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Old Jul 17, 2006 | 12:28 pm
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awake_at_midnight
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by CMHFlyerOH
Although, the advantage to the Citibank AA Debit Card is that you can earn 1 mile per $ on charges, whereas most other debit cards only provide 1 mile per 2$ spent.
Hmm... I use Citi as well. However I recently converted as follows:

AA Premium Debit Card --> Thank You Debit Card
AA World MasterCard --> Chairman Card

The reason?... If you have a Thank You Debit Card you get points just for having an account, i.e. as much 800 -1200 per month depending on your services with Citibank. I use my Chairman Card for all of my purchases. This gives me between 2 and 4 points per dollar (including flight point matching). Now I am getting 6,000 to 12,000 points per month. (This excludes all restaurants and hotel charges which go on a different card, i.e. HH AMEX)With the Citi AA program, I was only getting 2,000 to 4,000 points for the same spend.
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