{"id":12224,"date":"2025-07-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:22:56","slug":"monday-citi-aa-transfers-strata-elite-smartly-downgrade-lifemiles-transfer-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/monday-citi-aa-transfers-strata-elite-smartly-downgrade-lifemiles-transfer-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: Citi AA Transfers, Strata Elite, Smartly Downgrade, LifeMiles Transfer Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Citi ThankYou Points added AA as a 1:1 transfer partner<\/a> for the Citi Prestige, Strata, and Strata Elite cards.

    Don’t worry, I checked so you don’t have to. AA Does fly to     Preston Smith International Airport<\/a>.
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  2. The Citi Strata Elite card launched over the weekend with a 100,000 ThankYou Point bonus in branch or an 80,000 ThankYou Point sign-up bonus online<\/a> after $4,000 spend in three months and a $595 annual fee. The card’s highlights:

    – 6x on restaurants on Friday and Saturday nights (Eastern Time)
    – 3x on restaurants the rest of the time
    – 1.5x elsewhere
    – $300 annual hotel credit through Citi Travel
    – Four AA Admirals Club day passes annually

    There are spend bigger bonuses for booking through the often price-inflated Citi Travel portal, and other, lamer coupons and duplicative features too. Personally, I’d just stick with the $95 annual-fee Strata Premier with better bonus categories and (often) an 80,000 point sign-up bonus.
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  3. Existing US Bank Smartly card holders transition to the new Smartly earning scheme on September 15<\/a>, which only offers boosted cash-back on up to $10,000 spend a month, and excludes categories like education, business, and third party bill payment services from earning.

    This was a smartly move for US Bank and a lamely move for the rest of us. (Sorry, the fruit was just too low hanging, I couldn’t help myself.)
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  4. Bilt’s Rent Day promotion for August 1 is a 20%-100% transfer bonus to Avianca LifeMiles<\/a> depending on your status. Why mention it now? You’ve still got today and maybe tomorrow to earn more Bilt points.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    The last fire at Preston Smith was Southwest, not AA. So probabilistically speaking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Monday! The last fire at Preston Smith was Southwest, not AA. So probabilistically speaking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12230,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions\/12230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}