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This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break.

Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy.

Today's coffee break, taking advantage a a's new monogamy city has announced that

they will become the exclusive issuer of American Airlines Advantage credit cards in

the US starting in 2026.

The press release said that the city is going to acquire Barclays American Airlines credit card portfolio and will begin transitioning card members to Citibank in

2026 as well.

So currently both city and Barclays issue American Airlines credit cards, and that's

going to change in a little over a year. So we're going to discuss what that means and how to take

maximum advantage of this situation. Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting situation. I don't

necessarily want to say exciting because losing an issuer means fewer opportunities for welcome bonuses.

But the good news is that there's still an opportunity now because we've got quite a long heads up on this.

Nothing's changing for a while yet, though now we have some idea in mind as to when things are going to change.

So you've got to start making some moves.

I think the other interesting piece of the pie here that came out of the press release

is that they hinted that maybe American Airlines is going to become a city thank you

transfer partner, right?

Yeah, they did.

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