Over the weekend I received an email from Citibank telling me that existing American Airlines co-branded cardholders would receive 1000 miles for registering for the promo this morning as part of American’s 30 Deals in 30 Days to celebrate 30 years of their frequent flyer program. So I blogged it and set it to be published early this morning, no sense posting the offer before it was live when it was about to go live, I figured folks would read it and register rather than having to remember to do it later.
Well, the offer today is actually a signup bonus for new cardholders and the 1000 miles for current cardholders appears to be more of a consolation prize.
Today’s card signup offer is:
First time Citi® / AAdvantage® credit cardmembers can earn 30,000 AAdvantage bonus miles after making $1,000 in purchases within 4 months of becoming a cardmember. Plus, earn an additional 30,000 AAdvantage bonus miles after making $10,000 in purchases during your first 12 months as a credit cardmember!*
Now, that’s a good offer but it’s not even the best current offer out there, which is surprising, though in fairness it may be the best broadly advertised offer to date and they may not even realize that there are better offers from the past which have yet to be de-activated.
There’s been a 100,000 mile signup offer around for awhile (also discussed here in December): 50,000 miles after $2000 in purchases within 4 months, another 25,000 miles after $10,000 in purchases within the first year, and an additional 25,000 miles after $10,000 in purchases during the second year. The annual fee is waived the first year. That’s probably the best ‘current’ offer available.
I’ve heard some reports of folks still getting the 75,000 miles for $1500 in spend within six months and also the 100,000 miles for $10,000 in spend within a year. But I can’t speak from personal experience on that one, the offer was set to expire back at the end of October, plus we only have application pages for these offers and not landing pages that detail/promise the points so it’s one for the gambling set I suppose. They’re easier and quicker offers, but not guaranteed.
Got the 75K last year and thanks for the 1K bonus.
Sorry, I’m a bit confused. The title of your post states that it’s 100K miles for new cardmembers. But the deal terms seem to state that it’s 30K + 30K = 60,000 miles.
What am I missing?
@CDiddy you’re missing the link to the ongoing offer, not today’s offer, that does provide 100k miles…
I’m not seeing how we can get the “consolation prize” if we’re an existing cardmember…
Thanks for the clarification Gary. I was thinking there was a new 100K miles offer for the $10K spend.
@Wes, click the link from the post, enter your AA number, then select the option that says “Already a card member”
Tried two different browsers and I’m still not seeing the 1k consolation prize “Already a card member” link… Just the “Don’t have a card” link.
Link is not there for existing cardholders, 1:53 PM CDT
#1. I signed up for the 100,000 miles card (spending $10,000 in a year) in Feb. 2011 and got it.
#2. Since I live in Alaska, and 4 hours behind the East Coast, I saw the offer for the ‘consolation prize’ last night before going to bed. Got it. They said it would be posted by 6/15/11. I’m not seeing the consolation option anymore on the web
site.
Is that to say that the 100k offer is still alive?
so AA offers something and then re-thinks the offer? really what a way to run a reward program, how small minded and stingy
@pretty — The consolation prize was only offered for one day. The folks at AA did not change their mind.
One day. It really was available for about 10-11 hours, before it disappeared. My AA/Citi email alert didn’t mention anything about a limit on how many they would award.
I rolled the dice and used the link for the AA Visa 75k bonus with $1500 spend (follow the link above to the old post and go from there), was approved for the card last night, and just verified that the promotion was applied. 🙂
I followed the links above to one of the older pages and applied for the Citi personal Visa 100k miles when you spend $750 in 4 months and $10k in a year. I applied and got approved last week 5/30. I called to make sure I’m getting the promo and it still checks out.