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Jan 20, 2019 | 4:21 pm

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Originally Posted by SirWilliam

....dumped the Amex Platinum because I don't think I can use the benefits.... I never was able to use the $200 airline credit.

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Originally Posted by sdsearch

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If you can take one flight every year or two on American, then you can use the Amex airline credit for AA e-gift cards reliably: AA allows up to 8 gift cards per flights purchase. ...

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Originally Posted by SirWilliam

The AA gift cards are interesting. I don't normally fly American but it counts for that $200 airline fee credit?

Officially, gift cards are not eligible for reimbursement, but in practice they work for AA, DL, WN and other strategies work for AS. In fact, these identical strategies work for the $250 Aspire credit -and- the $200 Platinum credit that you never used -and- the $100 credit available with the Gold card that you currently hold.

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