Sep 17, 2014, 10:44 am
Last edit by: mia
Reminder: you must enroll and select UA as your airline BEFORE making a reimbursable purchase (this includes MPX). Click HERE.
Caution: As of December 2016, it appears that American Express no longer reimburses MPX transactions.
Credits generally appear 3-4 days after making the transaction. No need to worry unless they don't appear after a week.
TravelBank funds can only be used on United and United Express flights. Partner flights are not eligible.
Gift Registry and Gift Cards
The consensus is that United gift registry contributions will be reimbursed and gift card purchases will not. So
There seems to be no downside to contributing in sub-200 dollar chunks since the gift registry creates a single pool of cash. However there are lots of reports of successful fee credits from a single $200 donation. Whether done as on $200 transaction or eight $25 transactions, the result is that one will have $200 in ones TravelBank.
PLEASE NOTE: When you establish a gift registry for the first time, it will take 24 hours before the funds in the registry are available to use toward payment of a flight.
Do I have to join the united.com Club ($25 annual fee) to use my TravelBank?
Apparently not.
Does spending TravelBank credit count towards PQD?
Yes-for revenue flights only
Airline Taxes on Award Tickets- Log into united.com
- Set up a gift registry for yourself
- Use the link in your gift registry web page to send an announcement to your email address. This better, faster, and more reliable than searching for your gift registry, especially if you have a common name. Even someone with an unusual surname like mre5765 has could not find his registry after creating it.
- Log out of united.com
- Follow the Make Contribution in your gift registry email
- Contribute using your Amex platinum card
There seems to be no downside to contributing in sub-200 dollar chunks since the gift registry creates a single pool of cash. However there are lots of reports of successful fee credits from a single $200 donation. Whether done as on $200 transaction or eight $25 transactions, the result is that one will have $200 in ones TravelBank.
PLEASE NOTE: When you establish a gift registry for the first time, it will take 24 hours before the funds in the registry are available to use toward payment of a flight.
Do I have to join the united.com Club ($25 annual fee) to use my TravelBank?
Apparently not.
Does spending TravelBank credit count towards PQD?
Yes-for revenue flights only
Doesn't seem to work anymore; see post 179 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25297196-post179.html and #391
MPX (MileagePlus X)It appears that this is no longer working. See this post: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27589581-post1496.html.
Economy Plus feesThere are recent reports of this working on a per ticket basis. No recent report of an Economy Plus annual subscription being reimbursed.
$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: UA only. [2010 - 2016]
Nov 26, 2012, 10:34 pm
#271
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: SFO
Posts: 210
Bough 4x50 (didn't realise UA only lets you apply one at a time), reimbursed about 2 weeks later.
Nov 27, 2012, 9:44 am
#272
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: BOS
Programs: UA 1K; AA Plat; B6 Mosaic; SPG Plat
Posts: 208
Bought 1 $50 on Nov. 19 to test the waters; reimbursed on Nov. 26.
Nov 28, 2012, 9:36 am
#273
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NYC/CEB
Posts: 391
2 100 egc's a couple of weeks apart this month. Got reimbursed about 10 days later for each.
Nov 28, 2012, 11:24 am
#274
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: United, SPG
Posts: 294
Data Point
Bought 1 x $200 United Gift Certificate from United.com on 11/19/12 using my AMEX Platinum.
Charged to my Credit Card with the following information:
11/19/2012 Mon UNITED AIRLINES HOUSTON TX 200.00
UNITED AIRLINES
From: N/A N/A N/A N/A
To: N/A N/A N/A N/A
Carrier: UA YY YY YY
Class: 00 00 00 00
Ticket Number: 01623470*****
Date of Departure: 11/25
Passenger Name: RECIPIENT/EGIFTA
Document Type: SPECIAL SERVICE TICKET
Doing Business As: UNITED ELEC TICKETNG
Merchant Address:
600 JEFFERSON ST
HOUSTON
TX
77002-7363
UNITED STATES
Reference Number: 320123240252******
Category: Travel - Airline
On 11/26/12, I got a $200 Fee Reimbursement. Looked like this:
11/26/2012 Mon AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement -200.00
Doing Business As: UNITED ELEC TICKETNG
Merchant Address:
600 JEFFERSON ST
HOUSTON
TX
77002-7363
UNITED STATES
Reference Number: 32012331034********
Category: Travel - Airline
Charged to my Credit Card with the following information:
11/19/2012 Mon UNITED AIRLINES HOUSTON TX 200.00
UNITED AIRLINES
From: N/A N/A N/A N/A
To: N/A N/A N/A N/A
Carrier: UA YY YY YY
Class: 00 00 00 00
Ticket Number: 01623470*****
Date of Departure: 11/25
Passenger Name: RECIPIENT/EGIFTA
Document Type: SPECIAL SERVICE TICKET
Doing Business As: UNITED ELEC TICKETNG
Merchant Address:
600 JEFFERSON ST
HOUSTON
TX
77002-7363
UNITED STATES
Reference Number: 320123240252******
Category: Travel - Airline
On 11/26/12, I got a $200 Fee Reimbursement. Looked like this:
11/26/2012 Mon AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement -200.00
Doing Business As: UNITED ELEC TICKETNG
Merchant Address:
600 JEFFERSON ST
HOUSTON
TX
77002-7363
UNITED STATES
Reference Number: 32012331034********
Category: Travel - Airline
Nov 28, 2012, 9:55 pm
#275
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 25
Another data point. Purchased 1 $200 gc on 11/20. Reimbursement on 11/26
Nov 29, 2012, 12:28 pm
#276
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: SFO
Programs: UA S
Posts: 1,335
posted 11/21, reimbursed 11/28
Nov 30, 2012, 8:06 am
#277
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: EWR PHL JFK
Programs: AA PLT, HH Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 200
AA doesn't sell gc's to NJ residents. Does UA ?
Nov 30, 2012, 9:04 am
#278
Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: USA
Programs: All major programs
Posts: 1,403
Nov 30, 2012, 10:06 am
#279
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: EWR PHL JFK
Programs: AA PLT, HH Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 200
Dec 2, 2012, 8:38 am
#280
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 111
purchased $75 X 2 and $50 X1 recently few weeks apart, got automatically reimibursed for all within 4- 14 days....
next year (2013) will try for $200 X 1, any failures for such recently?
next year (2013) will try for $200 X 1, any failures for such recently?
Dec 2, 2012, 9:28 am
#281
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 48
bought one $200 gift certificate from United on 11/25 and was reimbursed on the 30th
Dec 3, 2012, 10:54 am
#282
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 32
Bought one $200 gift cert on 11/29, reimbursed on 12/03
Dec 4, 2012, 9:06 am
#283
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Boston, MA
Programs: SPG Platinum
Posts: 64
Purchased 1x$200 on 12/4/2012. Keeping fingers crossed and will update post with result in a few days.
Dec 6, 2012, 8:28 am
#285
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 276
I have looked through this thread and cant find the link you are using for the United GF. Can you please share again. Thank you so much!