Originally Posted by
sethweinstein
If you got the card in August 2016, then your travel credits are based on the calendar year, regardless of when you pay the annual fee. So you got one $300 travel credit in 2016 and another $300 that you presumably already used for 2017. Your next (for 2018) will start after your December 2017 statement posts.
Quite correct.
I wish the vaunted travel bloggers and other online luminaries would hyper-actively promulgate this nuance, before people deliberately put charges on their cards before their December closing date mistakenly thinking they'll be credited.