If you have an American Airlines card issued by Barclays, it won’t be a Barclays card for much longer, as AA cards will transition to Citi instead. So what does that mean for you? We’ll answer some common questions about this transition in today’s podcast episode.
Barclays AA cards: planning the transition to Citi
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Read more about the Barclays to Citi transition here.
(00:51) – April 24, 2026, the bank that issues your AAdvantage® credit card is changing from Barclays Bank Delaware to Citibank, N.A. (Citi)
(02:03) – $99 cards
(02:33) – Silver to Globe
See our episode about the Globe card here.
(03:12) – Barclays vs Citi Companion Certs
(11:33) – Should we cancel our Barclays cards before the changeover?
(16:26) – Disadvantages to cancelling BEFORE
(22:55) – Should we apply for Citi AA cards before the changeover?
(24:13) – What are Nick and Greg going to do?
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Thanks for the podcast. It was well needed. One query, though. You seem to talk about making product changes (e.g., to Custom Cash and Double Cash) as a foregone conclusion (option)–if not right away, maybe in a year. Based on some of the reading I have been doing on the issue (including on one of your sites), I have some real concern that the CC and DC may not be made available for PC at all. One conversation seemed to suggest that only Strata Elite and the AT&T card may be the only non-AA cards available. What are your thoughts on this point? My view (err, hope) is that Citi may be flooded with a ton of Barclays Red card holders who get the Platinum card as an unwanted second card and there may be a bit of pressure on Citi to loosen up on available PC cards. Am I hoping too much?
Way too many “we don’t know yet”. Maybe you should have waited until you had more specific information.
can we just be able to read this info, the videos are…..to put it nicely, not so great to watch, I just cannot do it, sorry………..longtime reader here (since the ONE CARD TO RULE THEM ALL ERA) but other than Tim’s post, losing interest in FM lately, Nick’s post are like reading War and Peace (classic example of, more is less)….just my 2 cents
I like the videos, but maybe it would be good to be able to just read it sometimes?
Don’t want to watch it (or use the non-video, podcast version), won’t read it if there’s too many words… Seems like you may be one of those “will never be happy with anything” types.