Originally Posted by ExitRowAisle

Perhaps I missed this, but have these interpretations of the promotion rules actually been officially confirmed by AA or Citi? I don't recall credit card spending promos working like this in the past (posting dates trump spending dates), and it seems somewhat arbitrarily punitive to those who have an early-in-the-month posting date as those people will not get any credit for a lot of Christmas spending in December which will be replaced instead by stay-at-home, reduced spending in the second half of April. (And yes I realize this is the first time that AA has offered a LT million-miler promo since it made significant changes to the program years ago.)