Update 10/4/22: Available again.
The Offer
- Barclays is offering a signup bonus on the business Aviator card of 80,000 miles + $95 statement credit when spending $2,000 within 90 days.
Card Details
- Limited time offer (no precise expiration given)
- $95 annual fee is not waived
- Earn an American Airlines companion certificate. When you spend $30,000 or more in a card member year, you earn an American Airlines companion certificate. You pay $99 + taxes/fees and get a companion ticket to accompany you on any round trip economy fare.
- 5% annual mile bonus. You’ll receive an additional 5% bonus on all miles earned in the previous card member year (e.g earn 100,000 miles receive a 5,000 mile bonus) – you must pay the annual fee before you receive this bonus.
- Free checked bag
- Board with Group 5 on American
- 25% statement credit for all in flight purchases
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 2x American Airline miles on American Airline purchases
- 2x American Airline miles on office supply merchants, telecommunications merchants, and car rental merchants
- 1x American Airline miles on all other purchases
- Read our full review here
Our Verdict
This card just returned in March with a 70k bonus after being pulled for some changes. This is an excellent offer with a nice low $2,000 spend requirement and with the $95 statement credit which basically offsets the annual fee.
We’ll add this to our list of Best Current Credit Card Signup Bonuses. Check out these Things To Know About Barclay’s Credit Cards before applying. There are similar bonuses on the Hawaiian business card, Aviator business card, and JetBlue business card.
Was in a crunch for AA miles, so went for the 70k offer.
Applied & Approved: 4/11/23
MSR: 4-26-23
First statement: 5/5/23
60k Miles posted to AA account: On 5/5/23 but did not officially check account until 5/7/23 (AA site says 5-5-23)
10k employee bonus has not posted since made first purchase on 5/6/23
Can I apply for multiple Barclay American Airline business cards, one with my SSN and another with my EIN?
cant find any links with this offer. only 70K
Looks like expired. Any other active link ?
Can we apply both Barclay’s and Citi business AA cards together? I remember there were some adverse actions few year back so want to be sure.
I would also like to know this
Yes, I did them both in December 2019. I believe the issue was for people who also got a 3rd AA bonus in the same timeframe in addition to doing those 2.
I did both Barclay’s aviator business and personal on the same month. Received 140K miles just few weeks after meeting spend requirement.
This is not a problem.
Citi and Barclay are independent banks, and the bonuses on their cards are independent. As a matter of fact you can get all 4 of them at the same time: Citi Personal, Citi Business, Barclay Personal and Barclay Business. You can also get bonuses on multiple Barclay AA business cards if you have multiple businesses (multiple EINs, or SSN+EIN), and you manage to get approved (which could be tricky with Barclay, but could be done with good credit score, credit re-allocation, persistency and lots of patience).
Note: With Citi – only 1 bonus for biz card per AA loyalty account, even if you have multiple businesses with different EINs. 1 every 48 months now… same for Citi AA personal.
Good luck.
Offer’s been nerfed? Link now shows 70k with no statement credit.
seems like it. only seeing 70k no SC as well
Anyone get a SUB less than 24 months after closing their last Barclays AA Biz?
My personal data points:
10/27 – Approved for card
11/1 – Finished the 2K spending
11/21 – Statement closed. Received only the $95 statement credit. Dont see the 80K SUB anywhere
12/9 – Started seeing the 80K SUB in the Barclays app but not in my AAdvantage account
12/21 – 2nd statement closed. 80K auto emptied out from Barclays but nothing in AA
12/23 – Finally see the 80K deposited into AA account
Thanks for this timeline. My statement having met the spend just closed. I also received the $95 statement credit immediately. Good to know the 80k miles should post about a month later.
Has anyone had their welcome bonus miles deposit? Third statement just generated and i’m getting the monthly spend miles but no welcome bonus. I SM’d but thought i’d ask here too.
Yes, my P1-P4 all applied in October through November and have all received the 80k miles.
The $95 SC and annual fee processed at first month’s end, then the 80k miles credited when the statement is cut.
I noticed the 80k miles show up in the mobile app a ~week after meeting the minimum spend. I don’t see this on the website anywhere, except to wait until the statement is generated.
I’m in a similar situation. It’s been two statements and I’m not seeing the SUB. I sent an SM and asked about it. They said “…This one-time offer is valid for new accounts only. Existing accounts and previous cardmembers with accounts closed in the past 24 months may not be eligible for this offer.”
I had close an Aviator biz card 3.5 years ago so I thought I was fine. However, I had never seen that “one-time offer language”. They also said the SUB could take 4-6 weeks to post and yet it’s been 9 weeks.
Ugh. I’m in a similar situation (second-time cardholder, with an account closed >24 months ago). Have you tried calling? What, if anything, do you plan to do next? Also: Did you not receive /either/ the statement credit /or/ the points? And: When were you charged the $99 fee?
I actually just got the SUB yesterday, so I guess it’s just very delayed. The SU offer I applied to did not offer a statement credit. I was charged the AF on my first statement.