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Check out the new Citibank American Airlines Bonus
Citibank has updated their AAdvantage offer and extended it. The offer also now includes a companion ticket! See bottom of article for the latest updates.
Citibank has just released the largest new card bonus of American Airlines AAdvantage miles ever, either 100,000 or 75,000 miles depending on which of the accounts you apply for. You can choose from either personal or business cards, all of which have the annual fee waved for the first year. Many have been successful at applying for two or even three cards and qualifying for the bonus miles on each card. Citi will generally posts the bonus miles the day after your statement comes out so this is going to be a great deal for anyone that likes to travel, especially for free!
If you want to receive multiple bonuses all you need to do is apply for a different card type. Citi supposedly will only let you have one AAdvantage personal and one business card, but many have applied for two personal cards and were instantly approved for both. The key is to apply for each card type around the same time (less than 3 hours) before the system can tell that you already have an open AAdvantage card. I applied for a personal Visa and American Express at the same time and was approved for both. Two days later I applied for the business card and was approved for that also.
Citi has set an expiration date for these offers of Oct 31st but given the popularity of these offers it is highly likely they will pull the applications early. See the link below to apply now before this once in a life time bonus disappears!
Personal cards:
Citibank Visa & American Express 75,000 mile offer:
- 75,000 American Airlines bonus miles for spending at least $1500 on the card within the first six months of account opening.
- No annual fee for the first year.
For the Citibank Visa card use this link: Citi Visa AAdvantage offer
For the Citi AmEx card use this link: Citi AMX AAdvantage offer
Citibank Visa and American Express 100,000 mile offer:
- 50, 000 American Airlines bonus miles after spending $750 on the card within the first four months, and an additional 50,000 miles after spending $10,000 within the first 12 months.
- No annual fee for the first year.
For the Citi Visa use this link: Citi 100k visa
For the CitiAMX use this link: Citi 100k AMX
Business cards:
- 75,000 American Airlines bonus miles for spending at least $1500 on the card within the first six months of account opening.
- No annual fee for the first year.
Citi Business Visa 75,000 mile offer use this link: Citi Business Visa
Citibank Visa 100,000 mile offer.
- 50, 000 American Airlines bonus miles after spending $750 on the card within the first four months, and an additional 50,000 miles after spending $10,000 within the first 12 months.
- No annual fee for the first year.
For the Citi Visa Business card use this link: Citi Business Visa offer
After submitting your application online call 1-866-606-2787 to verify your award amount. Have your application ID handy when you call. You can also call if you do not receive instant approval, a credit analyst should be able to decision the application for you immediately.
If you don’t feel like calling Citi -After you get approved for the card enroll your new account into CitiBank online, then send a secure message to customer service and ask them to verify how many bonus miles you will receive.
American Airlines award travel chart:
http://www.aa.com/i18n/disclaimers/aadvantageAllPartnerChart.jsp
If you have any questions regarding this offer, post a comment below and I will be glad to answer any of your questions.
An easy way to meet your spending requirement:
Use Amazon Payments to send money.
You must open two accounts (one to send, one to receive). $1000 monthly send limit, $500 receive limit until you register a bank account.
Make sure you click on “Goods/Services” and not “Cash Advance” when you send!
- Sign up for Amazon Payments
- Send money to “someone else” (your other AP account), which you fund from your card *Select Goods/services*
- Put the money back in your bank account
- Use money to pay credit card off
- Free miles!
Update:
If you are wondering how you can apply for one of the business cards:
You do not need to have a business to sign up for the business cards. They will allow you to sign up under your own name. If you want to play it safe, run down to your county tax office and register a DBA (Doing Business As, a.k.a Fictitious name certificate). You can generally register a DBA for $5 and you should get a copy of your name certificate instantly – allowing you to apply as a business! If you are declined because of the number of applications, give them a call – they should be able to push the application through.
Update 2:
If you are given the 50/50 incentive in which you get the initial 50,000 miles with the other 50,000 miles being awarded after spending $10k and would prefer the 75,000 mile promotion:
I spoke with a rep who said you can call in after receiving the card and make a request for a change of bonus miles/promotion.
Update 3:
To get the application ID for when you call to verify your application and bonus amount do the following:
To find your ID click on view source on the html in your browser, the ApplicationID looks like this
IFRAME src=”https://poc.clixmetrix.com/B25E/97453071D77773E9/?ApplicationID=2010073190XXXX&Zip=xxxxxxxxxx” frameborder=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″
You are looking for ApplicationID=, so then hit the Edit > Find (shortcut: Ctrl+F) and search for this: ApplicationID=
For today it will say ApplicationID=20100809???????, which is today’s date (2010, August, 9th) and your unique 7-digit code (???????).
Update 4:
I was approved for three different cards (Personal Visa, Business Visa and Personal AMX) and met the spending requirements already by buying dollar coins from the US Mint. I received 75,000 for each card for a total of 225,000 miles. The miles posted the my Advantage account the very next day, and I am now planning on using the miles for an around the world One World ticket in Business class! This has been one of the most lucrative offers in the last few years so I encourage everyone to at least apply and see what happens. You could be traveling for free for the next few years compliments of Citibank and American Airlines!
Update 5 11/16:
It looks like Citi changed the offer a bit, but it is still active. Check out the new links at Citi’s website by clicking here.
Update 1/11/2011
Another link with a little lower spending requirements here:
7/1/2011 update:
Looking for a new AAdvantage offer? Citi recently announced a new promo to celebrate American Airlines 30th Anniversary with a card that offers you 60,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles! See our article here for all of the details.
10/22/2011 update:
Citi has finally pulled the plug on this offer. There is still a 60k offer floating around. See our article here for all of the details.
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Molly- check back soon for a new Citi AAdvantage offer.
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