Citi ThankYou points can now be transferred to American Airlines at a rate of 1:1 for Chairman, Prestige, Premier cardholders and 1:0.5 until Preferred, Citi Rewards+. This is a limited time offer until 11/13/21, normally transfers to American Airlines aren’t possible.
I hope we can do it reversely…. not connected by a diode.
And then American will confiscate and delete them.
I am currently using my first citi premier card and will not receive the 80k TYP until the end of this month. Any suggestions regarding how to make the best use of the points? I don’t see myself flying in a long time. Maybe redeeming them for $800?
What did you end up doing?? Can these be used as a statement credit?
Will this be extended?
Doesn’t seem like it at this stage
I have both Premier and Rewards+; Can I combine points, transfer from Premier to Rewards+ to have total of 100K and then transfer to AA and get the 10% rebate? I have logged in to TY website, but the combine points option is blank. Any tips?
You need to contact agent. It used to be able to do that before they UPDATED Thankyou website. I have another TYP card unable to combine with others online as well.
The reason your “combine points” option is blank is because the information on both your account is not an exact match. It could be something as simple as missing middle initial or home address spread across two lines instead of one… everything has to line up exactly.
You can do this online yourself if you can spot the minute differences and update one of your accounts to match the other or call and agent and have them clean it up for you.
Mine was different security words preventing them combining online, must call agent, chat didn’t work.
Yes, you will get 10% back immediately. Remember, only first 100k gets 10%.
Call agent to combine them, they know this issue very well.
Thanks for the warning about 100k points. I assume that is per calendar year? I just got 80,000 points for the Premier card and did 30,000 for Custom Cash earlier. Maybe I should hold off redeeming some of the 80k points until 2022.
The secret is that both TY accounts need to have the same information, including phone numbers. I had that issue, I opened some accounts in branch and the rep did not enter all of my phone numbers so they were blank. Now my Rewards+, Custom Cash and Premier accounts are all on the same TY account. And I get the 10% points rebate that the Rewards+ card has with any redemption.
it took ~9 hours for the miles to show up at AA.
Bro but what’s your verdict??
Why do you need a verdict? Everyone should have their own. How often do you fly AA? Do you find value in their program? Do you have status with them that can give added value (free upgrades with EP)? How does that value compare with other transfer programs you use?
No one has the same verdict. For me, I use them frequently and have EP status. I find great value in the program. I often find one way fares over 1500 miles for 7500 miles. I recently flew business class Mia to Lax for that rate (with free upgrade). My verdict is a big go for it. But many others are very critical of AA for their own understandable reasons.
Premier/prestige pairing with Rewards+ would be 1:1.11
If Citi can make AA a permanent transfer partner then I predict good things for credit cards. Chase and AMEX will have to up their game with a 3rd legit competitor in the US.
It actually makes sense – as AA/Citi already have an existing partnership.
Personally, it’s not the most appealing ATM as AA sweet spot has been partner Awards for
Int’l Biz/1st seats and COVID19 – has made using award seats a challenge.
FINALLY! Hopefully this is a pilot program that ends up working well enough for AA to become a permanent Citi transfer partner. That’d make Citi’s own non-cobranded cards the best way to earn AA miles at 3X – 5X.