Sep 28, 2019, 3:51 pm
Last edit by: JDiver
Archive Of ORIGINAL AAdvantage Aviator Silver and Red Cards from BarclayCard
FOR CURRENT THREAD SEE HERE.
NOTE: The BarclayCard
There are five AAdvantage-linked Aviator-branded cards by Barclaycard. An April 2015 article on The Points Guy details them.
The Many Flavors of Barclaycard AAdvantage Aviator (Jason Steele, April 13th, 2015).
Where can I see information on all available Barclays Barclaycard AAdvantage cards?
Barclaycard AAdvantageŽ AviatorŽ MastercardŽ
Barclaycard AAdvantageŽ AviatorŽ Blue MastercardŽ
Barclaycard AAdvantageŽ AviatorŽ Red MastercardŽ
Barclaycard AAdvantageŽ AviatorŽ Silver World Elite MastercardŽ
Barclaycard AAdvantageŽ AviatorŽ Business MastercardŽ
(These links are to aa.com pages for the respective Aviator cards)
Link to American AirlinesŽ AAdvantageŽ Aviator Red MasterCardŽ Reward Rules T&C (Feb 2017)
Link to American AirlinesŽ AAdvantageŽ Aviator Silver World Elite MasterCardŽ Reward Rules T&C (Feb 2017)
Link to FT thread Citi & Barclaycard AAdvantage Credit Card Free Domestic Checked Bag / Baggage
Aviator Red applications are available at the airport or in flight in 2017, or online at https://home.barclaycardus.com
New Red cardholders may apply to upgrade to Aviator Silver after 90 days. Existing Red cardholders (prior to 2017) may apply to upgrade to Silver at any time.
Aviator Silver offers EQM:
"Additional Benefits of your Account
Elite Qualifying Miles
The primary cardmember may earn 5,000 Elite Qualifying Miles ("EQMs") after spending $20,000 in Net Purchases that post to the AAdvantageŽ Aviator Silver account from January 1st through December 31st each calendar year. The primary cardmember may earn an additional 5,000 AAdvantageŽ EQMs each calendar year when the cardmember reaches $40,000 in spending on Net Purchases with the AAdvantage Aviator Silver account during the same period. An AAdvantageŽ Aviator Silver primary cardmember may earn the maximum 10,000 EQMs once per calendar year, unless the cardmember has already earned the maximum number of EQMs through another AAdvantageŽ Aviator Silver account. EQMs earned are in addition to the AAdvantage miles earned for Net Purchases made on the AAdvantageŽAviator Silver account. Net Purchases exclude returned goods and services, cash advances, convenience checks, transferred balances, credits, fees and interest charges. Net Purchases made by authorized users through additional cards on the primary cardmember's AAdvantageŽ Aviator Silver account will count toward the primary cardmember's qualifying spend. EQMs earned as a result of this benefit will typically be posted to the primary cardmember's AAdvantageŽ account 6-8 weeks after meeting the spend requirement. EQMs will not count toward Million Miler℠ status. EQMs cannot be redeemed for award travel, AAdvantageŽ miles or any other AAdvantageŽ program awards. EQMs earned with the AAdvantageŽ Aviator Silver account qualify toward the primary cardmember's AAdvantageŽ program elite status earning requirements each calendar year, subject to the limits under the Reward Rules and the AAdvantageŽ Program. Full details on elite status and qualifications are available in the AAdvantageŽ section of aa.com."
Both cards will offer spend offsets to the required Elite Qualifying Dollar spend in 2017.[/B]
Spend $25,000 or more on a Barclaycard-issued American AAdvantage Aviator Red credit card and earn 3,000 EQD.
Spend $25,000 on a Barclaycard-issued AAdvantage Aviator Silver credit card and earn an additional 3,000 EQD - a second $25,000 spend will earn another 3,000 EQD.
You can not hold both cards and combine earnings. You can notvearn more than $6,000 EQD spend offset in one year. Qualifying purchases are 1 Jan - 31 Dec of one year.
See EQ Dollar / EQD offset via Barclaycard Aviator Card announcement, details for further information.
and FAQ: Earning EQD / Elite Qualifying Dollars on AA and Partner Airlines (2017 on)
Spend $20,000 on your Silver card in one calendar year, earn 5,000 EQM; spend a total of $40,000 or more on your Silver card, earn 5,000 more EQM.
Above updated 16 Feb 2017 - JDiver
What are the benefits of the Aviator Silver card?
- Earn 3X miles for every dollar spent on eligible US Airways and American Airlines purchases
- Earn 2X miles for every dollar spent on hotels and car rentals
- Earn 1X miles for every dollar spent on all other purchases
- Earn 5,000 Elite Qualifying Miles for each $20,000 in annual purchases (10,000 maximum EQMs per year)
- First checked bag free for you and up to 8 companions traveling on the same reservation
- A Companion Certificate good for up to 2 guests at $99 each will be issued each year after your account anniversary when you spend $30,000 or more in purchases (taxes and fees apply)
- No foreign transaction fees
- Premium Servicing including US-based Customer Service, World Elite Concierge and Luxury Travel Benefits
- Receive 10% of your redeemed miles back, up to 10,000 miles each calendar year
- Apply for Global Entry with TSA PreCheck and, upon approval, experience expedited, more efficient security screenings, moving you smoothly through U.S. Customs when returning from traveling abroad. Pay for the $100 Global Entry application fee with your card and you'll automatically receive a $100 statement credit 2-3 weeks after your transaction.
