Citi® Platinum Select® / AAdvantage® Visa Signature® Card

From the CompareCards.com Editorial Team:

With this Citi Platinum Select AAdvantage credit card  – which was designed for those who like to travel on American Airlines – you get one air mile reward for every dollar you spend on anything. There is no annual fee for first year of membership and you can earn 30,000 bonus miles by simply making at least $1,000 worth of purchases with your Citi Gold AAdvantage card during the first four months of your card enrollment.

The Citi Aadvantage card card offers some reduced air rewards fares to selected cities for domestic travel, so instead of waiting to accumulate tons of points you can cash in for a ticket after you have saved as few as 20,000 points. Awards points can expire if you don’t use your card at all for 18 consecutive months. But when you use your Citi Platinum Aadvantage card the expiration clock gets reset so you don’t have to lose them as long as you keep the account going.

After the first year fee is waived the annual fee reverts to $50 per year – which is a pretty reasonable fee as far as airline rewards cards go.

The Bottom-Line
For those who want to accumulate credit card rewards that can be used to fly on American Airlines, this a pretty decent card with an annual fee that is waived for the first year.

The Good
You don’t have to worry about points expiring as long as you use the card at least once every 18 months, and you can earn 30,000 points within the first four months by using the card for at least $1,000 worth of purchases. The annual fee is also waived in year one.

The Not So Good
There is an annual fee of $50 starting the second year, and almost all of the benefits of this card are built around American Airlines travel. So if you don’t fly with that carrier it won’t do you much good.