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Citi Just Raised The Stakes: New Strata Elite 100K Offer, Thousands In 1st Year Value

by Gary Leff

Oct 08 2025

Citi just upped the ante with a new Strata Elite Card offer: 100,000 bonus points after $6,000 spend in 3 months. That alone is impressive, but the math gets better — with $1,200 in first-year credits, including hotel, Splurge, and Blacklane benefits you can double-dip, it’s one of the richest launches in the premium-card space. And because the Strata Elite transfers to American AAdvantage, you’ll actually earn more American miles for everyday spend than with American’s own cards.

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Barclays Cards To Disappear: How Citi’s New Exclusive Deal With American Airlines Will Reshape Your Miles Strategy

by Gary Leff

Dec 05 2024

American Airlines and Citibank have entered into an agreement to extend their cobrand credit card agreement by 10 years. This deal pushes out Barclays, and makes Citi the sole issuer of American Airlines credit cards in the U.S. starting in 2026.

We will start to see points transfers from Citibank to American AAdvantage and likely more.

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Citi Moves to Oust Barclays From American Airlines Cards: What Cardholders Could Lose

by Gary Leff

Sep 20 2024

Barclays just isn’t big enough to bid effectively for the whole American AAdvantage card portfolio. Citibank had the chance to take the whole thing, and also to offer points transfers to AAdvantage as part of its ThankYou-brand card product suite. But they balked at the price. Ultimately American got the biggest deal possible by leaving two card issuers in place. That could change.

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Earn 100,000 Miles & Admirals Club Access with the Citi AAdvantage Executive Card: Limited Time Offer

by Gary Leff

Jun 04 2024

You get this card for the bonus and that’s worth it, you get an Admirals Club membership, and you get loyalty point bonuses if you earn enough loyalty points in the AAdvantage program (you do not have to spend on this card to earn these). It’s probably worth charging an Avis rental to the card. And then you may keep it if you want to retain Admirals Club and the loyalty point bonuses.

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American Airlines Tells Court: Members Who Sign Up For A Friend’s Offer Risk Account Closure

by Gary Leff

Mar 07 2024

Several customers are suing American Airlines after their AAdvantage accounts were shut down. They used invitations to apply for Citibank credit cards that circumvented rules limiting how often one could get a new card bonus. People lost millions of miles.

There’s a lawsuit. American has responded. And they advance a pretty draconian theory.

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