100,000 Mile Offer For Premium American Airlines Card Is Back – View from the Wing

Frequent Miler flags a 100,000 mile bonus offer for the Citi AAdvantage Executive Card, the $595 annual fee card that comes with American Airlines Admirals Club access. The offer requires $10,000 in purchases in the first 3 months.

• This isn’t a great card for spend. 4x on American Airlines purchases (5 after spending $150k on the card in a calendar year); 1x on everything else, though you do earn 10x at aa.com/cars and aa.com/hotels
• But it’s good for earning status. Just having the card means that when you hit each of 50,000 and 90,000 loyalty points in a year in your account you get 10,000 bonus loyalty points.
• American Airlines benefits. Most people getting this card are going to have some sort of status, but worth noting the first checked bag benefit (on domestic American Airlines itineraries for the primary cardholder and up to 8 other passengers on the same PNR); priority check-in, screening, and boarding; 25% savings on inflight food and beverage purchases on American when paying with the card.
• Coverages. They’ve added back trip cancellation and trip delay along with lost luggage protection. You need these if you fly American.
• Admirals Club the card comes with membership for the primary cardholder and access for authorized users (which now come at an extra charge).
• Additional benefits. $120 in statement credits per calendar year for Avis and Budget car rentals; $10 per billing cycle credit with GrubHub; $10 monthly Lyft credit after you take 3 Lyft rides that calendar month; Global Entry or TSA PreCheck application fee credit every 4 years.

Admirals Club, Washington National Airport E Concourse

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. But it’s really not a card for spending generally.

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