Update 5/20/24: Deal is set to end on 07/11
Update 5/10/24: Offer is back at this link (ht uscreditcardguide)
The Offer
- Citi is offering 100,000 miles after spending $10,000 within three months on the AAdvantage Executive card.
Card Details
- $595 annual fee
- $175 authorized user fee for the first three authorized users and a $175 fee for each authorized user thereafter
- Annual credits:
- Up to $120 back on eligible Avis® or Budget car rentals every calendar year.
Up to $120 back on eligible Grubhub purchases (up to $10 statement credit on each monthly billing statement).
Up to $120 in Lyft credits ($10 credit each month after taking three eligible rides)
- Up to $120 back on eligible Avis® or Budget car rentals every calendar year.
- Admiral club access (includes authorized users)
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 4X AAdvantage miles on eligible American Airlines purchases. After spending $150,000 in a calendar year, cardmembers can earn a total of 5X AAdvantage miles on eligible American Airlines purchases for the remainder of the calendar year.
- 10X AAdvantage miles on eligible car rentals booked through aa.com/cars and eligible hotels booked through aa.com/hotels.
- 1X on all other purchases
- Loyalty point bonuses:
- Loyalty point bonuses:
- A 10,000 Loyalty Point bonus after reaching 50,000 Loyalty Points in a status qualification year.
- An additional 10,000 Loyalty Point bonus after reaching 90,000 Loyalty Points in the same status qualification year
- Loyalty point bonuses:
- No foreign purchase fees
- Enhanced Airport Experience
- First Checked Bag Free
- $100 Credit For Global Entry/TSA PreCheck
- 48 month rule does apply
Our Verdict
Citi recently made some major changes to this card including the annual fee increase and authorized fee increased along with some additional credits. I don’t think this card is worth holding long term, but if you can use the benefits and miles then this is a good bonus on this card and I don’t see it going higher in the future. We will add it to the best credit card bonuses.
Does the admiral club membership get you into AS and OW lounges on domestic flights?
And looks like the lyft credits are pretty useless unless you regularly take 3X rides per month…
What’s the referral code? The application won’t let me hit submit without it.
Referral code: 999999
AA miles are going down the drain, united way. No Business class seats available to India at 70k on AA/Qatar or Etihad. No availability for a year from now…
Etihad usually opens up some award seats within 30 days of the flight. And Qatar randomly sometimes opens some availability here and there. Its not in AA’s control when the partners decide to make award seats available.
this ain’t it lol, AA is still the best points to burn until a future speculative nerf. Etihad does open seats, there was JFK-AUH <-> award availability dump, and there are LHR-AUH Apartment availability. They will be devalued like Alaska soon but I saw plenty of AA award availability to India via tracker in December too.
Is there still a Citi gold discount for this card ?
I am told that Private Client still gets the annual fee waiver. Supposedly it will be credited back to your account automatically shortly after it posts.
Wow a waiver would be nice. I think citi gold gets you $145 off. I wonder why they don’t advertise this.
The coupon book trend with the food delivery (never use) and ride-share (use only a few times a year) credits are for me making these cards a bad deal outside of the SUBs.
Does anyone know if the 10,000 loyalty points at 50,000 and 90,000 count as miles or only loyalty points?
only loyalty points, i have the card
LP only
Meh. 100,000 sounds good but for $595 that’s not great value. You have to think about it like an Amex Plat. Would you do the 100k plat offer? hell no. Unless this ever goes up to 150K (which it won’t) I don’t see much value in this.
Ehh I think you can easily extract the value out of right now. Sure, the AF is high but AA still has the best partner award pricing. 115K in F from JFK > AUH is pretty darn good value. And you should basically earn that by meeting the AF. Admirals lounges also are less full than Delta ones if you have one in your market. Not to mention, the partnership with BILT ending limits earning opportunities for AA miles. If the suspected deval comes soon, and it does seem likely, this only makes sense if applying now and if you can meet the spend requirement and book quickly.
good luck getting JFK -> AUH at the moment thru AA or Q Suites in desirable locations minus YUL.
No direct AUH US redemption, even within 30 days. This change happened last week
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I just checked. there is pretty good availability.