- With this benefit, the primary cardmember can receive one application fee statement credit every 5 years when the Global Entry membership needs to be renewed.
According to the Aviator card FAQ,
Thus, this benefit
For additional information about the 10% rebate benefit, see FAQ: AAdvantage Citi / Barclays 10% miles / mileage rebate (consolidated)and the associated wiki.
For this benefit to apply, your account must be open and active at the time of redemption.
The American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles you will earn through this benefit will be based on 10% of the total AAdvantage miles you redeem each month during the calendar year. The maximum number of AAdvantageŽ bonus miles that can be earned annually from this benefit is 10,000 AAdvantage bonus miles per calendar year and per AAdvantageŽ account, regardless of how many AAdvantage miles you redeem in that calendar year.
This benefit only applies to AAdvantage miles redeemed from the primary Cardmembers AAdvantageŽ account. Please allow 6-8 weeks after your redemption for American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles to post to the primary Cardmembers AAdvantage account.
The American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles you will earn through this benefit will be based on 10% of the total AAdvantage miles you redeem each month during the calendar year. The maximum number of AAdvantageŽ bonus miles that can be earned annually from this benefit is 10,000 AAdvantage bonus miles per calendar year and per AAdvantageŽ account, regardless of how many AAdvantage miles you redeem in that calendar year.
This benefit only applies to AAdvantage miles redeemed from the primary Cardmembers AAdvantageŽ account. Please allow 6-8 weeks after your redemption for American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles to post to the primary Cardmembers AAdvantage account.
- applies to all miles redemptions, regardless of the passenger name on the airline ticket or other award.
- is limited to 10,000 miles in rebates per calendar year, regardless of how many Barclays and/or Citi AA cards you have.
For additional information about the 10% rebate benefit, see FAQ: AAdvantage Citi / Barclays 10% miles / mileage rebate (consolidated)and the associated wiki.
ARCHIVE: Barclaycard AAdvantage Aviator Silver and Red Cards
Jul 8, 2015, 9:16 am
#661
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: AVL
Programs: AA EXP ; Cunard Plat
Posts: 4,211
It's January 1 for a traveling companion of mine. He switched from Red Aviator to Silver recently, and total annual spending to date was enough to have 10k EQMs converted in his account about a week ago.
Jul 8, 2015, 9:25 am
#662
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Atlanta, GA
Programs: AA PLT, AS 75K, DL DM, HY Globalist, HH Diamond, MC/RZ/SW Platinum, AB/UA Silver, WN CP
Posts: 1,122
Jul 8, 2015, 4:11 pm
#663
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Near PHL, PA and GCM, CI and sometimes PLJ, Placencia. Belize
Programs: AA-EXP, DL-Gold, Bonvoy-Gold
Posts: 246
EQM requirement start is definitely Jan 1 2015
Spoke to a 10+ year Barclay's manager today (several step above who you normally get on the CS line - even the supervisors) and finally got confirmation that the US M/C, Red card, and Silver are all cumulative toward the EQM spend. Earlier in this thread, there were postings saying $$ didn't count until you were using the Silver, but I am assured that is not so. He said - "a calendar year is a calendar year - no matter which version of the product you have."
Thus, the EQMs have started to show up. ^
Thus, the EQMs have started to show up. ^
Jul 9, 2015, 1:23 pm
#664
Join Date: Sep 2011
Programs: US Chairman, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 90
Can Anybody Decipher These Two Entries On My AA Profile?
AVIATOR MC 5000 EQM 6/30/15
Mileage - 0
Bonus - 1
Total - 1
I received my Silver Card about 3 weeks ago and have far exceeded the spend this CY to qualify for the conversion (?)
Thanks for any interpretation.
Mileage - 0
Bonus - 1
Total - 1
I received my Silver Card about 3 weeks ago and have far exceeded the spend this CY to qualify for the conversion (?)
Thanks for any interpretation.
Jul 9, 2015, 2:30 pm
#665
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 3,529
This is just a line entry to show you received 5,000 elite qualifying miles (EQM) from Barclays, which are only good towards qualifying for the next status level.
Jul 9, 2015, 3:45 pm
#666
Moderator: American AAdvantage, Travel Safety/Security & Texas, FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: AUS / GRK
Programs: AA, HHonors, Hertz
Posts: 13,492
From the main page click on VIEW REWARDS (on the right side, has a picture of a present next to it).
Click on, "View my rewards activity." (toward the right)
Next I'm taken to a, "Benefits Tracker," page. There's a blue/gray horizontal thermometer, with blue (and a $$) indicating how much I've spent (the gray goes to $40k).
Underneath is the spend by month, back to April. But I know that my thermometer includes spend from prior (I've added it up). This is the total miles earned though, which will probably be different than the $$ to reach $20k or $40k, as you get additional miles for spending through AA/US, hotels, car rentals, etc.
