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Citi Executive AA MasterCard [October 2013 - September 2014]

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For questions NOT related to the application process - such as experiences using benefits - refer to the AA forum thread on this card: AA Citibank Executive / AAdvantage World Elite MasterCard (Master Thread)

Recommended Application Procedure:
Clear cache and cookies prior to applying or use an incognito or private browsing session to apply. Opening multiple different apps in different windows or tabs or failing to clear cookies/cache has resulted in people receiving a lesser offer for some Citi cards. [B]We do not know, and Citi has not indicated, how long these offers will last. Citi has left other offers alive for over a year beyond the 'apply by' date in the past. These links could be here all year or gone tomorrow. If the application loads, it is good, based on past Citi applications that survived past the landing page expiration, regardless of any posted or advertised 'apply by' date.

MOST CURRENT LINKS:

As of 8/19/14, the 60K+ links are no longer working, and give the following error:
A system error has caused a delay in processing your application. Please try again later.

[This link stopped working for a few days in July but seems to be working again] Many thanks to LM225 - Citi AA Executive Personal Mastercard, 100,000 miles after $10,000 spend in 3 months, Admirals Club access for cardholder and family or cardholder and two guests, up to $200 in statement credits. $450 annual fee, not waived. Landing page no longer loads as of 6/24.


The landing page asks for a first and last name but the application loads with or without the landing page. This is a CHIP and Signature card. If you go through the landing page, please use any referral code given to you by an AC rep.

For alternate 100K links, see Post #6084. https://www.citicards.com/cards/acq/...&screenID=3001

Many thanks to lobo411 - Citi AA Executive Personal Mastercard, 75,000 miles after $7500 spend in 3 months, Admirals Club access for cardholder and family or cardholder and two guests, up to $100 in statement credits. $450 annual fee, not waived. No landing page. This is a CHIP and Signature card. Bonus confirmed in posts 136 and 142. Still working: There is also a public version of this offer Citi AA Mastercard, 75,000 miles, Landing page available here. HT Belllaaa.

Many thanks to cerealmarketer - Citi AA Executive Personal Mastercard, 60,000 miles after $5k spend in 3 months, Admirals Club access for cardholder and family or cardholder and two guests. $450 annual fee, not waived. Landing page available here. This is a CHIP and Signature card. Landing page for 60K for $5K, with $100 statement credit and application.

Current 50K public offer: (Be carefull this link is showing as 30k in citi system, use other link for 50k) Landing page for 50K for $5K spending, no statement credit and application.

New 50k offer:
Landing page for New 50K for $5K spending, no statement credit - Application Link WARNING: This landing page contains the following in the Footnotes: "American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles are not available if you have had a Citi Executive® / AAdvantage® World EliteTM MasterCard® opened or closed in the past 18 months." But the app link directly following it goes to a totally different app page, which is reported to be working as usual.


EXPEDITED SHIPPING
While reconsideration/application reps do not seem to be aware of this, these cards are expedited and usually arrive 1-2 days after approval.The CSR will not take a request to expedite the card.

Who is eligible for this card? Anyone as long as you can be approved for the minimum $5K credit line, subject to the standard Citi rules of 1 Citi app or card of any kind per 8 days and 2 Citi cards or apps of any kind per 65 days. It is always advisable to wait 65 days from any type of Citi denial before applying for another Citi card. Many have reported getting approved for this card in spite of having several open AA cards over the past year as well as having previously had this card.

Not sure about the 8 and 65 day rules? If your most recent application for any Citi card is less than click here - 8 days ago, you need to wait. Also, if your previous (second-to-last) Citi application is less than click here - 65 days ago, you need to wait. These are not rules published or known by Citi CSRs but rather based on thousands of Citi card applications and datapoints across several threads.

This card can be churned. Recent datapoints concerning multiple Executive cards include posts 917, 1059 and starting at 1365. For in-depth datapoints and advice on churning Citi cards, read and study the extensive wiki posts in the HH thread and the AA Plat/gold thread. Click the plus on the right hand side of the wiki if you do not see the wiki text. Datapoints for bonus points posting on multiple cards include post 2579.


