Use my AA credit card to buy brothers ticket, do I get double miles
Feb 24, 2016, 11:31 pm
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Use my AA credit card to buy brothers ticket, do I get double miles
My brother doesn't know how to use the Internet so I'm buying his plane ticket, do I get double AA miles with my citi aa card. Or are those double miles strictly for me..
Feb 24, 2016, 11:37 pm
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Yes. If u buy the tickets using ur credit card you will receive 2x the cost of the ticket (in miles). Citibank and Barclays doesn't care who the ticket is for -- just the purchase.
Feb 24, 2016, 11:43 pm
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Wow thx for the quick reply. It's even better that I'm buying for his whole family!!
Feb 24, 2016, 11:54 pm
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Of course, unless you have to buy the tickets in the next week or so, you might consider applying for a different credit card (or even a second Citi/AA card, if it's been at least 18 months since you last applied for one), and use the cost of all of those tickets to help meet the minimum-spend requirement to get the sign-up bonus on another card. The Chase Sapphire Preferred earns double points for all airline-ticket purchases; the Citi ThankYou Premier card earns triple points on such purchases.
Originally Posted by broncophil
Wow thx for the quick reply. It's even better that I'm buying for his whole family!!