Originally Posted by
freeflyin
We have been going back and forth on just this situation recently. Ultimately we decided to keep the card open for another year and pay the fee for the first time ever. Bag fees(losing status for 2019) and the 10K seem to make it a wash for now and we will reevaluate again next year. With any luck, Barclays will begin issuing fee waivers again by then.
In the past I didn't always get a fee waiver, but I always got
something-- usually a $1k/5k bonus. This year they offered absolutely nothing. And I have free bags from two other AA cards I have (one Citi, one Barclays Business) so there was no edge there for me.