Comments on: American ups the ante to 30,000 bonus miles per card!

By: The Art of Non-Conformity » 1,670,000 Frequent Flyer Miles

The Art of Non-Conformity » 1,670,000 Frequent Flyer Miles — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:59:09 +0000

[...] I do, that’s 60,000 miles, and the cards have no annual fee for the first year. (Hat tip to One Mile at a Time for first breaking the news on [...]

By: JK

JK — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:16:32 +0000

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.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:35:58 +0000

signed up for the business card using link above. didn’t see anything on citi site mentioning 30,000. i hope i get them.

By: d a n

d a n — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:39:47 +0000

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!

By: lucky

lucky — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:43:38 +0000

@ 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.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:51:24 +0000

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

By: lucky

lucky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:54:58 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:42:49 +0000

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!

By: lucky

lucky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:05:31 +0000

Yes, there’s no annual fee for the first 12 months.

By: Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:04:20 +0000

Do these 30k cards come with no annual fee first year?