Citibank and American Airlines have rebranded their small business card. It’s now the Citi® / AAdvantage Business^TM World Elite Mastercard®. This reflects the new value proposition in conjunction with the airline’s small business program, AAdvantage Business that lets you double dip earning transferrable miles in a business account in addition to miles earned by the traveler for flying.

And with this refresh there’s a limited time offer to earn 75,000 American AAdvantage bonus miles after $5,000 in purchases within the first 5 months of account opening. The card’s $99 annual fee is waived for first 12 months. [See rates and fees]

• This new offer is 10,000 miles higher than the previous one, and matches the best previous total miles offer for this card in the past. It comes with first checked bag on domestic American Airlines itineraries for the primary cardholder and preferred boarding on American Airlines flights as well.

• Earning is 2 AAdvantage miles per $1 spent on eligible American Airlines purchases, and on purchases at telecommunications merchants, cable and satellite providers, car rental merchants and at gas stations; 1 AAdvantage mile per $1 spent on other purchases; 1 Loyalty Point for every 1 eligible mile earned from purchases.

Here’s how the card works with AAdvantage business.

• Miles earned on the card (including the initial bonus) accrue into your AAdvantage Business account. If you don’t already have one, they open one for you, and you access it with your AAdvantage account number and password.

• Those miles can be transferred from your business account into your personal AAdvantage account, or into the AAdvantage accounts of any travelers you register/attach to your AAdvantage Business account.

• Normally companies need to meet $5,000 spend and 5 traveler minimums to transfer points out of an AAdvantage Business account, but cardholders have these minimums waived.

• While any authorized employee cards accrue miles into the AAdvantage Business account, Loyalty Points towards status from card spend accrue to each traveler’s own AAdvantage account.

• When travelers flag their solo trips for work when booking direct with American they also earn an extra Loyalty Point per dollar spent on tickets – as do you – so Citi® / AAdvantage Business^TM World Elite Mastercard® cardmembers earn AAdvantage status faster.

• Earning in the AAdvantage Business program is three times as fast for those with this card provided that tickets are purchased with the card: base earn in AAdvantage Business is one mile per dollar spent on travel, while cardholders earn an additional two miles per dollar spent on travel credited to that account.

  

Getting the card historically hasn’t added to 5/24 (for getting approved for Chase cards), according to most reports I’ve seen. You can have this card even if you have a Citi or Barclays consumer card, and even if you already have a Barclays AAdvantage small business card. And anecdotally I’ve found the card easy to get, with readers reporting great success.

You can generally only receive an initial bonus on a Citi card every 48 months. I recently got this card again because I wanted to use an AAdvantage Business account, and because I realized it had been a little over four years since I’d had it previously. Note of course that this limitation applies to the same specific card, not to card families. I also hold a Citi Executive card, and that didn’t get in the way of being approved or earning a bonus. I also have a Barclays Aviator Silver card – you can have a Barclays AAdvantage card and Citi AAdvantage card at the same time.