Citi AA: now 40k, plus other offers as they appeared.[9.2011 - 5.2013]
 

NOTE: READ THE BELOW LINKED POST #2 FOR A VERY GOOD SET OF GUIDELINES ON CITI AA CARD APPLICATIONS.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/14386923-post2.html

Read post 1987 for a summary by sdsearch for guidelines as to what qualifies for statement credits

Expired, No landing page, but still working

2. 50K miles after $2500 spend in 4 mo personal (Note: no AC passes or statement credit; Thanks to FT member jeanie)
Personal VISA

Business Visa


3. Up to $150 statement credits for the eligible AA purchases made within 12 months of cardmembership, 45k miles after $5,000 in purchases within the first 4 months, 2 AC passes. (Thanks to FT member jeanie)

VISA
AMEX
Business VISA



DEAD:

$100 statement credit for the first eligible AA purchase made within 12 months of cardmembership, 50k AA miles after $3,000 in purchases within the first 4 months, 1 Companion Certificate after you become a cardmember. Fare classes are H, V, M, L, K, W, G, S, N, Q, or O per this post

Links:

AMEX
VISA


Terms & Conditions

i also received the exact offer in my email

This looks good if you can spend $3k in 4 months and $100 + companion certificate is worth 25,000 points (comparing making 75,000 points on the other cards to the 50,000 points on this card).

How much would you guys rate 25,000 points to be?

saacman5033, are you a current Citi AAdvantage card holder? do you know how you got targeted for this offer?

I got it too...

I got a scaled down offer.

- No $100 off
- 40K after 2000 spent in 4 months

rest same.

For someone who uses AA miles for domestic coach awards, I'd say this offer looks superior to the 75k offers. The companion cert is comparable to the extra 25k in that case and the $100 makes the difference.

I value my points on the order of $0.015 ea so say $375 for 25k. This deal looks especially intriguing for residents of Hawaii and Alaska as the companion cert will be more valuable.

I am a current citi business card holder but have not been a personal cardholder since I cancelled my last 2 last month.

I got the American Business Visa Offer until 10/31

$50 statement credit

No Annual Fee

40K for $1000 in 4 months


10K additional for spending 5K in 6 months.



I got turned down last year on the 75K offer as they said I was a previous cardholder, I'm going to try again next month as I'm not sure if I ever had a AA Business Visa .

Thanks for the answer! I wonder if I can use your links and hope to get the business card. Couldn't one use the companion certificate and fly to Hawaii making it the same value as one who lives there?

I would think that using these links would be no different than the links in the 75k thread. I would still refer to the excellent guide maintained by jcmitchell21 in that thread if applying for one (or more) of these offers.

As for the companion cert, I interpret their use of "domestic" to mean only within the lower 48, especially since they make special mention to Alaska and Hawaii.

I'd be very skeptical about the companion cert, until all the details are revealed.
In the past, the conditions on similar companion certs have made them close to worthless. For example, they may require more expensive booking classes (H V M L K or W) that mean that two cheaper class tickets end up being about the same price.

At least in the OP's email, he wrote:

* Receive One Companion Certificate after you become a cardmember. Use your Citi® / AAdvantage® card to purchase a domestic roundtrip coach fare on American Airlines and two fly for the price of one — no minimum fare restrictions apply

Looks like no minimum fare restrictions on the companion certificate... Wonder if Hawaii counts as domestic? ;)

The note in the email said no minimum fare restrictions apply but I am still a bit skeptical as well. I'm expecting to make my next set of applications in the second week of OCT so I'll be trying to get AA to give me a disclosure of the companion cert terms by then.

never mind. 50K bonus.

I thought the links were from the email offer you received, which would be tied to this offer.

Yes, the links are from the email offer I received. Same thing goes for the links in the 75k thread (though the links there did not come from me), they are links originally targeted through email. This is the reason there is no landing page for these offers as the email serves as the landing page.

