Last November I wrote a post speculating that American AAdvantage would eventually be added as a Citi ThankYou mileage transfer partner. It was purely speculation on my part, but I predicted that after American’s AAdvantage award chart devaluation, they’d eventually be added as a Citi ThankYou transfer partner.
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Which will happen first: 1) AA becoming a TYP transfer partner; 2) Diners Club taking new applications; 3) Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton revealing that the whole 2016 election is part of their secret Truman Show conspiracy; 4) a peace deal with Israel & the Palestinians? 😀
I have wanted this to happen so badly. I also want the Prestige golf round benefit to be redeemable all at once or at least two at once so I can treat folks to a round. #wishfulthinking
The decision to give AA miles instead of TY points doesn't depend if AA is willing or not. I - personally - can give AA points to anyone (either by buying it directly on AA's website, or partnering with points.com, or even buying it in bulk and then distributing it - which is what Citi has done).
Citi is already giving a great value for their TY points (1.33-1.6 cents for buying airline tickets thru their partner, or exchanging it for airline miles). It would be a great addition and a perfect fit if they would add AA miles as another option.
Another potential option that is purely speculative: Barclaycard creating their own transferable points currency with their existing cobrands? American, Hawaiian, Lufthansa, Wyndham...any others I'm missing?
Pie in the sky conjecture 🙂
AA saver redemption has turned to s@#t anyways, so it doesn't matter. Better off just using the TYP at 1.6 cents toward airfare.
@Lucky
"American AAdvantage points can’t be transferred to Citi ThankYou" i think you mean the other way around.
By my math, 70,000 TYP would be worth $1,120 on American. However, if they transferred 1:1 to American then I could get a one-way business class flight to the Middle East on Etihad, which is worth $3,000-5,000. So, I'd much rather use the points than the dollars, they have better value for premium cabins since dollar wise they are 3-7 times more expensive than economy but with points are only about 2 times more expensive.
Speaking of Ethiad, since they use AA's old award chart, why not just transfer that was?
Surely they're not anticipating significantly new revenue from stingy Barclay. Everyone who wants an AAviator card already has one. How large is the pool of possible card applicants who do not have the AAviator card and can pass Barclay's muster? Barclay can be just as persnickety as Chase in denying credit for too many account/inquiries. I'm thinking AA transferability is the only reason for their rosy financial outlook.
Oddly Delta is the Citi ThankYou transfer partnerh here in Hong Kong and the rest of the world but US