Hi, Stefan,
Just saw this today - and wanted to add one thing and clarify: the best card for someone who wishes to accumulate many AA miles would be... the Starwood AMEX card, as one can get a 25% bonus when exchanging Starwood points for AAdvantage miles (and of course, they still get the AA miles.) (N.B. Please check the Starwood forum for the exact details of this program.)
(For me, I use the HHonors points a lot, so I like splitting my iDine "take" with 10 miles and 5 HH points per dollar.)
Originally Posted by
Stefan Daystrom
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So which card to use with AAdvantage Dining depends on what else you most want to earn. If your whole goal is to maximize AA miles, then you might want to use an AA-earning card (an AA credit card, a Starwood AMEX, or a Diners Club). But all those have annual fees (except an AA Citi Bronze, but that only earns 1 mile/2$), while the hotel cards don't, so if there's a hotel chain you already stay at and you just want to top off those points (or keep them from expiring, in the case of HHonors which expires after a year of no activity), then a hotel points card might be better for you, especially if your main goal with AA is simply to keep existing AA miles alive.