Just throwing this out there because I was unaware of this. When you get the prestige you can (or at leats used to be able to) sign up for a citi gold account and get a bonus 40k citi ty points. I'm being told that apparently the TY points from the prestige card are not the same as from the citigold account and that you can not transfer the citigold ty points to an airline partner like you can with the prestige or premier ty points. Obviously this is somewhat of a blow to my plans and could have been made clearer to me in the branch when I was jumping through hoops to open the account. You can still redeem for AA fare at the 1.6 per point which is a worthwhile redemption, but not what I was shooting for.
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@red259 wrote:Just throwing this out there because I was unaware of this. When you get the prestige you can (or at leats used to be able to) sign up for a citi gold account and get a bonus 40k citi ty points. I'm being told that apparently the TY points from the prestige card are not the same as from the citigold account and that you can not transfer the citigold ty points to an airline partner like you can with the prestige or premier ty points. Obviously this is somewhat of a blow to my plans and could have been made clearer to me in the branch when I was jumping through hoops to open the account. You can still redeem for AA fare at the 1.6 per point which is a worthwhile redemption, but not what I was shooting for.
Who told you this? I was under the impression that the 40K TY points from Citigold were going to have the same redemption value as the Prestige ones. JSUCool76 knows all about this proggram.
What are you trying to do with the points?
A travel board and then I saw it on a travel blog as well. I wanted to use them towards Signapore airlines redemption. There is a signapore redemption for first class from LAX to Tokyo that I want, so if I did that I would still need a flight from NY to LA and the TY points from the bank account redeemed on AA could come in handy there.
@Anonymous wrote:
@red259 wrote:Just throwing this out there because I was unaware of this. When you get the prestige you can (or at leats used to be able to) sign up for a citi gold account and get a bonus 40k citi ty points. I'm being told that apparently the TY points from the prestige card are not the same as from the citigold account and that you can not transfer the citigold ty points to an airline partner like you can with the prestige or premier ty points. Obviously this is somewhat of a blow to my plans and could have been made clearer to me in the branch when I was jumping through hoops to open the account. You can still redeem for AA fare at the 1.6 per point which is a worthwhile redemption, but not what I was shooting for.
Yes, this is true, You can also redeem for travel credit at 1.25%
Ill sit on the points before throwing them away on a 1.25% redemption.
@red259 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@red259 wrote:Just throwing this out there because I was unaware of this. When you get the prestige you can (or at leats used to be able to) sign up for a citi gold account and get a bonus 40k citi ty points. I'm being told that apparently the TY points from the prestige card are not the same as from the citigold account and that you can not transfer the citigold ty points to an airline partner like you can with the prestige or premier ty points. Obviously this is somewhat of a blow to my plans and could have been made clearer to me in the branch when I was jumping through hoops to open the account. You can still redeem for AA fare at the 1.6 per point which is a worthwhile redemption, but not what I was shooting for.
Yes, this is true, You can also redeem for travel credit at 1.25%
Ill sit on the points before throwing them away on a 1.25% redemption.
They expire. 
@Anonymous wrote:
@red259 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@red259 wrote:Just throwing this out there because I was unaware of this. When you get the prestige you can (or at leats used to be able to) sign up for a citi gold account and get a bonus 40k citi ty points. I'm being told that apparently the TY points from the prestige card are not the same as from the citigold account and that you can not transfer the citigold ty points to an airline partner like you can with the prestige or premier ty points. Obviously this is somewhat of a blow to my plans and could have been made clearer to me in the branch when I was jumping through hoops to open the account. You can still redeem for AA fare at the 1.6 per point which is a worthwhile redemption, but not what I was shooting for.
Yes, this is true, You can also redeem for travel credit at 1.25%
Ill sit on the points before throwing them away on a 1.25% redemption.
What's wrong with maxing their potential and using them on AA?
That is what I am talking about. When you redeem with AA you get 1.6%. What I am saying is I will not redeem for travel expenses at 1.25%, instead I will just save them for when I need an AA flight.