Getting around the $450 annual fee: Some have been able to meet the spending requirement before the first statement posts and then cancel and have the fee refunded after the miles post. Details and datapoints include starting at post 74. T&C state that the card must be cancelled within 30 days of the fee posting to get it refunded. Potential problems with this plans include a very short (1 week or less) first "month" as well as delays in miles posting which have been reported by several FTers here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...ost-first.html. YMMV. If paying $250-$450 for a year's access to Admirals Clubs and the 60K-100K miles is a deal breaker, this card may not be for you.

Once you cancel the card (within the 37 day window of AF posting) the refund will post on the account between 1-3 business days.

Retention Bonus Offers: User have been offered the following retention bonus offers when calling to cancel the card:

- 5,000 points + $100 credit with $1,500 spend per month for 3 months 5333
- 2 additional club member passes 6862
- 1,000 bonus miles each month for 16 month, min $1k spend/month 6862

Already a member? If you already purchased an AC membership (for example, using the credit from Amex Plat) and apply and are approved for this card, AA will refund you the pro-rated AF from any time left on your membership.

When do miles post? Usually a few days after your statement closes. In some cases your statement will show the correct miles earned but will show 0 miles reported to AA. In this case see this thread.

Please post more experiences about cancelling to avoid the $450 fee


Helpful points from post #3794 and others, especially for those new to Citi:
1) Citi CSRs are clueless, so disregard everything they say that seems to contradict anything you have read on F/T. And take everything else with a big grain of salt. I was told 3 times VERY CLEARLY "You will not got your annual fee refunded" while I was cancelling, but I did get it.

2a) With Citi, if you are approved for a card, and meet the minimum spend requirement, you will get the bonus listed for the offer you applied for. Every time ! Unlike Chase or AMEX, who will send you a card, wait for you to pay the fee and spend, and then say "sorry, you don't qualify for a bonus". If Citi doesn't intend to give you the bonus, they will just deny your app. They won't even do a pull, they will just instantly deny your app. If they send you the card, and you meet the spend on time, you will get the bonus. My attorney insists I add "that could change tomorrow", but from the Big Bang thru today, that has always been true.

2b) Another helpful post discussing timeframe for meeting min spend: 6279

3) Any expectation that Citi will do things that make sense is just plain silly. They won't.

Citibank Contacts/Resources
  • Application status: https://www.accountonline.com/cards/...?screenID=3187
  • (800) 695-5171 – Personal Application Status and Reconsideration Line with live rep
  • (800) 763-9795 – General Personal Application Inquiries with live rep
  • (866) 606-2787 – General Application and Account Questions with live rep
  • (888) 201-4523 – Application status
  • (866) 606-2961 – Reconsideration Line.
  • Twitter : @AskCiti. Very powerful tool.
  • Executive Office - useful for getting a more empowered agent for reconsideration purposes: CitiBank Executive Review Department, P.O. Box 6000, Sioux Falls, SD 57117
Admiral Club Access: You do not need to be flying AA that particular day of travel. (Ex: you're flying DL on the day of travel...you could still enter the AC lounge, even though you're not on an AA flight that day.) Beware, though, that individual lounges have individual rules (see the link below). Alternate rules usually come w/ Qantas lounges, not AA lounges. Furthermore, AC access "comes with" US Air access (19 locations). An authorized user does not have AC access unless they are with the primary card holder. The authorized user's card will have the "Admiral Club" language omitted from the back of their card.

For reference, an AC lounge list: http://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInforma...#admirals-club
For questions and discussions on lounge access: Help Desk: Lounge Access and Lounge Access Rules

$200 Statement Credit on any purchase:

Multiple datapoints within this thread as well as multiple confirmations from CSRs say that the $200 statement credit is for any purchase.

Also, please note that these cards do not include the 10% miles rebate offered by some other Citi AA products.

What about the EQM? AA tracks your miles earned on Executive card(s) and adds 10K Elite Qualifying Miles to your EQM balance once you earn 40,000 miles during a calendar year on Executive card(s). Any number of Executive cards can add up to the 40K, and you cannot earn more than 10K EQM each year. No redeemable miles are added, and this is of no consequence or value unless you will also earn at least 15K additional EQM in a given year by flying and 10K will bump you up to the next status level.

