Yeah, I'm getting pretty frustrated with American's rewards program. For my next trip to MBJ, I was able to scrounge up enough miles for a one way coach ticket (MBJ to PHL) and had to pay cash for the rest (RT would've been over 50,000 miles). I had been riding on the US Airways/AA Barclays Mastercard since 2012, but now I'm not sure its worth the annual fee. I'm definitely planning to get a Venture card and will probably sign-up for the AA Citi card, just for the 50,000 bonus miles. I would like to cancel the AA Barclays card before they charge my next annual fee, but need to make sure they don't take away my miles along with it.