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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

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

Airline Taxes on Award Tickets

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 fees

There are recent reports of this working on a per ticket basis. No recent report of an Economy Plus annual subscription being reimbursed.

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Oct 26, 2015, 9:27 pm

#1516

smnlng

Join Date: Oct 2015

Posts: 1

Bought $50 via MPX, posted 10/23. Nothing yet!

Oct 27, 2015, 2:07 am

#1517

uclacolumbiaunc

Join Date: Apr 2014

Posts: 1,774

So, is MPX reliable in terms of getting $100/$200 airline fee reimbursed? it seems like there have been a lot of cases where the fees were not reimbursed.

Oct 27, 2015, 6:57 am

#1518

I can see for miles

Join Date: Dec 2008

Posts: 377

Quote:

Originally Posted by uclacolumbiaunc

So, is MPX reliable in terms of getting $100/$200 airline fee reimbursed? it seems like there have been a lot of cases where the fees were not reimbursed.

Worked for me. Bought a $200 Amazon GC through MPX on Saturday, Oct. 17 (within an hour of selecting United as my airline for the incidental fee reimbursements), $200 reimbursed five days later.

What I wonder is how long this will last: Is MPX likely to be like the airline-GC loophole that has worked for years?

Oct 27, 2015, 9:10 am

#1519

awval999

Join Date: Dec 2012

Posts: 76

Seems to be taking 5 business days now.

Lots of whining in this thread from 1 post members.

I'm sure the MPX loophole will come to an end eventually.

Oct 27, 2015, 11:17 am

#1520

ccJunior

Join Date: Oct 2015

Posts: 2

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccJunior

anyone got refund on/after Oct 20? I applied on 18th and registered UA for the airline(emailed confirmed). Got card and spent $100 on Oct 20 with MPX but nothing so far. By the way I have spent more than $2000 so far--booked a vacation with it.

Refunded today!! My first reimbursement!

Spent on 20th , refunded on 27th. ~~~

Oct 29, 2015, 11:49 am

#1521

Geeum

Join Date: Dec 2014

Location: San Francisco

Posts: 3

Purchased a $200 amazon gift card on 10/27, moved from pending to posted on 10/28. Will report if I get the reimbursement.

OCT 27
MPX*AMAZON.COM 1-800-421-4655 TX
$200.00

Oct 29, 2015, 4:44 pm

#1522

dordal

Join Date: Dec 2003

Location: Oakland CA

Programs: DL Gold, AS MVPG, Globalist

Posts: 1,008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iheartshopping

My understanding is that straight up buying United gift cards does not work for reimbursement, but united gift registry does.

Buying a straight up gift card actually does work; I've been reimbursed for those. I like the gift registry better, because you can only use one gift card per reservation, which can make them tough to use if you have a bunch of $50 ones. Also you have to keep track of the damn things, which can be annoying.

Oct 31, 2015, 2:38 pm

#1523

jasmians

Join Date: Jan 2013

Posts: 67

Quote:

Originally Posted by rdmustang1

Yes, you can buy anything. I bought a $200 Amazon gift card and got reimbursed. Many people like to buy in increments of $25 because they can claim the $25 was a baggage fee if they have to request reimbursement.

I got reimbursed for all MPX gift cards. First one took couple days, 2nd one took about a week.

Thanks for all your help.

Nov 2, 2015, 8:56 am

#1524

slivrflyr

Join Date: Nov 2014

Location: USA

Posts: 1,084

bought $85 Staples gift card via MXP app and got the credit today. Please note that only today, from what i can see, it says on the original transaction that it's United. All it had said until now was just airline and the MXP name, but just now it says United.

Posted Oct 26

MILEAGEPLUS X
233 S WACKER DR
STE 430
CHICAGO
IL
60606-6462
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (THE)
Additional Information: 30084630 WWW.UNITED.COM
UNITED AIRLINES
Reference: *************
Category: Travel - Airline

Flight Details
Passenger Name: 'slivrflyr'/MILEAGEPLUS X
Ticket Number: *******
Document Type: SPECIAL SERVICE TICKET

NOV1
AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement
MILEAGEPLUS X
233 S WACKER DR
STE 430
CHICAGO
IL
60606-6462
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (THE)
Reference:*********
Category: Travel - Airline

Enjoy this credit courtesy of your $200 Airline Fee Credit benefit.

************

Nov 2, 2015, 9:10 am

#1525

slivrflyr

Join Date: Nov 2014

Location: USA

Posts: 1,084

How to check how much of $200 remaining?

Is there a place to check on the amex site how much of the $200 credit remaining?

(other than manually adding up the reimbursement transaction history)

I had AA as my preferred airline but haven't used it this year so i called amex and asked them to change me to UA. They said it's ok as i haven't used any AA credits.

However, an authorized user on my card had made charges with AA, which I thought wouldn't be reimbursed anyway.

To my surprise, after my preferred airline was already switched to UA, i received the AA reimbursements, despite not being charged to the primary card.

Do you guys think that i have a full $200 available with UA, or would it know that I 'used' $50 via the AA reimbursement? I don't want to charge more than would be reimbursed, if i don't have to, so i am hoping to be able to check this without calling in, of course

Nov 3, 2015, 11:10 am

#1526

pierrerion

Join Date: Oct 2015

Posts: 15

another data point, faster than expected

MPX*AMAZON.COM Cct27
Reimbursement Nov 02

Nov 3, 2015, 4:54 pm

#1527

denverbay

Join Date: May 2015

Posts: 45

Quote:

Originally Posted by slivrflyr

Is there a place to check on the amex site how much of the $200 credit remaining?

Only option on the website is to add it up manually after filtering for credits, which obviously doesn't answer your question. They can tell you over the phone in just a few seconds, but I understand your hesitation to call in given the situation. Good luck.