American’s Citi cards have always been my favorite, mainly because there are so many types to apply for and they each come with a 25,000 mile sign-up bonus. Also, all American miles count towards million miler status, unlike other airlines where only “butt-in-seat” miles count. As if American wasn’t generous enough in the past, I just got an email advertising 30,000 bonus miles per card! It advises me to apply for the Citi Mastercard, Citi American Express, and Citi Business MasterCard.
If anything I would have expected the sign-up bonus to decrease, but instead they give us an extra 5,000 miles per card!
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April 20th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Chris said,
darn! I just got my application accepted the other day!!!
April 20th, 2009 at 10:03 am
lucky said,
@ Chris — I can’t guarantee it’ll work, but I’d certainlygive their customer service line a call and reference the new sign-up promotion. They might just throw in the 5,000 bonus miles as a “gesture of goodwill.”
April 20th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Oliver said,
They just keep offering me 5,000 miles when I add the Amex card to my existing MC. No thanks.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Gary Steiger said,
You links take me to application pages that do not mention the miles bonus. Any links to pages that describe the bonus?
Thanks.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
lucky said,
@ Oliver — If you sign up for the cards individually (as opposed to adding cards) you’ll get the full sign-up bonus. Lots of people “churn” the AA Citi cards.
@ Gary — The only link in my email is to the sign-up page linked above. I’d be happy to forward the email to anyone that would like it. Feel free to email me at onemileatatime@hotmail.com if you’d like a copy.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Dmitriy said,
Do these 30k cards come with no annual fee first year?
April 20th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
lucky said,
Yes, there’s no annual fee for the first 12 months.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Mike said,
Lucky…
In a past life I had 800,000 miles on AA before I swore never to fly them again and moved to UA, where I will hit a million next year. Are you telling me I can get to million on AA without ever flying them again? Sounds insane…
Do I just need to put $200,000 on an AA credit card for the next few years? What other non-BIS miles are the easiest to earn.
Wow, can’t believe AA would allow this!
April 20th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
lucky said,
That’s correct, Mike. If you earn 1,000,000 American miles you earn lifetime Gold stauts, even if you’ve never flown with them before. Heck, you can just churn their credit cards for those miles too. Either way, it’s ridiculously easy.
Rumor has it they’ll be changing that system sometime relatively soon, so if you want to lock lifetime status in, do it sooner rather than later.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:51 am
Craig said,
Er . . . regarding the rumor above about AA changing the Lifetime status rules to require (I assume) actual flight miles, do you have any inkling of when that change might occur? Next month? Next year? Do you think I can call AA and ask?
I am currently at 1.8M miles and have enough transferable Starpoints to push me over the 2M mark, but I was hoping to do this after July as I do not want the systemwide upgrades to expire before next summer. Do AA’s systemwides expire in a year from issuance? Thanks
April 21st, 2009 at 5:43 am
lucky said,
@ Craig — Sorry, I don’t mean to scare anyone. If American makes a change to their million miler program, I’m sure they’ll give us some advanced notice. This has been a rumor for years now, so I see no reason that the change would happen before the end of the year at the earliest. It’s just always something to keep in mind, since the program is too good to be true as it stands.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:39 am
d a n said,
I just went to the Citicards page that I used to sign up for my 25K mile cards and it generates the same three links Lucky just posted (only the session id changed):
https://www.citicards.com/cards/wv/home.do
But citicard is still advertising them as 25K cards, I don’t see 30K mentioned anywhere.
I’d love to see the email Lucky is talking about it!
April 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
dave said,
signed up for the business card using link above. didn’t see anything on citi site mentioning 30,000. i hope i get them.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
JK said,
I just used those links to apply for a new Citibank AA card – I confirmed with a rep that I’m getting the 30K miles after spending $750 within 3 months, no annual fee for the first year.
Note that United/Chase has started clamping down on their bonus offers if you’ve had a card before.
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