Yeah, but there's a difference between "no minimum fare" and "no class restrictions".

Here's a T&C from a 2010 version of the cert:
http://www.aa.com/content/images/eSu..._V06_Legal.htm

If they've just dropped the fare restriction, you still have cases where, for example, the cheapest fare is an S or Q fare at $198 roundtrip, and the cheapest HVMLKW fare is $459.

I had seen that link as well and it's interesting to note that those terms and conditions were very specific on the eligible fare buckets while this one had no mention of fare buckets. As mentioned, I am skeptical but also optimistic at the lack of mention of fare buckets.

I have opened dialogue with AA on this and will report back when I get more details.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you said. I thought you said your links were the same as jcmitchell21's links (as in your links were for the 75,000 points). I see now that you meant I should be able to use your links just like I was able to use jcmitchell21's links.

Another possibility. I received this link via snail mail sometime during the past 3 weeks while I was away. Not sure if it’s targeted.

Citi AA Visa Business 35000/$1000 in 4 months, 10000 more/5000 in 6 months, no fee first year/one $50 credit with AA purchase https://creditcards.citicards.com/us...8CA1A23E097B1D

Well, no further details to report... I basically got the run around with AA and Citi with AA finally telling me that they have no access to the certificates and that I will just have to wait til I get my cert to see the terms. Anyway, just got back from a long trip and was hoping to apply for one of this offer and one of the 75k but I will instead be applying for two of these tomorrow.

http://creditcards.citicards.com/usc...2EC5921A2B2AED


Here is a link for 50K miles with $2,500 spend in 4 months for Visa, Amex, Biz. This came from Million Mile Secrets. What a great blog.

I Would like to know if somebody has used the link mentioned in Post #1, (without receiving himself the offer), applied for any of the cards (I am interested in the business card) and received the miles and other benefits. Since the 75,000 miles link is now dead, this is the best offer I've seen. Please let me know if any have success with this link.

These have a couple Admirals club day passes too.

Agreed, unless you were still shooting for million miler status.

So if I already applied for the 75k offer with a Visa, is there any chance of me applying for the American Express offer with this link and getting the bonus 50k?

It depends on when you applied for that Visa. For this offer I would say all general advice in jcmitchell21's famous "Post #2" would apply.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/14386923-post2.html

Bummer. Applied back in January. Sound like I'm out of luck?

Well, I just received denials on both apps for this card. It had only been 15 months since my last apps but I was hoping I would be one of the lucky ones to get in earlier than 18 months seeing as I received this offer. Anyway, if anyone else applies for this offer, let us know if there are any terms on the certificate not mentioned in the linked T&C.

Here's one that looks open to everyone:

http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/ea...t/citiVisa.jsp

40K points (30K @ $750 spend in 4 months 10K more @ $5K spend in 6 months)
$100 statement credit
2X points earned @ AA

I received (via snail mail) an interesting variation on the offers the others posted earlier:

Citi Gold AAdvantage Visa Signature

1.) 35,000 AAdvantage miles after $1,000 spend in 4 months
2.) 10,000 AAdvantage miles upon renewing card at 1-yr. anniversary
3.) 3x miles on all American Airlines purchases for 12 months
4.) 2 One-Day AC Passes
5.) One-Time $100 statement credit on the first American Airlines purchase
6.) Waived $50 annual fee for first year

Seems targeted, but I'll try to find if this is available online.

Has anyone applied for the original links in this thread, to see if they are targeted or not?

50K miles, $100 credit, and a companion ticket makes a pretty good deal for a $3K spend.

I missed out on the Business card under the 75K offers. I was going to pull the trigger on this one if we can get confirmation that somebody has been successful with it.

I just applied for the business card. I didn't get an instant approval, so I'll have to update later. I got one of the personal 75K cards in May, and have a legit tiny, but established, sole proprietorship.

Lots of good info in this thread, especially the link to Million Mile Secrets - great blog. Thanks to all.

