AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Card: New 75k-mile Offer

Update:The offer mentioned below has expired and is no longer available.

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World Elite™ Mastercard® is back with its best-ever welcome bonus of 75,000 AAdvantage miles!

We haven’t seen a bonus this large on the AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite card since last summer. So, if you’re looking to boost your balance of AAdvantage miles, read on to see if this card makes sense for you.

Table of Contents

AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Card Welcome Bonus Details
AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Card Earnings and Benefits
How To Redeem 75,000 American AAdvantage Miles
Final Thoughts

AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Card Welcome Bonus Details

For a limited time, you can earn 75,000 American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles after spending $3,500 in purchases within the first 4 months of account opening. Plus, the $99 annual fee is waived for your first year of membership.

We value American Airlines miles at 1.4 cents per mile, making this welcome bonus worth $1,050 in our view — which is a 30% return on the minimum spend requirement!

AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Card Earnings and Benefits

Welcome bonus aside, here’s what else the AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite card can offer you:

2x miles per $1 spent on eligible American Airlines purchases
2x miles per $1 spent at gas stations and restaurants
1x mile per $1 on all other purchases

The card also comes with the following benefits:

1x Loyalty Point per $1 spent on the card towards American Airlines elite status
First checked bag free on domestic American Airlines itineraries for you and up to 4 travel companions on the same reservation
Preferred boarding
25% savings on inflight food and beverage purchases
No foreign transaction fees
Earn a $125 American Airlines flight discount after you spend $20,000 or more in purchases during your card membership year

How To Redeem 75,000 American AAdvantage Miles

Qatar, QSuites, 11F & 11E, Boeing 777 — Fly from the U.S. to Doha in Qatar Airways Qsuites for 70,000 miles. Image Credit: Alex Miller

American Airlines miles can be quite valuable for premium cabin redemptions with its Oneworld partners like Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, and Qatar Airways.

One redemption that is frequently mentioned is the ability to redeem 70,000 AAdvantage miles to fly the Qatar Qsuites between the U.S. and the Middle East or Indian subcontinent… but did you know you can add on a flight segment to eligible African cities for just 5,000 more miles?

This includes flying all the way to South Africa! That’s right, for 5,000 more miles you can add the nearly 10-hour flight in Qsuites between Doha and Cape Town. Altogether, that gives you about 23 hours in one of the best business class cabins in the world, all for just 75,000 AAdvantage miles.

Hot Tip: Read through our suggestions on the best ways to redeem American Airlines AAdvantage miles for maximum value!

Final Thoughts

Since AAdvantage is one of the few programs to not be partnered with a major transferable points currency, it can be difficult to earn American Airlines miles quickly. Fortunately, welcome bonuses on the variety of American Airlines credit cards offer the perfect opportunity to do just that!

The information regarding the Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World Elite™ Mastercard® was independently collected by Upgraded Points and not provided nor reviewed by the issuer.

7 comments

Ryan June 17, 2022

When I click through the link, it’s a standard 50k miles bonus. Not 75k.

Jarrod West June 17, 2022
Hi Ryan,
It should work through this link! Thanks for reading!
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- GD August 1, 2022
  This link didn’t work either, flashes the 50k offer and loads a 404 error.
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David September 1, 2022

Hi Jarrod,

I tried doing this a month or so ago as well and got an error message. Now I only get a 50K offer. I did receive a 60k offer in the mail today…

What do you think…should I apply for the 60k miles (with $99 refund of annual fee) or hold out and see if the 75K offer comes up again?

Thanks!
David

Jarrod West September 6, 2022
Hi David,
It depends on how much you value American Airlines’ miles. Personally, I’d rather have the extra 15,000 miles as I know I will get more value out of them than $99, but to each their own.
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Tim April 15, 2023

Applied for this sign-up offer, but was instantly denied by Citi. Credit score 815, two new cards opened recently (Amex Green Card 12/7/22) and (Amex Gold 1/6/23). Denial reason was “high amount of unused credit compared to available credit lines” and that I had “recently opened one or more accounts.” Called recon and they said that there’s nothing they could do as this AAdvantage card is not available for reconsideration for the reasons that they flagged me on. I asked her if this was a Citibank policy or solely the AAdvantage card policy and she confirmed that it was the latter. Seem like AA may have increased the sign-up offer, but also increased the difficulty to be approved for it. 🙁