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 10, 2010, 9:22 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: NYC
Programs: CO Gold; SPG Gold
Posts: 72
$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: UA only. [2010 - 2016]
I am a pretty loyal Amex Plat user, but I'm thinking of making the switch since Continental will no longer be a part of the point transfer or lounge programs. I was wondering though that if I stayed, could we use the $200 credit towards yearly lounge membership? I read all the material and it keeps saying "daily". Is that on purpose?
Nov 10, 2010, 9:28 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Denver & San Francisco
Programs: Amex Platinum
Posts: 91
http://transformtravel.americanexpre...efits/Details/
So, I'm guessing it could be used, which is a great deal.^
Feb 26, 2011, 3:02 pm
#3
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 60
$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: UA/CO only.
Would it work on United to buy up a segment to E+, or to buy the Award Accelerator offers? i.e. all these "Travel Options" they seem to push?
Mar 1, 2011, 9:14 pm
#4
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, SC
Programs: AA Plat, SPG/Marriot Gold, HHonors Diamond, Hyatt Expl
Posts: 2,363
That's a good question. I guess it depends if it posts as a separate charge from the ticket. I don't know since I've always declined UA's sales pitches (seems like at least 5 per ticket transaction!). If it gets rolled into one ticket charge, the system would have no way to distinguish the upsell portion.
Mar 3, 2011, 11:33 am
#5
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: BOS
Programs: DL SILVER AMEX MRHH Gold, SPG Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 186
Recent United Experiences
I just flew cross country on United and upgraded to first for miles and cash. As the tickets were dirt cheap I used 15K miles each way and there was a 50.00 charge as well. Both $ 50.00 dollar charges were creditted back by AMEX within 24 hours of checkin (when the charges were incurred). Hope this helps with any decisions people may have.
Mar 3, 2011, 9:59 pm
#6
Moderator: Luxury Hotels and FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Palo Alto, California,USA
Posts: 17,844
I upgraded for cash on UA on the day of flight. No $200 credit and the agent I called said that upgrades weren't eligible for reimbursement. I thought they were, and the above poster got it -- so how come I didn't?
Mar 4, 2011, 9:08 am
#7
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Texas
Programs: AA EXP, UA Premier Plat, Alaska MVP Gold, HHonors Diamond, SPG Platinum, Hyatt Platinum
Posts: 2,053
THAT's what you hold them to, not some anecdotal reference on a message board. The terms are binding on BOTH parties, and disclosure is required (even if only by reference) if they want to change the terms.
Mar 4, 2011, 9:15 am
#8
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: somewhere between ORD and Willis Tower
Programs: UA MM, Premier Plat, Costco EM
Posts: 1,392
what about for a RCC membership?
Mar 19, 2011, 2:53 pm
#10
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 26
I bought an award ticket with United and it costed me 25.40. This amount was refunded in 2 days.
Last edited by skn2n8; Mar 19, 2011 at 2:53 pm Reason: na
Apr 9, 2011, 10:36 pm
#11
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: hnl
Programs: ua 1k, spg plt
Posts: 109
UA upgrade co-pay covered!
In the past month I did 2 Z -> NF mileage upgrades on UA that had copays of exactly $100 each.
Both times they were automatically reimbursed!
FYI, I checked-in online for one segment and at the airport counter for another to test both methods.
Both times they were automatically reimbursed!
FYI, I checked-in online for one segment and at the airport counter for another to test both methods.
Apr 13, 2011, 10:42 am
#12
Join Date: Jun 2007
Programs: UA Gold
Posts: 386
$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: UA/CO only.
Anybody tried geting reimbursed for Continental.com gift certificates?
Apr 14, 2011, 8:04 pm
#13
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3
I'm not sure if this was already discussed, but figured I'd post anyway. It looks like the $200 airline fee credit is good for the fee they charge to use points for a specific airline. I recently used 100k points for CO and was charged $75 fee and $5 taxes. The $75 fee was reimbursed a few days later. I chose CO when I enrolled for the yearly credit.
Apr 14, 2011, 8:10 pm
#14
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 186
I'm not sure if this was already discussed, but figured I'd post anyway. It looks like the $200 airline fee credit is good for the fee they charge to use points for a specific airline. I recently used 100k points for CO and was charged $75 fee and $5 taxes. The $75 fee was reimbursed a few days later. I chose CO when I enrolled for the yearly credit.
Apr 14, 2011, 8:12 pm
#15
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 179
I bought miles from UA and got credit from Amex. Anyway to get more then $200? 