Jul 9, 2015, 9:12 pm
#667
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: charlotte NC
Programs: AA EP
Posts: 573
New AAdvantage Aviator Silver and Red Cards from BarclayCard (US targeted)
Great find aztimm! And it has the calendar year as the current period. This is what they used to do with the US cards. So nothing changed from that perspective.
Jul 10, 2015, 5:00 am
#668
Join Date: Jun 2008
Programs: US Airways, American Airlines, United
Posts: 224
Thanks aztimm. You have provided great information as usual. I see that I have earned 5,000 EQM's from spending (I assume this will post to my AA account soon) which means the count started January 1.
Jul 10, 2015, 10:23 am
#669
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SEA
Programs: AS MVP , Delta Gold Medallion, "Credit Card" status for various hotels
Posts: 672
Activate the red aviator card a second time?
When I got the communication in early April that my Aviator red card would arrive in July, I called to receive it immediately because of some international travel. I activated it immediately and have been using it since.
Two weeks ago, I received an email that my new Aviator card was in the mail, and an activation screen popped up on my account page online. Last week, I received a second email that I need to activate my card.
So, I called about this and the CSR insisted that no card was in the mail and that I needed to activate the card I have been using for months again or risk having the card becoming inactive. This makes no sense to me, but went through with it. Now, the card continues to work, but transactions are not posting, even as pending. Anyone else have anything similar happen?
Two weeks ago, I received an email that my new Aviator card was in the mail, and an activation screen popped up on my account page online. Last week, I received a second email that I need to activate my card.
So, I called about this and the CSR insisted that no card was in the mail and that I needed to activate the card I have been using for months again or risk having the card becoming inactive. This makes no sense to me, but went through with it. Now, the card continues to work, but transactions are not posting, even as pending. Anyone else have anything similar happen?
Jul 10, 2015, 10:48 am
#670
Join Date: Jun 2012
Programs: Aadvantage
Posts: 74
So, I called about this and the CSR insisted that no card was in the mail and that I needed to activate the card I have been using for months again or risk having the card becoming inactive. This makes no sense to me, but went through with it. Now, the card continues to work, but transactions are not posting, even as pending. Anyone else have anything similar happen?
Jul 11, 2015, 11:13 pm
#671
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Sun Prairie, WI
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, HH Diamond, National Executive
Posts: 1,786
I had an issue where my silver card was sent which caused my red card not to work for a short time. A few transactions where denied while on a vacation. I called and the agent wasn't very helpful and somewhat rude. I said forget it and used another card. When I returned home my card was working. Today I got a letter in the mail saying I was given 5k miles for my trouble. Not bad.
Jul 12, 2015, 1:33 pm
#672
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 134
I had an issue where my silver card was sent which caused my red card not to work for a short time. A few transactions where denied while on a vacation. I called and the agent wasn't very helpful and somewhat rude. I said forget it and used another card. When I returned home my card was working. Today I got a letter in the mail saying I was given 5k miles for my trouble. Not bad.
Jul 15, 2015, 6:34 am
#673
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Michigan
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 503
Free Checked Bag
Are there any stipulations on the free checked bag benefit? I just received my converted Aviator Red card, and my wife and I have a previously booked award to Hawaii next month (booked with points ~10 months ago). It'd be great to get our bag fees covered, but we obviously didn't use this card to pay for the flights, and there's nothing linking the card and the itinerary at all. If we are eligible, do we get the fee waived simply by paying for it with this card and it'll be waived/refunded? TIA
Last edited by dajoip; Jul 15, 2015 at 6:58 am
Jul 15, 2015, 6:52 am
#674
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: On strike
Posts: 8,135
Are there any stipulations on the free checked bag benefit? I just received my converted Aviator Red card, and my wife and I have a previously booked award to Hawaii next month (booked with points ~10 months ago). It'd be great to get our bag fees covered, but we obviously didn't use this card to pay for the flights, and there's nothing linking the card and the itinerary at all. If we are eligible, do we get the fee waived simply by paying for it with this card and it'll be waived/refunded? TIA
Eligible primary cardmembers may check one bag free of charge when traveling to domestic destinations on flights marketed and operated by American Airlines, flights marketed by American Airlines and operated by American Eagle Airlines, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, Inc., ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., or Republic Airline Inc., US Airways or a US Airways Express carrier. These benefits will not be available for travel on codeshare flights booked with an American Airlines flight number but operated by another airline. For the benefits to apply, the Account must be open 7 days prior to air travel and the reservation must include the primary cardmember's American Airlines AAdvantageŽ number 7 days prior to air travel. Up to four passengers traveling with the eligible primary cardmember may each check one bag free of charge if they are listed in the same reservation. Overweight and oversized bags are not eligible. This benefit cannot be combined with any existing AAdvantageŽ Program benefits, including any waiver of baggage charges. Please see aa.com for baggage weight and size restrictions. If your Account is closed for any reason, these benefits will be cancelled. Additional terms, conditions and restrictions may apply. Terms and conditions are subject to change without notice.
Jul 15, 2015, 6:59 am
#675
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Michigan
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 503