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60K - 110K American Airline Points | $0-2500 spend | $0 annual fee for year 1

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60k points - AAdvantage World Elite Mastercard from Barclays. Just for opening the card, and making a single purchase, you will earn 60,000 American Airlines miles. The card's $99 annual fee is even waived in your first year of card membership.

https://www.applyaviator.com

50K points - This card currently has a welcome offer bonus to earn 50,000 AAdvantage Miles after spending $2,500 within the three months of card membership. And the card's $99 annual fee is also waived for the first year of card membership.

https://citicards.citi.com/usc/LP...index.html

Put these two cards together, and spend just $2,500 on the other (the Citi Platinum Select World Elite card) in the first three months. Bam: You've got 110,000 American Airlines miles. All without paying an annual fee in your first year.

That's an easier (and cheaper) path to pile up more than 100,000 miles than you'll find with almost any other airline. Of course, it requires opening two credit cards and responsibly meeting the minimum spending requirement
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Created 01-16-2023 at 12:58 AM by Masterregal
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dealer10
01-19-2023 at 07:27 AM.
01-19-2023 at 07:27 AM.
Thanks OP, looks like a great deal. I'm facing a issue, when I fill out the application for the AAdvantage World Elite Mastercard from Barclays, it processes for a second but is still on the application form , nothing happens and does not proceed further . Any ideas?
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dontwannaspend
01-19-2023 at 02:05 PM.
01-19-2023 at 02:05 PM.
Just curious. Do people frequently close credit cards and reapply whenever there's an offer? I feel maybe I'm an idiot for holding on to cards I rarely use.
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vikp51
01-19-2023 at 03:23 PM.
01-19-2023 at 03:23 PM.
Quote from jza1218 :
I churn through multiple cards and stockpile points. My AMEX pts can go toward United or ANA. United co-branded cards, etc.

I got 400K Amex membership rewards last year just from the Resy sign up bonus and 10X dining and small business for example
Ah okay. I was under the impression that you were getting 70k AA miles every year. AMEX is probably the best to redeem ANA flights to Japan.
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vikp51
01-19-2023 at 03:26 PM.
01-19-2023 at 03:26 PM.
Quote from dontwannaspend :
Just curious. Do people frequently close credit cards and reapply whenever there's an offer? I feel maybe I'm an idiot for holding on to cards I rarely use.
The main reason you would close a card is to reduce your overall credit limit so you can get approved by other issuers. For cards with annual fees, you can usually downgrade them to no-annual fee cards (and even ask for your credit limit to be lowered if you don't plan on using it too much). This is a better option than closing as it doesn't impact your credit score.
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vikp51
01-19-2023 at 03:30 PM.
01-19-2023 at 03:30 PM.
Quote from CheapOismynameO :
Do you know if you can open this for 2 separate people and deposit all the points in 1 account?
Yes, but there's a transfer fee imposed by AA. Rate depends on how much is transferred. I believe it's $15 per 1k miles. So to transfer 60k miles, it should be $900.
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CheapOismynameO
01-19-2023 at 11:11 PM.
01-19-2023 at 11:11 PM.
Quote from vikp51 :
Yes, but there's a transfer fee imposed by AA. Rate depends on how much is transferred. I believe it's $15 per 1k miles. So to transfer 60k miles, it should be $900.
I was referring to the sign up process where you enter your aa mileage number. Can you enter the same aa number for 2 applications where it all gets deposited into 1 reward account?
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BJFish
01-20-2023 at 07:42 AM.
01-20-2023 at 07:42 AM.
Yesterday i applied for the 80K Business card and got approved instantly for 14k and then about 5 minutes later i applied for this 60K personal card that only requires 1 purchase and that said pending and didn't approve instantly but about 2 hours later i got an email saying approved.
I'm pretty sure Barclays combines the 2 hard pulls into 1 hard pull cause it was in the same day. That is why i tried it and surprisingly it worked. That is 140K points for 1 hard pull. Amazing. JAL biz class is great way to spend them.
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michaelpatrick.barry
01-20-2023 at 07:41 PM.
01-20-2023 at 07:41 PM.
Quote from namlook :
I have a lot of points but would never use them for business class. I can take twice as many trips on economy with the points.

