If you already hold the Citi / AAdvantage Platinum Select and are willing to put spend on it, you're a straight shot from 
American AAdvantage Gold — no flying required. AAdvantage status runs on Loyalty Points here, and the card earns one Loyalty Point per dollar of eligible purchases at the base rate (bonus-category spend doesn't count extra). Gold sits at 40,000 Loyalty Points, so $40,000 in spend on the card gets you there, with no cap on how much you can earn this way.
That's the only route this card opens up to American AAdvantage — there's no separate free or discounted path layered on top of it. It's a pure card-spend play: put the money through the card, hit 40,000 points, and Gold posts without a single AAdvantage flight or activity requirement.
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Citi / AAdvantage Platinum Select → American AAdvantage Gold (confer, community-verified) 🇺🇸 — Pure card-spend path, zero flying required (AAdvantage status is Loyalty Point-only — no flight minimum): 1 Loyalty Point per $1 of eligible purchases (bonus-category miles excluded, base 1x only), uncapped, confirmed verbatim on citi.com. Gold = 40,000 LP ($40,000 spend). AA-side threshold rests on unanimous community trackers only — aa.com blocked every fetch attempt across 4 tries, so the 40,000-LP figure itself isn't independently confirmed on a primary AA page.
What Citi / AAdvantage Platinum Select unlocks
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