The CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® Mastercard® offers an excellent welcome bonus, is anecdotally easy to be approved for, and is a card that many people haven’t applied for in the past, and are therefore eligible for.
In this post I wanted to share seven reasons you should consider applying for this card, assuming you don’t have it already. For a more detailed look at the card, check out my review of the Citi AAdvantage Business Card. Let’s get right into it, in no particular order…
Earn 65,000 AAdvantage bonus miles
The Citi AAdvantage Business Card offers an excellent welcome bonus of 65,000 AAdvantage bonus miles after spending $4,000 within the first four months. I value AAdvantage miles at 1.5 cents each, so to me that bonus is worth nearly $1,000 — that’s huge!
That’s a lot of miles — you’d be just shy of 70,000 AAdvantage miles, which is enough for a one-way business class ticket from the United States to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, India, South America, and more. 75,000 AAdvantage miles is enough for a one-way business class ticket between the United States and South Africa.
Personally, my favorite use of AAdvantage miles is for travel on Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, given their excellent business class products. For example, I’ve redeemed 75,000 AAdvantage miles to fly Qatar Airways business…