Originally Posted by
Hawkeyefan
The last 2-3 years I got notice of my cert mid February with deposit by the end of the month.
The Aspire card only debuted around January 2018, so if your anniversary date is in March, that means you are only on your second anniversary of the Aspire card! So you must confusing something if you think you got something "the last 2-3 years" with the Aspire card yet not this year, because you could have only had one anniversary prior to this year.
Are you perhaps confusing it with the Citi Hilton Reserve card which had a similar free weekend night cert, and existed before the January 2018 absorption of Citi HH cards into Amex?
Everyone else has been getting their Aspire free night cert a month or two after their renewal date.
I never had a Citi HH Reserve card so I don't know what that card's timing may have been.