Was able to take advantage recently, but didn’t know about the change Jenny is speaking of. The math changes some then although I do still see a decent amount of Q Suites availability if you’re willing to book last minute.
QSuites are unavailable even for last-minute bookings, and is available to/from the US for only a few days over the next year.
yes, the offer is 40K bonus offer NOT 100K after you pay the rip off massive $600 annual fee. thank you for having common sense
As with any offer, we apply the math and see what is most advantageous. We don’t cherry pick what costs/benefits to include/exclude, other than in the application to our plans/situations.
Seems to require a referral code. I’ve never seen that on a citi application before. Any ideas?
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very bad offer! the bonus after the $600 fee is 40K miles only
How is the bonus 40K miles after the fee?
Arguing that AA miles are ~1 cpp, which is probably too low. Not to mention putting some value on the benefits, even if they dupe other ones.
EASY to use the rental car credit 2x before next annual fee hits. And easy to use the 10 dollar grubhub credit to eat once a month for pickup. After those credits the effective annual fee for first year is 235. I can easily extract 235 dollars worth of value out of 10k AA miles. So 90k free for me plus the additional 10k for spending 10k. Plus lounge access! Even though the AA lounges typically suck it beats spending 7 dollars for a coffee in the airport and its a nice place to chill and charge my things. Easily worth it in first year. Also AA miles are worth more than 1 CPP. If you get anything less just stick to cash back.
Do the math on a cpp basis
Seriously? FYI, yes this card offer is 40K miles worth $100 to $400. YOU have to pay the massive $600 annual fee which is equivalent to 60k to sometimes 200k Disaadvantage miles because most of the time , one way domestic non stop coach cost 50000 AA miles, worse on international. Once in a blue moon when you are lucky, they release saver awards but most of the time it is a rip off!
I just got sfo-pek in JAL J (worth almost $8k) for 75k AA miles but ok.
Maybe
Travis is an AA insider who can buy points at ~1 CPP (cents per point)? Otherwise, for the rest of us mere mortals, even buying points directly from AA @ ~1.8 CPP tends to be an amazing value if you enjoy flying business class.
Just like
Zephyr, I often see great availability for SEA/SFO-TYO on JAL business for 60k AA with great availability. These tickets retail for $6-11k, making AA among the most valuable airline points.
For those who struggle with math, $6000/60,000 is a value of 10 CPP, so using
Travis’s logic, this sub is worth 100,000*$.10 = $10,000. Personally, I wouldn’t necessarily value AA that highly, but 10 cents is still a much larger number than 1 cent.
You clearly haven’t done much research on AA miles – they are currently the best value for US airlines. I’m on a flight now across the country for only 7500 miles.
whaaaaat, Is this really how you calculate?
yes, unbiased, zero rosy paint picture truth. this card offer is 40K miles which is around $100 to $400 max after YOU PAY the massive $600 annual fee
your math isn’t mathing. 100,000 aa miles is worth way more than $1,000 depending if you’re near an AA hub like i am at DFW. DFW to CDG economy round trip non stop in June is $1300 right now. in miles its 54000 + $70 fees.
DFW to FCO is $2000 for June nonstop round trip right now, $1900 at its cheapest in the past 60 days according to google, in miles its 54000 + $70 fees
the miles aside,
is this credit card is worth it by itself? For most people, probably not. Is it fun for me since I live at DFW and could use the admirals club at terminals with no priority pass lounges? yea. Would I hold on it after the bonus? probably not.
once again, I am NOT paying your massive rip off $600 annual fee. minus that and the card is 40k miles bonus offer which is equivalent to $100 to $400.
40K miles is not $100-$400. And no one is forcing you to pay anything, just move on ..
My only problem is AA miles are supposed to be devalued this upcoming year and we are halfway to Q3. Supposed Alaska like devalue. So burn n churn
Link for the devaluation info?
Where did you hear this?
from what i’ve seen its people speculating becuase of alaska and probably time-frame of last devaluation.
AA hasn’t devalued since 2016. Speculation based upon podcast:
Vasu Raja doubled down on saying that partner price changes are coming in his presentation to employees at the airline’s “State of the Union” following its fourth quarter earnings call this past week, a recording of which was reviewed by View From The Wing.