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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 25, 2014, 9:31 am
  #5956  
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Sacramento CA - SMF
Programs: UA 1K, PC Plat, SPG Gld, HH Gld, MR Gld
Posts: 207
Originally Posted by sound48
I had a related question as well. My statement closed 31 days ago. I sent a sm cancelling the card and got a response back in 15 minutes. Since then I've received the email verifying card closure and my card is shown as closed on the website. Should I follow up by phone or sm before 37 days if the $450 is not received by then?
You should have no need to follow up on the AF refund. I've cancelled 5 cards (wife & mine) and AF credited has always posted within 48 hours.

However, should it become necessary to contact Citi I would do it via SM; as this thread is full of posts regarding CSR that really don't have a clue on what's going on. SM has always worked for me.

Last edited by kwbtraveler; May 25, 2014 at 9:36 am
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Old May 25, 2014, 10:39 am
  #5957  
 
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Is there any kind of referral bonus with this card? (Hopeful, but doubtful.)
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Old May 25, 2014, 10:53 am
  #5958  
 
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When you cancel your cards, do you ask them to reallocate the limits on to your other remaining cards?
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Old May 25, 2014, 12:07 pm
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Originally Posted by some dude
When you cancel your cards, do you ask them to reallocate the limits on to your other remaining cards?
From previous posts I've read, that won't work. You can only move credit when you have to call in regarding approval of a new account. It never hurts to ask, but I wouldn't count on it working.
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Old May 25, 2014, 12:22 pm
  #5960  
 
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Originally Posted by kwbtraveler
You should have no need to follow up on the AF refund. I've cancelled 5 cards (wife & mine) and AF credited has always posted within 48 hours.

However, should it become necessary to contact Citi I would do it via SM; as this thread is full of posts regarding CSR that really don't have a clue on what's going on. SM has always worked for me.
Where does the AF credit to, another Citi card or do they send a check? Thank you for the response.
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Old May 25, 2014, 12:27 pm
  #5961  
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Originally Posted by sound48
Where does the AF credit to, another Citi card or do they send a check? Thank you for the response.
It will credit to your closed card. You will either have to let it sit long enough for them to automatically mail you a check. However, you can contact them to move to another card or mail you a check.
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Old May 25, 2014, 12:30 pm
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For your 5th cards, you use your third card as the start point for the 8/65 count, right?
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Old May 25, 2014, 1:05 pm
  #5963  
 
Join Date: Sep 2013
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Originally Posted by RamboAroundTheWorld
For your 5th cards, you use your third card as the start point for the 8/65 count, right?
Yes, assuming it's been at least 8 days since you applied for the 4th card, you can apply for the 5th card 65 days after you applied for the 3rd.
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Old May 25, 2014, 4:37 pm
  #5964  
 
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Originally Posted by sound48
Where does the AF credit to, another Citi card or do they send a check? Thank you for the response.
Your welcome. We'll, once the AF refund posts I send another SM to Citi asking them to move the funds to my more recent Citi Exec card. That is what I did just this afternoon - moved AF from card 2 to card 4.

Looked like:
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Good afternoon,

Please transfer existing balance of $450.00 currently on my card account ending in xx-1234 to my card account ending in xx-4321. Thank you so much.

Best regards,

Kwbtraveler

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Now this works if you have another Citi Card you can transfer the credit too. If you don't then consider signing up for another Citi AA Exec; or just wait for a while and Citi will send you a check for the $450.00.

Have a great day!
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Old May 25, 2014, 7:15 pm
  #5965  
 
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When I got approved 2nd time, I didn't want to move any CL from other citi cards and I told the rep the $5k is enough for me.

Because when you close this card, they wouldn't let you transfer the CL to other citi card without a hard pull. I wasted $8k CL when I closed the first one.

Can anyone answer this?