Did the double browser trick for my gf (50k x 2), she was instantly approved for both. However, I was eventually denied due to "too many recent inquiries". Within the last few weeks:

Chase Sapphire 50k: approved
US Airways 40k: approved
AMEX SPG : declined, need to call
*also financed a new car, so that was 1-2 hits


I called the Citi reconsideration line (Philippines, I'm guessing..) and responded by saying I use this cards mostly for business and will start to fly AA more for business (both true). Still a no go. Obviously I'm calling separately for both the Visa and AMEX, but I'm wondering if I should keep calling or just wait a couple of months to try again if the deal is still around?

I hear Citi is tough for reconsideration. I have no cards with Citi yet aproxx. 22K in lines at Chase....give me something, Citi!

Technically this is a targeted offer, but the 75k links were also targeted. Really wish I could have reported success with my app, but hopefully others will be successfully approved. If you apply, let us know what the companion cert looks like.

Thanks for the link.

I applied for a personal AA card in July 2011 for the 75k. Got approved, and I just now I applied for this card using this link, but I didn't get an instant approval. I called 1-866-606-2961, and they said since I already have 5 credit cards with Citi and have reached the maximum credit limit per user, they could only approve this application with a starting limit of just $1k.

I asked to shift some of the credit from my personal accounts over, and the rep said he can't do that since the business line is separated.

But I was just happy that I got approved for a business card without having to provide any additional information about my sole proprietorship.

You applied for Business card only and didn't try personal, right?

Wow, you're doing well. I have just one Citi CC (Amex) and they refused a second card (since Amex isn't accepted everywhere, I applied for a Visa) saying I was no longer a first-time applicant. Technically true but certainly does not comport with many others' experience around here! My credit rating hovers around 800 and I have no debt.

Worse, it's turning out to be a colossal struggle to get the miles I was promised. First, I'm supposed to get double miles for AA flight purchases--nope, nothing. I ordered stuff I didn't need from Nordstrom's just for fun since they were offering 10mi/$ and the stuff arrived quickly but no miles. I contacted Nordstroms and they said they'd investigate but nothing came of it. Sure, I can keep pursuing it but the cost per mile is adding up since time isn't free.

Meanwhile, I achieved the $2500 required spend for the 50K bonus on this card seven weeks ago and have yet to see any sign that the miles might be forthcoming. The fine print does read '8 to 10 weeks' on that so who knows. But I was also supposed to get two Admirals Club passes and never did.

In fact, all I've gotten on this AA card in nearly three months is the normal one mile per dollar charged. Exception: Overstock.com did come through with the mileage bonus they promised, almost instantly, and kept me apprised by email of the progress ^

Now I'm contemplating a $31K charge for a cruise and would love to get a mileage bonus from someone for it. I previously had a Chase Visa so that's out.

If any of you mileage mavens can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or point me to a productive source of help at AA, I'd greatly appreciate it!

I'm sorry I forgot to mention that it was a Business card that I applied for. I didn't try Personal because I already got approved for a personal Visa during the 75k drive. So I was afraid that I would get denied for another personal card.

$2,500 spending requirement within 4 months isn't too bad though.

Marsen, I was also denied of a second personal card back in July, even though I applied for both the Visa and Amex on the same day, within a few hours of each application however.

Thanks for responding. But you have (or had) six cards in all, right? That's way ahead of me! They'll only let me have the one. And the bigger problem is getting miles credited. I've stopped using the card--what's the point, if they're not going to credit the miles I've earned?

Who knows, maybe they will in a couple more months, but imho the business model is faulty. Crediting the miles properly would be a more powerful impetus toward continued use of the card on the part of customers. Then Citibank would make more money.

I don't discount or dismiss the successful reports from many other contributors here, but I will say that mileage varies http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ile_tongue.gif

I've got 4 cards here, but the 4th was difficult to get with me having to move around credit lines from the Amex/visa to the world elite.