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Barclays American Airlines cards planning the transition to Citibank.

If you have an American Airlines card issued by Barclays, it's not going to be a Barclays card much longer.

They're planning to transition all of those cards to Citibank so that

AA will only have one card issuer in the United States, and that is City. And in today's

coffee break, we're going to talk about the ins and outs of what's happening and how you should

maybe play that transition. Should you be looking to cancel your card now? Should you be looking to pick up

in American Airlines card from City now before the transition? These are questions we're getting,

and we're hoping to answer as best we can. Yeah, and if you're listening to this, you're making

the right move because I think that the wrong move would be to have a knee-jerk reaction to the

announcement because there's a lot of complexity.

It's not simple, so you really need to sit and think through it a little bit.

But let's cover the basics first.

On April 24th of 26, Barclay's American Airlines cards will become City American Airlines cards.

So you can keep using your existing card after April 24th, but it's going to become a city card,

and they're going to send you a city version of the card beginning on April 27th,

and sometime within the next six to eight weeks after that. So expect to see a city AAA card in the mail.

And some basics that we know include that your anniversary date's going to stay the same.

If your account has an annual fee, your annual fee will be assessed on or after your next anniversary

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