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American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

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NoMoreDebt
Senior Contributor

American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/american-inks-new-credit-card-deal-with-citi-dropping-barclays-as-se... 

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SOCKDRAWER/ PAYPAL CREDIT LINE $1700/NFCU FLAGSHIP $40,000 CL/ NFCU MORE REWARDS $40,000/ WELLS FARGO AUTOGRAPH $8200/APPLE CARD $6500/DISCOVER IT $3000 SL/CITI COSTCO ANYWHERE VISA $6000 SL
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JoeRockhead
Senior Contributor

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

I imagine for those out there that aren't fans of Barclays, this is good news. 

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Snook_on_the_Line
Established Contributor

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

I just hope I can product change my AA card into another custom cash once it switches over to citi 

5% Gas: Citi Custom Cash 9.4k
5% Amazon: Chase Prime VS 15k
3% grocery and streaming: Cap1 Savor 2500
2% catch all: NFCU CashRewards+ 5k, USB Smartly 2k
Sock Drawer: Jovia Elite 25k, Suncoast CU 20k, Lowe’s 35k,
Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Red 3k, CreditOne 1k



^^^Fico8 scores as of Dec ‘24
Total Revolving CL: $118,900


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swankytiger
Frequent Contributor

AA transitioning to Citibank as their sole issuer

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/american-inks-new-credit-card-deal-with-citi-dropping-barclays-as-se...

 

Going to start transitioning cards to Citi in 2026. No real details at this time. I assume Aviator Red/silver > Platinum Select is gonna be the change.

 

So it looks like you have 1 year to get a Barclays Aviator card.

Main Card 1/6 1/12 9/24

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Snook_on_the_Line
Established Contributor

Re: AA transitioning to Citibank as their sole issuer

I got mine a couple months ago just for the SUB

 

i was planning on canceling it after spending the miles but now I'll hold onto it in hopes of PCing it into another Citi Custom Cash

5% Gas: Citi Custom Cash 9.4k
5% Amazon: Chase Prime VS 15k
3% grocery and streaming: Cap1 Savor 2500
2% catch all: NFCU CashRewards+ 5k, USB Smartly 2k
Sock Drawer: Jovia Elite 25k, Suncoast CU 20k, Lowe’s 35k,
Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Red 3k, CreditOne 1k



^^^Fico8 scores as of Dec ‘24
Total Revolving CL: $118,900


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MrDuck
Valued Member

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

Wonder what the signup bonuses might be for 2026?

 

Maybe a new lineup of cards for the changeover. I have an AA card already but wouldn't mind a nice refresh of benefits across the cards in 2026.

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cashorcharge
Community Leader
Super Contributor

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

Interesting nugget: "American said it would start transitioning its Barclays cardholders to Citi in 2026 but didn’t provide details."

 

What if you already have a Citi AA Card and the Barclays' AA Card?  Curious if Barclays will offer to PC me to another card they offer or if AA will make them move it to Citi and then I'll have 2 Citi Cards....combine them into 1 Citi card with an increased limit or shut one down. 

 

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CreditCuriosity
Moderator Emeritus

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

Need to remember to close my Barclays no AF AA card sometime next year so doesn't hinder my citi AA bonus in future.  Citi AA once elevated bonus comes back actually might be my next card as starting to get low on AA miles down to 50k.

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cashorcharge
Community Leader
Super Contributor

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

This morning I received this email from AA.

While it does mention Citi will reissue my Barclays Card....more details to come on what card I will be transitioned too.

Already holding the Executive Card from Citi and the Silver Aviator from Barclays....I can "hypothesis" that my Silver Barclays would become a Citi Platinum as the AF is similar thus leaving me with the Platinum and Executive....which would be useless.  Wondering if I can merge CL's into the Executive, giving up the 2nd card but retaining the $50K Credit Line from Barclays on top of the $41K Credit Limit with Citi today for a combined $91K with 1 card.  I don't know enough about Citi rules to determine if that's allowed or something they do or not.  Perhaps, once the migration is done...I would have the option to then PC that 2nd Citi card into a non-cobranded product.  Time will tell....

 

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Royalbacon
Frequent Contributor

Re: American Airlines chooses Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

I burned Citi in Chapter 7 BK in 2020, what is this going to mean for people like me?

Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Filed-September 2020 Discharged-December 2020
Kohl's Credit Card $3000 Limit (Opened October 2016) Survived Bankruptcy for whatever reason
Closed Capital One Venture One $3000 Limit (Opened December 2020, Closed by me September 2022 since I wanted the SavorOne and couldn't product change to it)
Capital One Auto Loan (Opened March 2021)
Capital One Cabela's $5000 Limit (Opened December 2021)
America First Credit Union Visa $1000 Limit (Opened December 2021)
Capital One SavorOne $5500 Limit (Opened September 2022)
Sam's Club Mastercard Synchrony Bank $2500 Limit (Opened March 30 2023) (Burned Synchrony in my CH7 BK, One card with a $745 balance)
Idaho Central Credit Union ICCU Visa $10,000 Limit (Opened April 2023)
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