American Airlines picks Citi as sole credit card partner, drops Barclays

American Airlines has completed a long-awaited credit card deal with Citigroup, dropping its other partner, Barclays.

The airline said Thursday that it expects payments it receives from its co-branded credit card and other partners to grow 10% a year. In the 12 months through Sept. 30, American brought in $5.6 billion from these deals.

American said it would start…