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-'''The American Airlines business cards offer a $99 companion certificate with $30,000 of spending'''. Certificates are limited to economy-class tickets in the continental United States. Both Citibank's and Barclay's version of the card offer this benefit. Since the reward rate on these cards aren’t the highest, spending this much money would cause you to miss out on about $400 in extra rewards that you could have gotten from a better card. The companion ticket still costs $99 plus taxes, so you are essentially paying over $500 for the companion ticket, not including the card’s annual fee.  It is certainly possible to get more value than that, but it is probably not worth dealing with a certificate that can potentially expire. $95-99 annual fee.
+'''The American Airlines business cards offer a $99 companion certificate with $30,000 of spending—this can be a great deal if you are already using the card for a lot of spending to reach the next status level'''. Certificates are limited to economy-class tickets in the continental United States. Both Citibank's and Barclay's version of the card offer this benefit. Since the reward rate on these cards aren’t the highest, spending this much money would cause you to miss out on about $400 in extra rewards that you could have gotten from a better card. The companion ticket still costs $99 plus taxes, so you are essentially paying over $500 for the companion ticket, not including the card’s annual fee.  It is certainly possible to get more value than that, but it is probably not worth dealing with a certificate that can potentially expire. $95-99 annual fee.
 However, if you are planning on doing a bunch of credit spending to close the gap to the next American Airlines elite status level, you might already be most of or all the way to earning the certificate, making it a much better value and deserving of being place in the good section.
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-'''The Aviator Red and Silver cards offer a better deal'''.  The spending requirement for the Aviator Red and Silver cards is only $20,000 per anniversary, reducing the effective cost of the certificate to around $350 plus taxes. If you upgrade to the $195 Aviator Silver card, the same amount of spending gets you a certificate that you can use for two companions (instead of one). For people who are likely to use the certificate for three people, the Aviator Silver certificate probably deserves to be moved up to the "good" section.
+'''The Aviator Red and Silver cards offer a better deal than the AA business cards'''.  The spending requirement for the Aviator Red and Silver cards is only $20,000 per anniversary, reducing the effective cost of the certificate to around $350 plus taxes. If you upgrade to the $195 Aviator Silver card, the same amount of spending gets you a certificate that you can use for two companions (instead of one). For people who are likely to use the certificate for three people, the Aviator Silver certificate probably deserves to be moved up to the "good" section.
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 '''The American Airlines business cards offer a $99 companion certificate with $30,000 of spending'''. Certificates are limited to economy-class tickets in the continental United States. Both Citibank's and Barclay's version of the card offer this benefit. Since the reward rate on these cards aren’t the highest, spending this much money would cause you to miss out on about $400 in extra rewards that you could have gotten from a better card. The companion ticket still costs $99 plus taxes, so you are essentially paying over $500 for the companion ticket, not including the card’s annual fee.  It is certainly possible to get more value than that, but it is probably not worth dealing with a certificate that can potentially expire. $95-99 annual fee.
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 If you are well-served by Delta and fly domestically a few times a year, you should be able to get more value out of this certificate (and card) than the Delta Platinum card's $250 annual fee, but you run some risk of not having a good opportunity to use the companion certificate. You’ll receive a certificate on your account anniversary (you don’t get one the first year that you have the card).
-Getting this card will take up one of your four available Amex credit card slots. If you are collecting signup bonuses, you may want to postpone getting it until you've had an opportunity to collect the signup bonuses on Amex's other cards. {{Link|Amex Limits}}.
+Getting this card will take up one of your five available Amex credit card slots. If you are collecting signup bonuses, you may want to postpone getting it until you've had an opportunity to collect the signup bonuses on Amex's other cards. {{Link|Amex Limits}}.
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 If you fly Hawaiian with someone every year, the annual $100 off certificate will offset the $89 annual fee, but not by very much. You'll also get a discount on economy class award redemptions.
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-'''The Delta Reserve card provides a similar certificate to the Delta Platinum card, except that it can be used for a first-class domestic flight''' (assuming you can find availability)m and not just in coach. However, most of our readers are going to be better off paying the Platinum card’s $250 annual fee, rather than the Reserve card’s $450.
+'''The Delta Reserve card provides a similar certificate to the Delta Platinum card, except that it can be used for a first-class domestic flight''' (assuming you can find availability) and not just in coach. However, most of our readers are going to be better off paying the Platinum card’s $250 annual fee, rather than the Reserve card’s $450.
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-'''With the Virgin Atlantic credit card, you’ll get a certificate for an economy companion award ticket, every year you spend $25,000 on the card'''. If you are likely to make a Virgin Atlantic award reservation, this isn’t a bad deal. However, because of their limited routing options and the high fuel surcharges for flights between the US and London, not that many people are likely to fit into this category. Flyers with Virgin Atlantic Elite status can use the certificates for higher classes of service and obviously fly Virgin Atlantic frequently enough to make this a very good deal.  Spending is based on each anniversary year. $90 annual fee.
+'''With the Virgin Atlantic credit card, you’ll get a certificate  every year you spend $25,000 on the card'''. Unlike any of the other certificate, you can bring along a companion on either a paid or an award reservation. However, for the certificate to be used there needs to saver-level award space left for your companion. Non-elites only get a 50% discount if they are using the certificate for Upper Class tickets. Because of their limited routing options and the high fuel surcharges for flights between the US and London, not that many people are likely to get good use from this certificate. Spending is based on each anniversary year. $90 annual fee.
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