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Citi Strata PremierSM Card (See rates and fees.)
Citi currently has an outstanding limited time initial bonus on one of the best rewards cards that opens up their ThankYou Rewards ecosystem – and all of its transfer partners.
Their “Strata” card is the rebranded Citi Premier Card with some improvements. Citi Premier is no longer available, and existing cardmembers get switched to this new card. They aren’t losing anything. These are the same cards, more or less, which is why having had Premier counts as the same card (or card family) for purposes of new cardmember bonus eligibility.
- Initial bonus: For a limited time, earn 75,000 bonus ThankYou® Points after spending $4,000 in the first 3 months of account opening, redeemable for $750 in gift cards or travel rewards at thankyou.com.
- Earn: 10 points per $1 spent on Hotels, Car Rentals, and Attractions booked on CitiTravel.com; 3 points per $1 on Air Travel and Other Hotel Purchases, at Restaurants, Supermarkets, Gas and EV Charging Stations; 1 Point per $1 spent on all other purchases.
- Annual fee: $95
- Additional benefits: $100 hotel credit on stay of $500 or more booked through the Citi Travel portal, once per calendar year.
EV charging earn is new with Strata, and 10x on eligible spend through the travel portal becomes a benefit of the card (it was previously deemed a limited-time offer). They’ve also added several travel protections to the card, rolling back a previous elimination, recognizing that they – like other issuers – went too far with cuts in the past.
Points can be transferred to a variety of frequent flyer programs, including:
- SkyTeam: Aeromexico Club Premier, Air France KLM Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
- oneworld: Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, Malaysia Airlines Enrich, Qantas Frequent Flyer, Qatar Airways Privilege Club
- Star Alliance: Avianca LifeMiles, EVA Air Infinity MileageLands, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer, Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus, Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles
- Non-alliance: Emirates Skywards, Etihad Guest, JetBlue TrueBlue,
Emirates first class: They left the bottle.
Citi’s card ecosystem is going to work for many. Remember that points from the no annual fee Double Cash card can be combined with these points and then transferred, and that card earns 2x on all spend. You’d never have to earn just one point per dollar on your spending.
*yawn* Wake us up when Citi releases Strata Elite or whatever they’re calling the replacement for the Prestige card!
And they will likely transfer to American in the near future. Easy choice to get this card as well as the Alaska Airlines card for One World/AA hook up
@AC — Bringing back AA as a transfer partner would be swell, but ‘talk is cheap,’ as they say. The reality is that there is no time frame whatsoever. So, it could be tomorrow, next year, or never.