Barclays AA cards: planning the transition to Citi | Coffee Break Ep91 | 2-3-26

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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

Watch the full episode below, or listen on your favorite podcast platform. You can click the timestamps below to navigate directly to a specific part of the episode within YouTube. For a transcript of this episode, click “Watch on Youtube” on the video below, then click the “…more” link in the video description. This will expand full video details. Scrolling down past the timestamps and chapters, you’ll see a “Show Transcript” button. If you’re an Apple Podcast listener, you can touch and hold a podcast episode to reveal an option to view a transcript.

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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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Théo

Way too many “we don’t know yet”. Maybe you should have waited until you had more specific information.

The Real Bunny Lebowski

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

Charles

I like the videos, but maybe it would be good to be able to just read it sometimes?

rpar

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.