dukerau

The air travel credit is for any purchase with an airline. It can be a ticket (purchased from the airline, not a third party), taxes/fees on an award ticket, checked bag fees, seat upgrade fees, or even gift cards.

Productivity

My wife has had the Prestige for a while now and we are getting close to adding me as an AU for the priority pass mostly. Periodically Citi pops up with a 2500 point bonus for AU after certain spend, it's not much but it's something we were going to do no matter what and the spend is easily within our standard spending, so free points effectively.

What I'm curious about is if they will pro-rate the AU fee on the basis of the membership year. If we are halfway into the year, do they cut the fee down? Seems unfair to have a full fee when I'm going to pay it again six months later.

Ratamacue

Citi is evidently not doing this consistently. My recent welcome letter made no mention of the bonus, so I made a phone call to make sure that I was eligible.

It appears that Citi is not referencing bonuses in the welcome letter with other cards as well.

rbw5t

I have a couple of timing questions. I just saw that Citi is offering a 20% transfer bonus to Asia Miles, which is where I've been planning to use my TY points. (I currently have about 90k, and my wife has 60k). The promo is good through Sep 6th. I have not applied yet for the Prestige -- have been on the fence, but the transfer bonus is enough to induce me. But, that's only assuming I can get the bonus points in time to make use of the 20% transfer bonus. (I'd have close to 290,000 Asia Miles after the Prestige bonus plus spend plus the 20% transfer bonus -- which is enough for something useful!)

So, if I apply today and am approved, it seems like 5-6 days might be the norm for the card to arrive. Today is 8/4, so say I get it by 8/10, and that I spend the $7,500 immediately upon getting it. Would the bonus points post immediately? Upon statement closing? If statement closing, when would that be? I don't normally stress about exact timing of when points will be available, but for this one it matter immensely in that I probably wouldn't even apply for the card if I don't have my points before 9/6.

Any insight from the experts is greatly appreciated!

RobertHanson

Not sure what to do now. DW applied for an AA card just days after the 24 months were up. Approval letter did not mention a bonus. So she is not planning to do any spend on it. I'm not confident that the CSR you talked with really knows if you are qualified for the bonus. It used to be they would tell people they were, which only meant they were reading the T/C of the offer they applied for, with no idea that they might not qualify for that. It will cost $33 in fees to make the spend on her new card, which is well worth it if she does in fact get the bonus. But a waste if she doesn't. And I don't feel like rewarding Citi with our spend if they just miscalculated the 24 months. Dilemma.....

Ratamacue

In my case there is no doubt about me meeting the qualifications for the bonus since I've never held any TYP cards other than the ATTAM, and it's 3 years old. I was a bit concerned that there was no mention in the welcome letter since this has been past practice, but there are a few DPs out there that indicate this is no longer the case.

I would be inclined to call. If they say your DW isn't qualified then at least you know what not to do.

RobertHanson

You know that you are qualified, but we don't know if the CSR was correctly informed, or just got it right by accident. But yes, you are so right, we should call, and if they say she is qualified, it's worth MSing the spend to find out. Thank you so much for this DP ! ^

Ratamacue

Here is my recent history: Applied and approved on 7/23; card arrived 7/27.
Points will not post immediately. IIRC (and someone please correct me if I'm mistaken) they should post when your statement closes.
My 1st statement will close 8/10, 18 days after the account was opened. Hope that helps.

RobertHanson

Citi first statement dates are totally YMMV. It could be days after you receive your card, or it could be over a month.

dukerau

So to the best of the crowdsourced knowledge here, it seems Citi considers the Citigold Prestige ($350 AF) a different product from the Citi Prestige, right? In other words, if your Prestige was "upgraded" to Citigold upon opening a Citigold checking account, that resets the 24 month clock? In my case, I:

• Opened Citi Prestige 7/29/15
• First statement 8/26/15
• Opened Citigold ~10/2015
• New $350 posted and first "Citigold" Prestige statement on 11/23/15

If we're reading the tea leaves correctly, it seems I need to wait until 11/24/17 to open a new Prestige/Premier?

zzrayzz

Anyone get the metal card? Wondering how it looks like lol

hi-guy

THIS post from THIS thread

lkar

Oh, boy, I never even considered this. I didn't keep very good track of my stuff. I know that my first annual fee was $350, so I must have signed up for citigold relatively quickly.

My annual fee will post at at the end of this month. I was going to cancel the prestige to avoid paying the annual fee. I don't think the timing works out for me to apply for a new one, get it, and then see if I get the 75k in time to cancel the old one and avoid the fee.

I think my best option might be to wait for the last possible moment on the old prestige, produce change it to avoid the fee, and then wait for some datapoints whether a product change will count as a cancellation under the terms.

sarrisa

I got a premier 6-2015 so I want to open another TYP card before I cancel this one. I can't close the current one until after I cancel so can I apply for another premier card? I'm considering it or the prestige. Also I have 25K points from my current card so will it be okay if I apply for a new TYP card then close the current one out the next day. Since the points are still good for 30 days I'll have time to combine and not lose it?

Biggie Fries

I never thought about the Citigold angle, and, yeah, like a lot of folks we were hitting the Prestige + Premier + Citigold parlay hard summer of 2015. But, honestly, I'm going to put this pretty low on things to worry about. I don't see a bank account as a credit card product, and all that may have changed was the AF for a card. Same product.

But on to the timing thing.... On another thread I've detailed how I'm not so thrilled by the $50 back per month for seven months on $1,500 a month spend offer on the Prestige, and am coming to the conclusion that, at least for my wife's card, the play might be an application for a second Prestige card, a quick-as-we-can $7,500 spend, and then a downgrade of her first Prestige card. Anyhow, I've been trying to go to school regarding the timing of the whole thing, mostly with respect to this DoC post, but I'm confused. It looks to me that if you wait until 24 months after whatever you think your approval date was (i.e., building in a little time on the side of caution), and then wait until you are approved, and then do the spend, and then wait until the points post .... well, by that time you will almost certainly have blown through the AF posting + 30 days for getting the AF back on Prestige #1 when that is canceled or downgraded.

Any advice or experience here?