GUIDE to Trip Credit, Flight Credit, Travel Voucher, Gift Card, Refund
Gary Leff of View From the Wing has an article regarding the different forms of “currency” from American Airlines, and this helpful chart summarizing the four types, restrictions, validity etc. (Flights cancelled by the airline, or with origin or destination changed more than four hours, or with some other conditions that allow the passenger to cancel because of a fault of AA are still refunded to the passenger’s original Form Of Payment (FOP).
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PLEASE DISCUSS EACH TOPIC IN ITS DEDICATED THREAD
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AA Ticket Refund and Related (master thread)
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Requesting refund for a canceled flight
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Goodbye eVouchers Hello Trip Credits (5 Aug 2020)
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AA introduces Flight Credit Wallet (Aug 2020)
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Transportation e- and paper Voucher / vouchers / "MCO" FAQ and master thread
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AA Gift Card / Cards discussion, issues, questions (master thread)
A Simple Guide To American Airlines Trip Credits, Flight Credits, Vouchers And Gift Cards, by Gary Leff, on October 4, 2020
American Airlines recently introduced ‘trip credits’ which are electronic and have different rules from the ‘flight credits’ they’re replacing. Both forms of payment you can use towards a new ticket, but the rules are different. And they work differently than a payment voucher – and a gift card.
Fortunately American Airlines has created a comparison chart for their own employees to use. This was published internally for employees on September 26.
If you cancelled several tickets because of the pandemic, your received flight credits. Unfortunately you cannot combine more than one flight credit towards the purchase of a new ticket. The good news is that those can be used for travel through the end of 2021.
The good news is if you have a travel voucher or a trip credit, those can be combined – and you can book travel for anyone you wish using them. For instance if you exchanged a ticket for a less expensive ticket, and were given a trip credit for the difference that isn’t restricted to being used for travel by the original passenger.
A hat tip to Gary Leff for publishing this helpful chart.
Last edited by JDiver; Oct 4, 2020 at 1:33 pm