Direct phone number to Citi Fraud Prevention department: +18664705331

Concierge service enrollment (allows for electronic requests). Concierge number is +18778812668

Here are the minimum credit limit required amounts in order to keep an account open (for purposes of new card applications and reconsiderations)
Citi Amex 1k (likely citi gold as well)
Citi Visa signature/world MasterCard 3k
Citi World elite Mastercards (including exec) 5k


Advice to those new to citi American Airlines cards,

If you are just starting out please apply and use the lower level citi AA card for a while before moving on to this thread and card. This will help you in the long run in more ways than one. Most of us here have opened and used lower level AA cards before moving on to this thread and card
Also,
Check out this thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/citi-...ost-first.html
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Citi Executive AA MasterCard [October 2013 - September 2014]

Old May 5, 2014, 1:12 pm
  #5356  
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
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Originally Posted by thepaul500
I did exactly this when this offer first started.
Good to know, thanks.
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Old May 5, 2014, 1:20 pm
  #5357  
 
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[QUOTE=mh1361;22814216] If I apply for the Citi AA card with the 50k offer, can I apply for an executive card 8 days later? QUOTE]

(With a few exceptions, such as getting a targeted offer, of having too many CB inquiries, this is the answer):

It is very simple. If you haven't applied for an AA card in the past 18 months or so, you can apply for an AA Plat card, then you can apply for an Exec cc 8 days later.

If you apply for an Exec cc first, you cannot get the Plat for at least 18 months after that.


So if you want one of each, or one Plat and many Execs, you have to apply for the Plat first.

One reason for doing this is to get the 10% rebate on miles used for awards. But consider, you can only get 10K miles in rebates per year. So if you get the Plat card, it will take 5 years of rebates to equal the additional bonus miles you will get right away if you only apply for two Exec ccs 8 days apart and just forget about the Plat cc. But you don't have to worry about the cc fee of $250, or $150 if you get a retention bonus, on the Exec. And you don't have to meet such a high spend on the Plat.
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Old May 5, 2014, 1:37 pm
  #5358  
 
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Originally Posted by ibleed0range
Maybe for you....I didn't pay any giftcard fees or anything to liquidate.
I'm guessing you avoided the gift card and BP fees by simply using the card for regular spend? And sure I could have done that too, if we as a couple got just one Exec card. But since we each got two, that made the combined spend $40K. And the Exec is not the only cc we got recently. We also each picked up second cards of SPG and PRG, to avoid the rumored May 1st "once in a lifetime" new rule. So that's another $14K of combined min spnd. Next we are hoping to each get two more Exec ccs before the offer possibly ends May 31st.

There is just no way for us to cover $94K in spend in a four month period by sticking to "free" regular spend.
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Old May 5, 2014, 2:10 pm
  #5359  
 
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[QUOTE=Brugge;22814372]
Originally Posted by mh1361
If I apply for the Citi AA card with the 50k offer, can I apply for an executive card 8 days later? QUOTE]

(With a few exceptions, such as getting a targeted offer, of having too many CB inquiries, this is the answer):

It is very simple. If you haven't applied for an AA card in the past 18 months or so, you can apply for an AA Plat card, then you can apply for an Exec cc 8 days later.

If you apply for an Exec cc first, you cannot get the Plat for at least 18 months after that.


So if you want one of each, or one Plat and many Execs, you have to apply for the Plat first.

One reason for doing this is to get the 10% rebate on miles used for awards. But consider, you can only get 10K miles in rebates per year. So if you get the Plat card, it will take 5 years of rebates to equal the additional bonus miles you will get right away if you only apply for two Exec ccs 8 days apart and just forget about the Plat cc. But you don't have to worry about the cc fee of $250, or $150 if you get a retention bonus, on the Exec. And you don't have to meet such a high spend on the Plat.
Thanks for responding. My main concern is the spend at this point. So far I've only done online credit card loads for Serve, and I've purchased two OneVanilla cards, and loaded one to my Serve account at WM. I'd like to get more acclimated to MF before taking on a 10k spend, esp if I try to cancel the card after the 1st billing period to avoid the AF. I'm also not really in a place where I can handle having 5k get frozen in my Serve account or something of the sort.
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Old May 5, 2014, 4:57 pm
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[QUOTE=mh1361;22814637]
Originally Posted by Brugge

