The wiki of
"TravelBank"- United.com Club & Gift Registry Q&A - No new/renewals as of 23 Apr 2019 provides some data
Originally Posted by wiki
5 April 2018 -- UA started posting an "expiration date", appears to be at least 18 months after most recent activity (some are longer for unknown reasons)
also states
Some of your UnitedŽTravelBank Cash may expire on a different date than what’s displayed here. Please check your
balance details for a complete history of your UnitedŽTravelBank Cash transactions and the expiration date for each amount.
Expiration had previously been in the T&Cs for some time (2 years of inactivity? but now is 18 months) and had stated an ETC would be issued if the funds did timeout. Unclear if that still applies.
The Gift Registry has been disabled since Fall 2017 (Sept?) (appears
this may be related to a tax issue?)
As of 5 May 2018, it still states
We're sorry, our gift registry page is currently unavailable for maintenance. You can still use the funds from your gift registry to book travel during this time, but you will not be able to receive contributions or update your registry details. We expect the page to be up and running again in early 2018.
Around Sept 2018, wording changed to
We're sorry, our gift registry page is currently unavailable for maintenance. You can still use the funds from your gift registry to book travel during this time, but you will not be able to receive contributions or update your registry details.
In 2013, 2014, 2015, ... the expiration terms for TB were
Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
in
T&Cs
Account has an expiration date of 24 months of inactivity. After that time, the remaining amount will be issued in the form of an electronic travel certificate (ETC). The ETC is valid for one year from the date the certificate is originally issued to the account owner.
no aware of any expiration of travel bank funds
And that applied to Gift Registry deposit into TB. These terms were in the TB T&Cs
By 2018 Gift registry had disappeared and the TB had 5 year expiration or shorter for specific items, such $5 booking rebates which
become 18 months and no ETC.
Best I can tell, there has never been a period of time without some expiration period in the TB T&Cs (since at least 2013)