You can typically buy 4-6x as many economy flights for what a business class ticket costs. The value is always in a business award.
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BJFISHY
01-20-2023 at 08:46 PM.
01-20-2023 at 08:46 PM.
Quote from namlook :
I have a lot of points but would never use them for business class. I can take twice as many trips on economy with the points.
35k to Tokyo on economy or 60k on Jal business class. $500 ish bucks for 1 way to Tokyo economy. $2.5k for business class. I don't think you are understanding the math. If you want business class using points to buy it is an amazing deal. 60k points say are equal to $600 and 35k points $350. You are getting way better value out of the business class award ticket. But if you want to get crammed in like sardines go right ahead. Have fun!
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rangerz
01-20-2023 at 11:22 PM.
01-20-2023 at 11:22 PM.
very poor sign up bonus to destroy two slots in 5/24 limit (chase) — which you should learn about if you are interested in accumulating card points specifically for hotel / travel.

Two card signups should net a bigger yield than a measly 110K. You shouldn't do this unless you have a specific use case in mind.

These sort of poor deals get "promoted" as CC signups earn big affiliate $. The financial incentive tied to driving a sign up will prevent most websites (sd, blogs, nerdwallet etc) from noting a CC bonus sucks, because they will earn $50-200+ when you sign up.

one of the better sites (w/o affiliate linking shill posts) = drofcredit, for any interested

as an aside for any with miles- AA was running R/T to Chile for 40K this week, which was quite rare.
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Masterregal
01-20-2023 at 11:36 PM.
01-20-2023 at 11:36 PM.
Quote from CheapOismynameO :
Do you know if you can open this for 2 separate people and deposit all the points in 1 account?

I've def done that with delta branded cards
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Masterregal
01-20-2023 at 11:37 PM.
01-20-2023 at 11:37 PM.
Quote from rangerz :
very poor sign up bonus to destroy two slots in 5/24 limit (chase) — which you should learn about if you are interested in accumulating card points specifically for hotel / travel.

Two card signups should net a bigger yield than a measly 110K. You shouldn't do this unless you have a specific use case in mind.

These sort of poor deals get "promoted" as CC signups earn big affiliate $. The financial incentive tied to driving a sign up will prevent most websites (sd, blogs, nerdwallet etc) from noting a CC bonus sucks, because they will earn $50-200+ when you sign up.

one of the better sites (w/o affiliate linking shill posts) = drofcredit, for any interested

as an aside for any with miles- AA was running R/T to Chile for 40K this week, which was quite rare.

As someone who's already got all the chase cards I could want for now, I don't mind. I stick with CUR and cashback amex. So it's really dependent upon the individual
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namlook
01-20-2023 at 11:45 PM.
01-20-2023 at 11:45 PM.
Quote from BJFISHY :
35k to Tokyo on economy or 60k on Jal business class. $500 ish bucks for 1 way to Tokyo economy. $2.5k for business class. I don't think you are understanding the math. If you want business class using points to buy it is an amazing deal. 60k points say are equal to $600 and 35k points $350. You are getting way better value out of the business class award ticket. But if you want to get crammed in like sardines go right ahead. Have fun!
I totally understand the dollar value if you were to pay cash, but business class is just not worth anywhere near $2.5k to me. It's an absurd, inflated price. Looks great on paper in terms of redemption value though, I'll give you that.
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rangerz
01-20-2023 at 11:59 PM.
01-20-2023 at 11:59 PM.
Quote from Masterregal :
As someone who's already got all the chase cards I could want for now, I don't mind. I stick with CUR and cashback amex. So it's really dependent upon the individual
I agree it's individual preference, but I don't think most SD visitors to be versed with credit card churning and may be (unintentionally) led to believe this is a good deal, as there is no frame of reference for point values (unless tracking CC promos).

Readers should know the "game" is to maximize sign on bonus points as the airlines will keep devaluing points and you'll need more to take that free trip you want.

Citi's AA card often gives 80k points, and is the 'standard' amount of points to expect for AA cards from one CC. The 80K Barclays is a standard/decent deal.
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BJFISHY
01-21-2023 at 05:27 AM.
01-21-2023 at 05:27 AM.
Quote from namlook :
I totally understand the dollar value if you were to pay cash, but business class is just not worth anywhere near $2.5k to me. It's an absurd, inflated price. Looks great on paper in terms of redemption value though, I'll give you that.

I don't think it matters what's worth it or not to you. Business class literally takes up like six economy class seats like physically takes up that much room. I've flown business class quite a few times. It's extremely worth it, especially on the way home from Asia back to America. That is where I get the most jet lag. That is the roughest flight. But I've also flown it from San Francisco to Singapore and it's flat out amazing. I've never paid the dollar amount. It's always been with miles redeeming. And that's my point. Using miles to redeem for business class is an extremely good deal. You cannot fight it at all. You're literally physically taking up like six economy class seats for less than half the amount of miles more.
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