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Old Feb 10, 2012 | 8:54 am
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bcl00
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Question Next Card Strategy - Looking for Suggestions

All,

I haven't browsed this forum much lately so I'm a little out of touch on the latest offers. The last Citi offer I did was the 2010 AA offers for 75k. I closed my cards and my wife's cards in 4/2011. I did the BA Visa from 4/1/2011 until 10/2011 to get 100k points.

My wife and I currently have a HHonors AMEX which I will always keep open since there is no fee and I'm always on the lookout for HHonors points. It's the card where I do the bulk of my spending due to AMEX customer service, gold status via 20k per year spend, and it's the card that keeps my average account length high. My wife currently has the Chase UA and CO cards (opened in 4/2011) which I think I should just close. I don't see the point of keeping them active since I'll be paying fees in April.

My current point balances are the following:

Me:

AA: 160k
BA: 103k
CO: 25k

Wife:

AA: 160k
CO: 100k

I've got all my 2011 personal travel planned (BOS-FCO-VCE-BOS in business on points thanks to CO! ) and may or may not do any significant personal travel in 2012 so I'm looking for maximum returns rather than rapid returns. I think I should try to boost our AA accounts to over 200k. Can someone help me with the current offers? I'm thinking I shouldn't open an AA card for less than 50k, maybe there will be another set of 75k offers we can jump on soon. I'm probably eligible since I closed out my AA cards in 4/2011.
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