Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
Did US Airways have BofA and Barclays cards? I am fairly certain I had a US Airways Aviator card at one point, and those still live on as AA Aviator cards from Barclays..
US Airways based in CLT had BofA as their card
They got swallowed by a smaller airline - America West - which had Barclays
The 2 cards hung around in 2008-2009 until BofA got booted out. You could get 10k EQM for each 25k spend on 4 cards = gave Star Gold at that time, while collecting 4 sign up bonuses too.
It was easy to hit 100k EQM = Chairman on US - gave free award cancels which was only given to top tier elites then.
That and track it back promo - millions of US miles @ 0.4c each
- made a ton of cancelable LH F bookings for 160k miles to Asia months ahead and took only the last minute desired options
Then history repeated itself
During AA bankruptcy filing (that was delayed for 5 -6 yrs compared to DL) - when everyone else was recovering from the Great Recession, a smaller airline (US/AW) swallowed AA due to labor unions which did not want their own turn around plan with Horton (known devil to them) and believed US (unknown devil) was better to live with.
Barclays was not big enough to take on the AA cards alone, so both banks hung together for next 10 yrs
Now Citi is back in sole control