So I recently called for retention offer on my Citi AA biz due to the AF, Call got disconnected and when I called back, the card was already closed by the previous rep and I told the rep it is ok and let it be closed. Than the next day Citi pulled my credit report, hard inquiry and received a letter in mail saying they will review my request for reopening the card but I need to send in tax docs first. I called few times and spoke to few managers who did nothing. I finally got one agent to look in to this and she called me back next day saying she listened to all the calls and apologized to me for so much of my time wasted having to remove the inquiry. She promised to give me 10k miles on my Citi Exec card. Told me I should see this when the statement closes. My Citi AA biz was closed so she told me she could do this on the Exec card. Now my concern is I intend to close this card soon to avoid the $450 AF. I got the fee charged 10 days ago. My statement closes in end of June.
Will I still get the 10k courtesy miles the Rep gave me if I close this card?
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Old May 25, 2014, 8:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Blueskyheaven
When I got approved 2nd time, I didn't want to move any CL from other citi cards and I told the rep the $5k is enough for me.

Because when you close this card, they wouldn't let you transfer the CL to other citi card without a hard pull. I wasted $8k CL when I closed the first one.

Can anyone answer this?

So I recently called for retention offer on my Citi AA biz due to the AF, Call got disconnected and when I called back, the card was already closed by the previous rep and I told the rep it is ok and let it be closed. Than the next day Citi pulled my credit report, hard inquiry and received a letter in mail saying they will review my request for reopening the card but I need to send in tax docs first. I called few times and spoke to few managers who did nothing. I finally got one agent to look in to this and she called me back next day saying she listened to all the calls and apologized to me for so much of my time wasted having to remove the inquiry. She promised to give me 10k miles on my Citi Exec card. Told me I should see this when the statement closes. My Citi AA biz was closed so she told me she could do this on the Exec card. Now my concern is I intend to close this card soon to avoid the $450 AF. I got the fee charged 10 days ago. My statement closes in end of June.
Will I still get the 10k courtesy miles the Rep gave me if I close this card?
maybe
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Old May 25, 2014, 9:07 pm
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Originally Posted by Brugge
Yes, assuming it's been at least 8 days since you applied for the 4th card, you can apply for the 5th card 65 days after you applied for the 3rd.
Thanks. I figured. Just wanted to double check. Gets a little confusing sometimes keeping up with all these damn rules.
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Old May 25, 2014, 9:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Brugge
Yes, they will see same day HPs. So do what you think will be the more difficult app to get approved, and call in on it, before you do the second app. In this case, call in for Citi before you apply to Chase.
thanks Brugge...Did just that... got approval on both...^
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Old May 26, 2014, 3:20 am
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Assistance?

New(er) to churning, MS & Citi - been reading everything I can get my greedy hands on. Applied for my first Citi about 10 days ago, approved at $30K and just applied #2 for another $30K...sitting here trying to figure out the best way to spend $20K in a couple of weeks...Just buy a sh*tload of VGC's???? Have great access to WM, and several stores with $0-$500 VCG @ $4.95 ea. Have a new BB account -- Buy VCG's now and convert as am able? I do have the funds available for float. Will probably eat the $200 on each card but cancel before the second AF. Made a personal decision not to go for more cards 'till I fully convert the spend requirement on these two - trying to take measured steps. Thoughts???
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Old May 26, 2014, 6:05 am
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Originally Posted by kimmielou01
New(er) to churning, MS & Citi - been reading everything I can get my greedy hands on. Applied for my first Citi about 10 days ago, approved at $30K and just applied #2 for another $30K...sitting here trying to figure out the best way to spend $20K in a couple of weeks...Just buy a sh*tload of VGC's???? Have great access to WM, and several stores with $0-$500 VCG @ $4.95 ea. Have a new BB account -- Buy VCG's now and convert as am able? I do have the funds available for float. Will probably eat the $200 on each card but cancel before the second AF. Made a personal decision not to go for more cards 'till I fully convert the spend requirement on these two - trying to take measured steps. Thoughts???
That will work. On BB you still have time to load 5k for May (load 1k per day at WM) and 5k next month. That will take care of your first card. You can pay Citi from BB to unload.
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