Sep 17, 2014, 10:44 am
Last edit by: mia
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
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- 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
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 feesThere are recent reports of this working on a per ticket basis. No recent report of an Economy Plus annual subscription being reimbursed.
$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: UA only. [2010 - 2016]
Jan 29, 2012, 12:36 am
#106
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 756
is this 200 reimbursement for every year?
Jan 29, 2012, 8:39 am
#107
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, SC
Programs: AA Plat, SPG/Marriot Gold, HHonors Diamond, Hyatt Expl
Posts: 2,363
Jan 29, 2012, 2:24 pm
#108
Join Date: Jan 2005
Programs: AA EXP, Marriot Gold, SW Gold
Posts: 9
Reimbursed today (1/29) for a single $200 GC purchase 4 days ago.
Feb 2, 2012, 10:34 am
#110
Join Date: May 2011
Programs: CX Silver
Posts: 88
Purchased $200 GC on continental and got reimbursed today!
Feb 5, 2012, 9:47 pm
#111
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Illinois.
Programs: Switched from UA 1K to AA so I could earn EQD's on partners. Mid-tier on most major hotel programs.
Posts: 542
Does anybody know if the contintal gift certificates can be used at united.com and/or on united metal? Terms say only at Co.com on flights operated by CO, etc. Obviously this will change at some point, but does anyone know if you can currently use them on United?
Feb 5, 2012, 10:09 pm
#112
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP / UA Lifetime Gold / Marriott Lifetime Plat / SPG Plat / Hyatt Diamond / HH Diamond / Avis CC
Posts: 483
It really shouldn't make any difference. Just book whatever United flights you want on the CO site.
Feb 6, 2012, 2:48 pm
#113
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Illinois.
Programs: Switched from UA 1K to AA so I could earn EQD's on partners. Mid-tier on most major hotel programs.
Posts: 542
I'll still take the free gift certificates, but I guess I may wait until after the site consolidation to use them.
Feb 6, 2012, 2:58 pm
#114
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP / UA Lifetime Gold / Marriott Lifetime Plat / SPG Plat / Hyatt Diamond / HH Diamond / Avis CC
Posts: 483
It can make a very big difference though. . . if you book on the CO site, the UA metal flights will usually book as code shares. Then you will have a much greater hassle in getting upgrades, etc.
I'll still take the free gift certificates, but I guess I may wait until after the site consolidation to use them.
I'll still take the free gift certificates, but I guess I may wait until after the site consolidation to use them.
Feb 6, 2012, 9:21 pm
#115
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Illinois.
Programs: Switched from UA 1K to AA so I could earn EQD's on partners. Mid-tier on most major hotel programs.
Posts: 542
Feb 8, 2012, 10:03 am
#116
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP / UA Lifetime Gold / Marriott Lifetime Plat / SPG Plat / Hyatt Diamond / HH Diamond / Avis CC
Posts: 483
Purchased 2 $200 CO gift certificates Monday (1 personal and one business) both reimbursed today.
Feb 10, 2012, 11:58 am
#117
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 2
Does purchase of EQM miles get reimbursed?
I missed out on getting 1K last year, and was 1900 miles short of Premier Executive (now Gold?). United will sell me the needed miles to get to Gold for $500. I expect to do much more traveling this year, including internationally, so I'm tempted. I'll be really tempted if AMEX will reimburse $200 of the expense.
Does anybody know if they will do so?
Does anybody know if they will do so?
Feb 10, 2012, 3:07 pm
#118
Join Date: Nov 2007
Programs: UA Plat, SPG Gold
Posts: 89
I missed out on getting 1K last year, and was 1900 miles short of Premier Executive (now Gold?). United will sell me the needed miles to get to Gold for $500. I expect to do much more traveling this year, including internationally, so I'm tempted. I'll be really tempted if AMEX will reimburse $200 of the expense.
Does anybody know if they will do so?
Does anybody know if they will do so?
Feb 17, 2012, 10:29 am
#119
Join Date: Jul 2004
Programs: CO Gold; SPG Gold***; AvisFirst;
Posts: 3,970
I missed out on getting 1K last year, and was 1900 miles short of Premier Executive (now Gold?). United will sell me the needed miles to get to Gold for $500. I expect to do much more traveling this year, including internationally, so I'm tempted. I'll be really tempted if AMEX will reimburse $200 of the expense.
Does anybody know if they will do so?
Does anybody know if they will do so?
Feb 19, 2012, 5:40 am
#120
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 1
I bought 1 $200 CO GC on 2/15 on my AMEX Plat, no reimbursement as of 2/19. On my Plat statement detail it showed up as a "special service ticket" under document type and listed a ticket no and a date of departure. Those who have recently been reimbursed for a $200 GC how did the charge show up on your Amex plat statement detail?