My post about redeeming ThankYou Points for an airline ticket to Europe or Asia turned out to be one of the most popular posts in this blog. If you can earn enough ThankYou Points from Citi, it’s really a nice plan. Anyway, if we assume that a ticket to Asia or Europe is about $1,000 and you have 60,000 points to redeem a ticket, your earning for using Citi credit card is actually 1.6 point per dollar spent. If you are using Citi mtvU card for college students, your reward will be 5*1.6=8 points for making purchases at restaurants and Amazon.Com.

Another way to get a free airline ticket would be using airline credit card such as AAdvantage Card issued by Citi and United Mileage Plus Card issued by Chase. Today I’m going to briefly introduce how to get enough AAdvantage miles to redeem for an airline ticket.

At Citicards.com, you can only get 20,000 AAdvantage miles for a new AAdvantage credit card. However, Citi sent me two flyers this month both of which will let you get 25,000 AAdvantage miles for a new AAdvantage credit card. That’s 5,000 miles more. The application website is www.away6.citicard.com and www.fly9.citicards.com. Phone number is 800-829-7535 or 800-871-7639. I don’t know why they have two different addresses, but they are actually the same. This offer expires on May 31, 2008. Trust me you’re not going to get two AAdvantage consumer cards, although you have many choices. Another way is to apply for a business card at Citicards.com which will give you 25,000 AAdvantage miles. Ok, you might have 50,000 AAdvantage miles from Citicards. According to AA, 50,000 miles are enough for an economy class ticket to Europe or Asia at off-peak season. (see the detailed requirement)

There are also many other ways to earn AAdvantage miles.

Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express is offering 10,000 bonus points right now. The 10,000 points can be transferred to AAdvantage miles on a 1:1 basis plus 25% bonus miles, that is, 12,500 AAdvantage miles for signing up this card.

Fidelity is offering AAdvantage miles for opening a new non retirement brokerage account. If you deposit $2,500 in the new account, you will get 5,000 miles. If you deposit $10,000, you will get 15,000 miles. If you deposit $50,000, you will get 25,000 miles.

The above mentioned methods are the easiest and quickest ways to earn a huge amount of AAdvantage miles. I believe if you collect all the miles from above mentioned sources, you can get enough AAdvantage miles which are redeemable for a ticket to Europe or Asia.