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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 2:18 pm
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Help with next card

I could use help picking my next few cards.

I am currently working on my second SW card to obtain the SW Companion pass.

My miles/points are as follows:
Alaska 45K
American 135K
UR 120K
TYP 55K
MR 67K
IHG 120K

Card inventory:
A plethora of Chase cards minus Ink and Marriott
Citi Prestige, AA Plat Select
Amex PRG and Hilton
Barc Aviator Silver


Waiting for larger than normal sign up bonuses for Amex Plat or AA.

Thinking about SPG (thought 25K seems low) or Citi Premier or Amex EDP (to keep MR as I want to dump PRG). Thoughts? Is there something else I should consider?
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 2:20 pm
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 2:51 pm
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I think the SPG is a solid choice but the only hard part is you need to decide if you want to wait for it to increase to 30k or just get it now. I personally wouldn't wait since it tends to increase at the very end of summer and its still very valuable as is - for redemption or transfers...Or you could do a personal now and business later and spread the apps out. Your PRG doesn't count against your 4 card limit with amex either so there's nothing to sweat as far as 'pushing it' with amex goes.

Since you have the Citi Prestige, the premier is a very logical choice too. You can combined those two bonuses to the Prestige account and then use the 100k+ points for a nice discount on AA flights, or whatever airline you'd like to transfer to.
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 3:06 pm
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depends entirely on your travel goals and the airline that provides the most service to your home airport.
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 4:57 pm
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According to the blogs that everyone hates (I do too...but I still follow just to make sure there's nothing I've missed), the Citi Premier is due for changes soon. All speculation seems to be that the bonus will be lower. That being said, I'd go for that if I was in your position and already had the Prestige and could boost the TYP numbers.
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 5:39 pm
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Originally Posted by g8trgr8t
depends entirely on your travel goals and the airline that provides the most service to your home airport.
I had intended to list the travel goals, SE Asia in Fall of 2016 and Europe or South America in 2017. I intend to book award travel mostly for international.

I'm getting the SW companion pass for domestic trips and will pay for some trips as flights seem cheap right now.

Thanks to all that are chiming in.
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 5:42 pm
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According to the blogs that everyone hates (I do too...but I still follow just to make sure there's nothing I've missed), the Citi Premier is due for changes soon. All speculation seems to be that the bonus will be lower. That being said, I'd go for that if I was in your position and already had the Prestige and could boost the TYP numbers.
Thanks for the tip, that might tip the scale towards Premier for now. I'm curious how long the SPG will be offered as well.
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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 8:18 pm
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Not sure how these will fit into your travel goals but...

American seems to have a lot of service for S. America..citigold checking account can add 50k with a little bit of work and you can make the min spend real easy on another Citibank platinum (can get a 60k match) by funding the checking account with it if your existing platinum was ever converted to elite. add in a citibiz and that would provide plenty to top off your AA account for S. America

chase united and united biz are both 50k + right now.

British airways has a 10k if you can do the 20k spend
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Old Jan 20, 2016 | 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by g8trgr8t
Not sure how these will fit into your travel goals but...

American seems to have a lot of service for S. America..citigold checking account can add 50k with a little bit of work and you can make the min spend real easy on another Citibank platinum (can get a 60k match) by funding the checking account with it if your existing platinum was ever converted to elite. add in a citibiz and that would provide plenty to top off your AA account for S. America

chase united and united biz are both 50k + right now.

British airways has a 10k if you can do the 20k spend
Is the Citigold Account opening 50k offer still available?
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Old Jan 20, 2016 | 2:45 pm
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Is the Citigold Account opening 50k offer still available?
not sure but there is this

post 636

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/citi-...t-card-43.html

Unfortunately missed the great signup offer that ended 12/31/15.

During a live chat with Citi today a rep confirmed that a similar offer should be marketed by Feb. 15 2016. He did not confirm if the requirements would be the same as discussed earlier in this thread ( $1k debit transactions / 2 consecutive billpays).
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