100,000 Citibank American Airlines Offer Alive Again?
Earlier this year, Citibank had an offer for 100,000 American Airlines miles and a $200 statement credit after spending $10,000 within 3 months. The card also carries a $450 annual fee. Despite the high annual fee and high spending requirement, this was an extremely popular offer. I personally signed up, completed the spending and received my 100,000 miles. A few weeks ago, the offer disappeared.
Apparently, the offer is back via a zombie link and you can find the new application here. The application page does not state the 100,000 mile offer, but according to this Flyertalk thread, people have applied and received a 100,000 mile offer. I cannot personally vouch for this link as I have not applied through it myself, but the info on Flyertalk in this particular case seems to be trustworthy.
I don’t know how long this offer will last and some people have managed to sign up for the 100,000 miles offer multiple times. You can read my full previous discussion of the offer here: 100,000 Miles Offer for the Citi Executive American Airlines MasterCard.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I do not receive any commission for the Citibank 100,000 miles offer).
Thank you Mommy Points for announcing to us the link is still alive.
Vanilla GC is dead since it cannot be loaded into Walmart anymore and all Walmart in Norcal now have been extremely strict on allowing us to use debit gift cards (Metabank, etc) to load into BB. Usually now the cashiers are trained to ask the customer the BB and the debit cards so they can check and swipe it onto the register by themselves rather than letting the customer do it. What is the best solution to this, if we need to meet the minimum $10k spending on this card?
Part of the problem frequently is to try to social engineer your way into getting things done by being friendly with the cashier :) I cannot count how many people swear to me all drugstores in NYC will not take credit cards for Paypal cards and yet I am always able to buy them. I also have a post on using Paypal cards for spending as another option that may be useful: http://milesprof.wpengine.com/2014/05/10/paypal-square-cash-business-debit/
Looks like the link is dead. I’ve tried to get there thru multiple blog posts, but to no avail…
Any updates you can provide???
Word is it is dead again. I know no working link right now. If another one comes back to life, I’ll update.
I wonder whether anyone else has noticed this. I missed it, even though I thought I had read everything carefully. A big reason I got the ‘100K miles point executive CITI card’ was to get the 10K extra elite miles to help me get to exec platinum faster. However, I always have many more points than miles because I fly first whenever possible (purchased), so I tend to get 1.5 points for each mile flown. Can you see where this is going? Based on this, I always get to platinum, and likely exec platinum, on elite points – and never never never get there on elite miles. So, the 10K award elite miles to me has value 0. For example, I was at 56K elite points and about 37K elite miles before the 10K elite miles was awarded – and am now at 56K elite points and about 47K elite miles after the 10K elite miles were awarded. So, the 10K elite miles they gave me are worthless to me. Those elite miles will never help me get to next level because I will always already be there on elite points. Let’s extrapolate. This is happening to all their very best customers who have this card – big spenders, frequent fliers. When they find out, if those 10K elite points were important to them (as they were to me), they will not be happy. More consequences: a) this reduces the incentive to meet that magic $40K dollars spent which buys you this offer (which is worthless in these scenarios); b) those 10K elite miles come each year, but now there is less incentive to keep the card after you get their 100K miles or to spend $40K on this card; c) it is not smart to mislead people who spend a lot of money on your card – they will start looking elsewhere. keep them happy, they stay loyal. pull something like this, and they start thinking twice about other cards. Enough said – I did not read the fine print. let the buyer beware. wonder how many other people noticed this? I asked CITI to also give me points – got back a ‘that is the way AA does it’. I asked AA, and they said I had to talk to CITI. This does not bring credit to AA or CITI.