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]
May 28, 2014, 1:07 pm
#901
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: NJ
Programs: United Silver, Hyatt, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Amex Plat, Global Entry
Posts: 751
Can anyone confirm?
Jun 9, 2014, 11:39 pm
#903
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 636
Charged 2x$50 and 1x$100 gift registry. All of them were credited within a few days.
Jun 13, 2014, 4:37 pm
#904
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 13
"we can issue the credit only after the 14 days of the transaction made
I request you to please contact us after 12 days and we will issue the credit
I notated your account regarding this"
Jun 15, 2014, 7:04 am
#905
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 13
Thank you for the info. I just chatted online regarding a $200 reward cancellation fee charged two days ago, the CSR said:
"we can issue the credit only after the 14 days of the transaction made
I request you to please contact us after 12 days and we will issue the credit
I notated your account regarding this"
"we can issue the credit only after the 14 days of the transaction made
I request you to please contact us after 12 days and we will issue the credit
I notated your account regarding this"
Jun 17, 2014, 1:45 pm
#906
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 6
Trasaction detail for UA GR
Just purchase the gift registry on united.com and AMEX showed it as Continental Airline?? Anyone has seen this? Thanks.
Tuesday, June 17 CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 200 dollars and.00 Cents
Doing Business As
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES
Merchant Address
600 JEFFERSON ST, STE 1900, HOUSTON, TX 77002-7324 UNITED STATES
Category
Travel - Airline
Sometimes businesses like hotels and gas stations place a temporary charge on your Card, so please check the charge amount after the transaction posts.
Tuesday, June 17 CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 200 dollars and.00 Cents
Doing Business As
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES
Merchant Address
600 JEFFERSON ST, STE 1900, HOUSTON, TX 77002-7324 UNITED STATES
Category
Travel - Airline
Sometimes businesses like hotels and gas stations place a temporary charge on your Card, so please check the charge amount after the transaction posts.
Jun 20, 2014, 12:09 pm
#907
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: LAX
Posts: 383
I'm trying to book an award flight and use the money in the gift registry to pay for the supplementary charges but when I get to the Payment page, I am given 3 options, none of which are gift registry.
How do I use the money?
How do I use the money?
Jun 21, 2014, 6:45 am
#908
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BOS/EAP
Programs: UA 1K, MR LTT, HH Dia, Amex Plat
Posts: 32,161
Just purchase the gift registry on united.com and AMEX showed it as Continental Airline?? Anyone has seen this? Thanks.
Tuesday, June 17 CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 200 dollars and.00 Cents
Doing Business As
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES
Merchant Address
600 JEFFERSON ST, STE 1900, HOUSTON, TX 77002-7324 UNITED STATES
Category
Travel - Airline
Sometimes businesses like hotels and gas stations place a temporary charge on your Card, so please check the charge amount after the transaction posts.
Tuesday, June 17 CONTINENTAL AIRLINES 200 dollars and.00 Cents
Doing Business As
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES
Merchant Address
600 JEFFERSON ST, STE 1900, HOUSTON, TX 77002-7324 UNITED STATES
Category
Travel - Airline
Sometimes businesses like hotels and gas stations place a temporary charge on your Card, so please check the charge amount after the transaction posts.
Jun 21, 2014, 6:46 am
#909
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BOS/EAP
Programs: UA 1K, MR LTT, HH Dia, Amex Plat
Posts: 32,161
type in the certificate number where 'gift cert' is listed.
Jun 21, 2014, 7:11 am
#910
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: LAX
Posts: 383
Have you done it before? I can't find an option to enter in an ecert number. In fact I just called UA and they said I can't use funds in the gift registry for award redemptions
Jul 3, 2014, 11:10 am
#911
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Boston
Programs: AA, UA, DL
Posts: 4
I purchased a $50 UA gift registry on Sat (June 28) and Amex credited my account on Weds (July 3). I will now endeavor to purchase two additional GR's to bring the total to $200.
Jul 3, 2014, 3:37 pm
#912
Join Date: May 2011
Programs: DL PM, Marriott Plat, Hilton Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 85
Unfortunately, the T&C do state the gift registry is not combinable with award travel. I think that stinks.
Jul 16, 2014, 7:46 am
#913
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: New York
Posts: 1
My experience:
I bought a $100 UA Gift Registry on Sat, July 12 and got the $100 credit on Tuesday, July 15th according to my statement.
Everything still looks good for now!
I bought a $100 UA Gift Registry on Sat, July 12 and got the $100 credit on Tuesday, July 15th according to my statement.
Everything still looks good for now!
Jul 22, 2014, 3:34 pm
#914
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 42
Spent $200 in UA Gift Registry (single purchase) on Friday 7/18, received credit Monday 7/21.
Jul 24, 2014, 8:52 am
#915
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Boston
Programs: AA, UA, DL
Posts: 4
I subsequently purchased, about a week apart, two additional $75 gift registry contributions, and each of these were also credited by Amex. Thus, this is a useful way to obtain the full $200 Amex plat credit.