The Offer
Direct link for business offer | Direct link for personal offer
- It’s still possible to get the following offers on the Citi American Airline cards:
- Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select MasterCard: 50,000 miles after $3,000 in spend
- CitiBusiness / AAdvantage Platinum Select Card: 50,000 miles after $3,000 in spend
Card Details
- Bonus miles are not available if you have had the card you’re applying for opened or closed in the past 18 months
Business Card
- Annual fee of $95 is waived the first year
- First checked bag free on domestic American Airlines and US Airways itineraries for you and up to four travel companions
- Boarding Privileges with Group 1 on American Airlines domestic flights and Zone 2 on US Airways operated domestic flights
- Earn an American Airlines Companion Certificate each year after spending $30,000 or more
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 2x miles on American Airlines purchases
- 2x miles on certain office supply, telecommunications, gas stations and rental car merchants
- 1x miles on all other purchases
- Access to reduced mileage awards
- 25% savings on eligible in-flight purchases
- No foreign transaction fees
Personal Card
- $95 annual fee waived first year
- AA benefits:
- First checked bag free for you and up to 4 travel companions
- Group 1 boarding
- Earn at the following rates:
- 2x miles on eligible American Airlines purchases
- 1x miles on all other purchases
- Earn 10% of your redeemed AAdvantage® miles back – up to 10,000 AAdvantage miles each calendar year (does not stack with Barclaycard)
- Receive a 25% savings on eligible food and beverage purchases when you use this card on
Our Verdict
The public link (and affiliate links) for Citi American Airlines cards dropped to 30,000 today. When this happens, usually links stick around for the higher offer. It’s also possible to ask Citi to match you to the 60,000 mile personal offer (you need to apply for the 50,000 mile offer first and then contact them asking them to match you to the personal offer), they will then credit you another 10,000 miles. The 60,000 targeted mile offer is due to expire on March 15th, 2016 so if you want to match then I’d recommend applying now.
I don’t know if Citi will eventually remove these 50,000 mile offers, they are almost always available so I doubt it but who knows.
Hat tip to Running With Miles & Freequent Flyer Miles
Is there a working link for 50k personal card offer?
Well, I just applied and got my card about a month ago, and have not even met the min. spend yet. I sent a sm on Fri. and today got a snippy, canned “no, we do not honor . . . ..” and even goes on to mention that they specifically do not honor 3rd party offers “from blogs!” I didn’t say a word about blogs, obviously, so it may be that the gig is up. I would suggest calling, as I think that the sm option is probably across the board, as this looked like a very standard, impersonal reply.
Very sad and feeling cheated. No love for Citi from me.
Time to go put my spend on my new Ritz card!
MAJOR CORRECTION! I was reading wrong sm response (the one to my request for a similar match for my premier card in July, which was summarily rejected, per language above). I went to argue with them, and saw the date. I was really confused until I realized what had happened. When I finally found a way to access the messages for the new account, low and behold “Happy to give you an additional 10,000 aa miles.”
So, apparently aa miles are cheap and thank you points are not. ; )
My apologies to all who were mislead in the 15 minutes between these posts. Thank you all for posting–without these data points, we would all leave a lot of points on the table. And thank you Dr. C!
I keep getting an error when trying to apply for the BSN card:
“A system error has caused a delay in processing your application. Please try again later.”
About how long you think the 50k link will stick around for? I gotta decide if I should apply for SPG card for 5k spending before end of month or Citi AA if its not gonna be around anymore…
Data point – Received a message today from Citi – they’re giving both myself and the wife an extra 10,000 miles each on our personal cards! We opened our cards in early February 2016.
I also reported yesterday that we got 10,000 miles each on our business cards!!!!
40,000 extra AAdvantage miles in total thanks to this website.
THANKS DOC!!!!!!!!
Got the extra 10,000 miles just by asking via SM….piece of cake! Thanks for the info
I got the 60K offer matched as well by doing a SM.
Thanks for the tip , just applied for 50k citi offer for spouse and sent a SM requesting additional 10k miles. Just got response it will be honored.
My wife and I each got the AA card back in late Dec. when it was offering 50,000 miles. We each sent an SM to Citi yesterday about the 60,000 mile offer and Citi responded by saying they will give each us of the 10,000 bonus miles! I’m so glad I read this post yesterday!
Where are you guys saying you saw this “60K offer” in your SM? I am just curious so I can word it in way that is consistent.
Interested in the business aa…was denied late last year for citi premier. i have a dividend card and have a targeted mail offer for $300 for opening citigold by 3/31. what are my chances of being approved ? reason for last denial was too many open accounts,/fico 800+
was approved today for the ua biz card after opening 10 cards alone in the last/24 mos…waited a week for pending approval. the 5/24 hasnt hit co-branded biz cards yet