Jul 29, 2023, 12:55 pm
Last edit by: ZenFlyer
As summarized in this Citi/AA press release, the benefits associated with this card changed on July 23, 2023. The new terms and conditions (T&Cs) can be found here.
10k Loyalty Point Bonuses
Reports on this thread to date suggest this benefit is being implemented in the following manner:
10k Loyalty Point Bonuses
Reports on this thread to date suggest this benefit is being implemented in the following manner:
- You are entitled to a 10k bonus if you surpass the 50k and/or 90k LP threshold by any means -- i.e. this is not limited to LPs earned by spend on your credit card. (For the current status year, it is still possible to earn a 10k bonus based on credit card spend -- see T&Cs for details.)
- You must meet, or have met, these thresholds sometime during the current status year. It does not matter if you were a cardholder at the time you crossed the threshold.
- Citi has not published any official information about when such 10k bonuses will post to your AA account
- Experience to date suggests that once cardholders have crossed the 50k or 90k LP threshold, posting of the bonus is triggered by either (a) the closing of your current statement, or (b) a flight or other LP-earning activity (e.g. shopping portal).
- In the case of (b) above, some bonuses are not posting correctly, and others have posted as being earned, but the points have not been added to people's balances.
- UPDATE: Many 10k bonuses posted beginning 7/31/23 without flight or other activity, and multiple users have reported corrections to their LP balances.
Citi AAdvantage Executive Card questions
Jul 11, 2023, 9:19 am
#211
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Jul 11, 2023, 10:10 am
#212
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My tentative plan is to maybe keep just my spouse as an AU for AC access when we're not travelling together. To still catch the spend of my other current AU's spend I plan to just add my card to their Apple Wallet.
Jul 11, 2023, 10:50 am
#213
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Three AUs will cost the same as one. Might as well max it out if you're going to pay up anyway...
Jul 11, 2023, 12:29 pm
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I couldn't find the original quote (may have been another thread) but someone speculated that they may be trying to "thin the herd". This makes sense to me given what I've read about some Clubs having long waiting lines and having personally encountered two at SEA that had stopped issuing day passes (I had a long layover and wanted one).
Sure there are some cases of a few AUs heavy hitting the clubs, but if they are flying that much, they aren't going to balk at giving their friend via Zelle a $175 thank you note or just picking up their own card. At the end of the day, its about the $$ to AA and Citi, not the lounge crowding.
Jul 11, 2023, 12:34 pm
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I kind of doubt that will happen, especially if the food/beverage becomes much nicer. My guess, is that the AC loses a good deal of casual travelers that use the club real occasionally, while being more attractive to very frequent travellers who currently are using AMEX and other lounge systems. If you lose 100 people that use the AC 4 times a year as casual AUs, it only takes 5 frequent flyers that now use the AC 80 times a year due to the better food/drink to balance that back out.
Sure there are some cases of a few AUs heavy hitting the clubs, but if they are flying that much, they aren't going to balk at giving their friend via Zelle a $175 thank you note or just picking up their own card. At the end of the day, its about the $$ to AA and Citi, not the lounge crowding.
Sure there are some cases of a few AUs heavy hitting the clubs, but if they are flying that much, they aren't going to balk at giving their friend via Zelle a $175 thank you note or just picking up their own card. At the end of the day, its about the $$ to AA and Citi, not the lounge crowding.
I also am starting to visit the Centurion Lounges over the ACs because they both have the same ambiance at this point, and the Centurion Lounge has better food.
It's clear they want to influence more spending on the card (as that is another money maker), but they haven't switched it over for me yet. I'd still rather earn 5x MR on my Amex Plat vs 4x AA
Last edited by S80; Jul 11, 2023 at 1:02 pm Reason: Fixed AA CC Earnings
Jul 11, 2023, 12:38 pm
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Jul 11, 2023, 12:41 pm
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Jul 11, 2023, 12:53 pm
#219
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It's clear they want to influence more spending on the card (as that is another money maker), but they haven't switched it over for me yet. I'd still rather earn 5x MR on my Amex Plat vs 4x AA LP on the Citi card, simply because of the outsized value of MR over AA miles (for my use case, long-haul biz (with a preference to try out new products on other airlines as well)).
Jul 11, 2023, 12:57 pm
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Jul 11, 2023, 1:01 pm
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Jul 11, 2023, 1:03 pm
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So, unless there is clear communication otherwise, my assumption is that the 4X on AA, the 10X on AA Hotels and AA cars are just for RDMs and not LPs. The card only helps with status with the 20K LP bonuses.
Jul 11, 2023, 1:13 pm
#224
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With all the cards (I think), there is only 1 LP per $. Any/all bonus miles are just RDMs. Like now, the 2x on AA flights gives you 2 RDM and 1 LP per $.
So, unless there is clear communication otherwise, my assumption is that the 4X on AA, the 10X on AA Hotels and AA cars are just for RDMs and not LPs. The card only helps with status with the 20K LP bonuses.
So, unless there is clear communication otherwise, my assumption is that the 4X on AA, the 10X on AA Hotels and AA cars are just for RDMs and not LPs. The card only helps with status with the 20K LP bonuses.
Jul 11, 2023, 1:55 pm
#225
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will probably switch most of my non-AA and non-bookAAhotels spending to a different card and use this one just for the 20k LP bonus and RDM bonuses for AA and bAAh. And for the travel insurance benefit and duh, the club.
So it's weird that the increased amenities at the club are coming (i would assume mostly) from Citi since I'd guess there are far more exec master card holders than plain old AC membership members.
So does Citi give AA a cut on the $ or pays for the enhanced bubbly and upgraded cheese cubes?
So it's weird that the increased amenities at the club are coming (i would assume mostly) from Citi since I'd guess there are far more exec master card holders than plain old AC membership members.
So does Citi give AA a cut on the $ or pays for the enhanced bubbly and upgraded cheese cubes?