Barclaycard Introduces American "Flight Cents" -- Buy Miles At A Discount

Did you mean you can upgrade from the RED card?

@ Michael -- I did indeed, thanks. Post updated.

Hi Be, just to let you know The conversion is not 12 months, is 90 days after opening a Red Aviator.

Have the Red card and got the penny-per-mile offer so I signed up. Will definitely cosnider using this card where I never would've before.

I got the 2 cent offer so I am not signing up as it makes zero sense. I would have singed up for the penny offer though.

Same here. 2 cent offer which is a scam... for 1 cent per mile I would definately use this card a lot more. I value AA mile at more than 1 cent and I would consider it as a "vacations savings account"

Mine is offering a 100% multiplier, so 1 cent. I'm tempted.

Got the one cent per mile offer. I was about to put my red card aside as I have enough EQD for the year. Now I am using the card for my daily 7-11 soda refill (1.06)

Logged into my account but can't see any offer

I don't see any sort of offer when I log in to my account. Its a new card, but I know that on a $4.31 purchase I got five miles.

Just received the penny/mile offer on my AAdvantage Aviator Silver Card, so I pulled the trigger. I live in a high cost smaller market, so FF miles on average are worth about 1.8 +/- cents flying out of my market. Case-in-point, a FF East Coast to West FF Economy trip is 25,000 FF miles vs $570, so in that instance 2.28 cents/mile.

So to max it each month assuming you could make all your transactions end in .01, you'd have to do around 500 transactions. And the 2¢ per mile is certainly not worth it.

Interesting! After reading your post, I checked my account and got the 1 cent offer, so I signed up. My guess, they might have targeted small spenders with 1 cent and big spenders with 2 cents, even with the threshold.

I like the concept, but $500 monthly threshold?
Would you really want to be spending $500 a month buying airline miles?

I got the 1 cent one....

All - I too received the 50% multiplier (2 cent) offer. Not only did I not sign up, I actually called and expressed my extreme disappointment. Apparently, this marketing campaign values some Barclaycard customers more than others. There is no way for them to increase the offer to the 100% / one cent level. I had previously raved about the silver benefits (as I'm an Exec Plat and at $50K spend it's a great deal) , but no longer will I tell others about the benefits of this card, as this has kind of pissed me off.

(NOTE; or those that do not see the offer: I was using IE 11, and according to Barclaycard, you should see the offer(s) on the bottom right side of your main page. Once I opened that page using a Chrome browser, I was able to see that and a few other offers as well. Barclaycard's web support was about useless to figure that out.)

I received the one cent per mile offer. My analysis ( http://www.debriantravels.com/blog/2017/9/5/barclaycard-aviator-introduces-flight-cents) is pretty much the same as yours. I will register but I won't shift spend in order to buy miles, something I generally only do if I have a specific need. I get enough promotional opportunities on this card to use off and on throughout the year so I will test the rounding feature on these occasions where I would use the card anyway.

I got a flyer in the mail for the 1 cent offer. I have the Silver card and would consider myself a high spender. It's the only credit card we use as a family and put every purchase on it since we need AA miles to go to Europe and visit family every year. Works well for us and I am excited about the 1 cent offer to add more miles. We typically get two free tickets and have to pay for one as we don't have enough miles.

I got an offer in the mail for the 1 cent per mile. I've had this card since 2011 (when it was a US Air card) so I'm sure they're targeting the longtime users.

I still bristle at the idea of paying much of anything for airline miles. And I'm also old school and log all of my expenses by hand in Quicken, so I could see this round-up being a nuisance, since I would want to separate the amount I'm paying for miles from my actual purchase. Still I'll probably sign up just for the uniqueness of it. I don't use this card very often.

Got the 1 cent offer, 2 months in and I have 100K miles so far. I plan on getting the full 300K miles available. My technique is to refill my Amazon gift card for $1.01 505 times each month, yes it takes a bit of time but you can't buy miles cheaper anywhere.

I just learned about FlightCents when I received my statement today. It seems great to me: right now I get one mile per dollar I spend, now I can get 1 mile for every 2 cents. That's a 500% increase! Unless I'm missing something it sounds good to me!

Joseph, if this is the Barclay Card FlightCents program then you actually PAY for the additional miles, they are not the same as spend a dollar and get a free mile. You pay 2 cents for 1 mile. It's an okay trade. I was lucky to get the pilot program with the better rate and it was a good deal. I am still debating if I sign up now for the program at buying 2 cents per 1 mile for the rounded up amount.

Jan 2020 - Just got the Barclay's card for the sign-up bonus (even though I have the Citi Exec World Elite MC card too). The terms for FlightCents are now:
"You'll get 1/2 AAdvantage® mile for every 1¢ you round up, up to your threshold amount."

Seems worse than the initial 2017 offer.