Thanks for responding. My main concern is the spend at this point. So far I've only done online credit card loads for Serve, and I've purchased two OneVanilla cards, and loaded one to my Serve account at WM. I'd like to get more acclimated to MF before taking on a 10k spend, esp if I try to cancel the card after the 1st billing period to avoid the AF. I'm also not really in a place where I can handle having 5k get frozen in my Serve account or something of the sort.
Totally understandable. So apply for the Plat now, and you have the rest of the month to see if you get more comfortable with MS. If you do, you can apply for the Exec. If not, you don't need to worry about it. Most of us started out slow, and learned as we went along. That way you are less likely to make a major mistake. There will be other cc offers that come along. And for all that we know, Citi may extend this one for many months.

Personally, I'm glad I don't have major MS to do right now. WM is in the process of changing their BP system a bit, and many of the cashiers don't quite understand how the new system works. Hopefully they'll have it all figured out by the time my wife and I are able to apply for new Exec cards.
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Old May 5, 2014, 5:13 pm
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This might be a stupid question but those who are churning cards:
Are you managing all these accounts under the same citicards account? i.e - 1 username and it shows all your citi AA Exec cards?
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Old May 5, 2014, 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by unkn0wns0ldier
This might be a stupid question but those who are churning cards:
Are you managing all these accounts under the same citicards account? i.e - 1 username and it shows all your citi AA Exec cards?
I was until my wife's online account wouldn't let me link any more cards, so we started a second one for her.
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Old May 5, 2014, 5:43 pm
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Originally Posted by KennyBSAT
I was until my wife's online account wouldn't let me link any more cards, so we started a second one for her.
how many did that take?
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Old May 5, 2014, 5:52 pm
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Originally Posted by FTRox87
how many did that take?
There were 8 or 9 at the time, and a checking account. I don't know why but that login started to act buggy and wouldn't let us add another card.
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Old May 5, 2014, 6:20 pm
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Originally Posted by unkn0wns0ldier
This might be a stupid question but those who are churning cards:
Are you managing all these accounts under the same citicards account? i.e - 1 username and it shows all your citi AA Exec cards?
Why not? No need to try to hide anything; as if you could.

Multiple posts here about people applying for another Exec card, and the Recon CSR says "I see you have (X number) Exec cards. I would be happy to approve you for another."

They know, they don't care. If they cared, as they for some reason do with the AA Plat card, they wouldn't give us more cards. Right now, and it could end anytime, they WANT to give us more cards. Make Citi happy, apply for another Exec card.

Within the 8/65 day rule, of course.
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Old May 5, 2014, 6:43 pm
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Is the landing page for the 100k sign up dead? The application page loads alright but the landing page where it displays the signup bonus seems to be offline.
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Old May 5, 2014, 6:48 pm
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Originally Posted by tymothy
Is the landing page for the 100k sign up dead? The application page loads alright but the landing page where it displays the signup bonus seems to be offline.
Just worked for me. Try it again, or in a diff browser, incognito window...
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Old May 5, 2014, 6:49 pm
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[QUOTE=Brugge;22815496]
Originally Posted by mh1361

Totally understandable. So apply for the Plat now, and you have the rest of the month to see if you get more comfortable with MS. If you do, you can apply for the Exec. If not, you don't need to worry about it. Most of us started out slow, and learned as we went along. That way you are less likely to make a major mistake. There will be other cc offers that come along. And for all that we know, Citi may extend this one for many months.

Personally, I'm glad I don't have major MS to do right now. WM is in the process of changing their BP system a bit, and many of the cashiers don't quite understand how the new system works. Hopefully they'll have it all figured out by the time my wife and I are able to apply for new Exec cards.
That's the plan. After I finish with my CSP spend, I think I'll apply for the Plat. Thanks for your input.
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Old May 5, 2014, 7:43 pm
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Originally Posted by tymothy
Is the landing page for the 100k sign up dead? The application page loads alright but the landing page where it displays the signup bonus seems to be offline.
nope, just applied and got approved for another card.

I will however call and check the bonus offer for you.
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Old May 5, 2014, 7:53 pm
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Just tried, and the landing page displaying the bonus loaded fine for me.
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