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American Airlines Credit Card
Posted on 8/17/26 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 8/17/26 at 8:40 pm
*delete if not this isn’t supposed to be on this board*
Hey y’all figured I’d give it a try on here I’m a younger guy just now trying to get into the points game on credit cards, I have a few credit cards that I’ve used through the last few years to build credit during my college years. I’m looking to get into the American Airlines Globe card to use for the points and travel benefits. Anyone use this card and can tell me some more details?? Thanks in advance
Hey y’all figured I’d give it a try on here I’m a younger guy just now trying to get into the points game on credit cards, I have a few credit cards that I’ve used through the last few years to build credit during my college years. I’m looking to get into the American Airlines Globe card to use for the points and travel benefits. Anyone use this card and can tell me some more details?? Thanks in advance
This post was edited on 8/17/26 at 8:45 pm
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Posted on 8/17/26 at 9:21 pm to T_don
If American is your airline of choice, then it is not bad.
The wife and I each have our own AA credit cards, mainly because we live in DFW and American is 99% of our flights. If you travel enough, the free checked bag will basically pay the yearly fee.
It does accelerate your airline frequent flyer level, which is the main point for us. She is already Platinum and I am gold, should hit platinum by October.
We have around 400,000 miles currently.
You also get free wi-fi on flights, nice little perk.
The wife and I each have our own AA credit cards, mainly because we live in DFW and American is 99% of our flights. If you travel enough, the free checked bag will basically pay the yearly fee.
It does accelerate your airline frequent flyer level, which is the main point for us. She is already Platinum and I am gold, should hit platinum by October.
We have around 400,000 miles currently.
You also get free wi-fi on flights, nice little perk.
Posted on 8/17/26 at 10:04 pm to DarthRebel
We was in flight last year coming back from Mexico and if you signed up in flight( Citi Bank) and used 1k in the first three months AA would give you 80k free miles. I got it , couldn’t believe more people wasn’t signing up
Posted on 8/18/26 at 6:52 am to BowDownToLSU
did you miss the chapter on past tense?
Posted on 8/18/26 at 7:07 am to BowDownToLSU
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AA would give you 80k free miles. I got it , couldn’t believe more people wasn’t signing up
Yup. We were flying to Vegas back in 21 and they were tossing out huge bonus points to sign up. We had another points card at the time. Wife signed up and then was platinum in a year. I finally switched over in 2025. The only negative is the card is tied to one frequent flyer number, thus couples need their own each. Of course you get double the sign-up miles.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 7:17 am to T_don
Are you strictly going to fly AA and you want to use the Globe card for everything to get AA points and use the benefits when you fly? If so then yeah it's probably a decent card to get. If you might think about other airlines and then hotels then I would look at a transferrable points card. My favorite starting card is the Chase Sapphire Preferred. You could also look at Citi cards. Their points can be transferred to AA as well as other options.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 7:37 am to Phate
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Their points can be transferred to AA as well as other options.
Key item is they just transfer to miles and not status points. The status points are many times better than miles. My wife at platinum has been upgraded to first class a few times and when she books, there is also no up-charge for roomier seats. You also earn extra miles and loyalty points when flying.
The key as mentioned before, whatever airline you get a CC through needs to be 90% of your travel.
Posted on 8/18/26 at 8:35 am to Phate
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Are you strictly going to fly AA and you want to use the Globe card for everything to get AA points and use the benefits when you fly? If so then yeah it's probably a decent card to get. If you might think about other airlines and then hotels then I would look at a transferrable points card. My favorite starting card is the Chase Sapphire Preferred. You could also look at Citi cards. Their points can be transferred to AA as well as other options.
This I would be looking into a transferrable travel points card first before getting into specific airline cards unless you just travel by plane a lot. Most airline cards are sock drawer cards, not stuff you should really be putting spending on because the multipliers are all so low typically. I have the Delta business gold card just for the free checked bags and $150 hotel credit. No spend goes on that card really at all.
Citi Strata Premier is a good starter travel card that hits a lot of categories (3x on air/hotel travel booked direct, 3x on dining + Groceries and 3x on gas/ev charging). Some good higher spend categories covered there for most. Citi transfers to AA directly, among some other useful partners. Only downside to this card is the $95 AF isn't very easily recoverable ($100 hotel credit you have to spend at least $500 to trigger and its only through the citi portal) and the sign up bonus is always pretty weak (60k right now) compared to other $95-$99 AF cards. Apparently Chase is targeting people with 125k Sapphire Preferred offers (and 175k Chase Sapphire Reserve offers) which is a huge SUB for that kind of card. My wife just did the 100k one on the CSP recently.
This post was edited on 8/18/26 at 8:38 am
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