1) I'd like to see discussion of Exec offers continue to be separate from the first-year-free Citi AA offers. Many of us (a majority? hard to say) don't bother with the Exec card because of the high annual fee. Yes, there are ways to avoid the fee, mostly involving MS; again, a lot of us aren't interested in that & would prefer that such discussion take place in a separate thread.

2) I don't see how it's possible, especially in the present environment--with Citi having rolled out new offers with terms/restrictions different from those in the past--to separate the application process from individual offers. IMO any such attempt will result in multiple threads with a high degree of overlap. That seems to me very inefficient.

3) Yes, I would keep the AA cards separate from other Citi co-branded cards. Reasons include

• People have different interests/needs. Someone who wants only to accumulate HH points shouldn't have to wade through all the discussion on AA cards.
• The AA master thread already covers a huge amount of ground & has a voluminous wiki. Expanding the thread's charter seems likely to make focused discussion even harder.

It's true that there are some commonalities across Citi cards, such as the 8/65-day rule. IMO that isn't reason enough to combine threads, when the basic principles can be replicated in (or linked to from) the wiki in each thread.


In sum, I'm something of a conservative on these issues. Although the current setup is a bit, er, idiosyncratic, a lot of that seems to me driven by the combination of Citi's odd (& ever-changing) policies and the different interests/needs of different FTer cohorts. Unless someone can identify specific ways in which the current regime is broken, I'm against efforts for a generalized fix, especially right now when Citi's policies seem to be more in flux than usual.

That said, I do find it a bit odd that there's a general thread for Citi retention offers (incl. on AA cards) and a separate thread in the AA forum specific to AA cards. IMO there's every reason to fold the latter into the global Citi retention thread.