Update 6/15/25: Down to 65,000 now
Update 5/15/25: Ends in 7 days
Update 4/10/25: Offer is back (ht FM)
Update 10/8/24: Offer is back at this new link
The Offer
- CitiBusiness American Airlines Platinum Select World Elite Mastercard is offering 75,000 American Airlines miles after you spend $5,000 within the first five months.
Card Details
- Annual fee of $99 is waived the first year
- Contains language limiting one American Airlines bonus per 48 month
Our Verdict
We have seen similar offers in the past and we’ll add this to our best credit card bonus page. Before applying or asking basic questions in the comments make sure you read these things everybody should know about Citi cards here.
Hat tip to generic19name
Dumb question – Is this one per SSN or one per business? ie – could I open this card for multiple business like an Ink?
I tried with SSN and EIN (1 month apart) with different company names .. but only 1st card get the signing bonus. Anybody has different experience?
Hi,
I applied for a personal card and a business card the same day; waited to complete my bonus spends and after 90 days completed, applied for a 2nd business card. Then i completed the min spend on the first 2 cards but i still haven’t received the signup bonus after statement closed. What’s the timeline folks are seeing now?
Can someone provide dp as to how long does it take Citi to post the bonus miles earned after meeting the 5k spending? Wait for next cycle close or immediately? TIA
In my experience Citi posts miles when the next cycle closes. As long as you completed the spend a few days before the cycle closed. It also takes a couple of days after that for miles to appear in your AA account.
This card is so frustrating to use. Have had it for about a month. 8/10 any online charges get flagged as fraud and won’t go through unless you respond to Citi’s fraud alert. On amazon, for instance, what happens is you’ll attempt to pay for an item with the citi card, it will be declined for fraud, amazon will revert to a secondary payment method and proceed. By the time you’ve clicked through on citi’s email to disregard the fraud potential, amazon has already applied the charge to another card. Hey, citi — chill! No other bank does this. You’re rendering your card worthless to consumers. Decline Decline Decline
Offer is now 65,000 points with $4k spend
FYI, they give you a temp card number at approval to use for online purchases, but I’ve found it doesn’t work 90% of the time. You get a denial and a text message that says “Your temporary card information only works for certain purchases.” It’s bizarre. This includes Amazon purchases. Not a big deal, but if someone’s relying on using the card right away in that first week before your physical card arrives, be wary.
Helpful. Thanks.
Just signed up for the card, in the details for the temporary card it says “you can use your temporary digital card to shop immediately and only at aa.com”
Lol, so… useless?
Thinking about applying for this card for P2. If I add myself as an AU, does that negatively effect my 5/24 status?
Edit: I guess the offer is expired, but question still stands in general.
Citi does not report business cards to the personal credit bureaus, so adding yourself as an AU (or in this case more accurately to say as Employee) does not affect you at all.
Edit: I should probably make even more generic statement. Even the banks which do report (some) business cards to credit bureaus (such as Capital One or Discover …. which is now purchased by Capital One anyway) report it only for the account owners. They do not report it to Employee’s reports either.
Chase, Amex, Citi do not report business cards to personal bureaus even for the main account holder, not to mention Employees.
So, you are totally safe.
Seems to be dead
Yes ends in 7 days from 15th
Just some disclaimers:
Went to buy 3 Visa GC at Office Depot, was denied for “fraud reason” on the terminal. I called immediately, they said that it was unlock and suggested to try in a different terminal (only 3 terminals and the guy said that the 2 other were closed), I asked a manager that accepted to make me pay at the shipping station (another terminal). And I had been still declined.
When calling Shitty bank (sorry CityBank, it’s my pronunciation), they said that the previous CS did a good job and unlock it but still said that it’s better to try another OFFICE DEPOT !!!! (false because my online account still shows it as unlocked). I TRIED ANOTHER one that is 10 miles from here and I was locked again ! So I suspect they block the purchase of gift card but they don’t talk about it on their term and conditions. Again I had a bad customer service with this bank and I confirm this bank is a bank ti churn and not to keep. My 2 cents
Best regards.
My guess is Citi fraud systems are slow to unlock a blocked card and not related to the VGC per se. From experience, Citi can be slow to unlock a blocked card.
DP: I had a biz card recently with sole prop ssn. I applied for a second one with sole prop and ein (still have to enter ssn as well)
The AA biz account was new, but the citi online accounts got linked automatically. And no bonus offer attached. So sole prop with ein does not work, Maybe it needs to be a completely different business name, or even LLC
Seconding this DP. I saw this and decided to try it out anyway. During the application I put my EIN, SSN, and then personal AA number but left the business AA number blank (hoping they’d create a new one). It appears they decided to link the sole prop non-ein and the sole prop EIN account solely from the fact that I used my personal AA number (or they matched SSNs which would be weird because this, AFAIK, would pierce the corporate veil but I digress).
There’s still one last possibility that if you leave both personal AA, and business AA blank in the application that it’ll work if someone decides to give it a whirl.