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]
Oct 1, 2015, 9:12 am
#1411
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SFO, HKG
Programs: UA MM 1K, CX G, AS MVP Gold, Hilton Diamond, IC Plat, Marriott TTN
Posts: 154
My latest:
9/24: UA Wi-Fi purchase - not reimbursed yet
9/27: MPX $15 Chili's GC - reimbursed 9/30
9/24: UA Wi-Fi purchase - not reimbursed yet
9/27: MPX $15 Chili's GC - reimbursed 9/30
Oct 1, 2015, 9:45 am
#1413
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 14
One charge on 8/29 via MPX. Chatted with a rep who asked me a ton of questions, but she finally found the charge and said it will be credited in 5 business days.
Oct 2, 2015, 3:11 am
#1414
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Reisterstown, MD, USA
Posts: 117
I chatted about two Sept 10 $50 charges (for one time pass) and he said he would issue a manual credit which I should get in a few days. I have an older MPX Amazon charge I didn't ask about.
Oct 2, 2015, 6:23 am
#1415
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: IAH
Programs: DL DM, Hyatt Ist-iest, Stariott Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 12,781
Oct 2, 2015, 8:14 am
#1416
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 70
MPX $25 purchase on 9/28; reimbursed this morning.
Also, just including for reference, Global Entry charged 9/28; reimbursed this morning.
I have a $25 GR charge pending...will post if this gets reimbursed. I technically chatted to an AMEX rep earlier this week about general questions and they said reimbursements should show up in 14 days from when the charge is posted.
I decided to test out each method with small(er) charges to see which would work. So far, MPX works for me.
Also, just including for reference, Global Entry charged 9/28; reimbursed this morning.
I have a $25 GR charge pending...will post if this gets reimbursed. I technically chatted to an AMEX rep earlier this week about general questions and they said reimbursements should show up in 14 days from when the charge is posted.
I decided to test out each method with small(er) charges to see which would work. So far, MPX works for me.
Oct 2, 2015, 9:21 am
#1417
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 15
Did she ask about what the charge was for? I have an MPX from amazon, it seems that it would be hard to say that's an airline expense.
Oct 2, 2015, 10:49 am
#1419
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: TX
Posts: 59
Sept 28th MPX Amazon.com GC purchase $50
Oct 1st Statement Credit posted
Open the flood gates ladies and gentlemen
Oct 1st Statement Credit posted
Open the flood gates ladies and gentlemen
Oct 2, 2015, 11:48 am
#1421
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,028
"I'm expecting a $50 airline incidental reimbursement for a charge on 9/15, can you check if it has posted yet".
Didn't ask what it was. Told me that it usually takes 2-4 weeks but they'll manually push the credit today.
^
Oct 2, 2015, 2:35 pm
#1422
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 824
$50 MPX credits from 9/1 purchases still have not posted for me
Oct 2, 2015, 2:53 pm
#1423
Join Date: Jan 2012
Programs: DL, WoH
Posts: 1,253
Chatted for $155 of MPX gift cards bought. Credited within 2 days. Gonna use my last $45 today on mpx. Looks like credits are posting automatically now?
Oct 2, 2015, 4:37 pm
#1424
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: NYC
Programs: Marriott Plat, Hilton Gold, UA Silver
Posts: 2,272
Thinking about doing a purchase of $200 on mpx. It seems like its alright to do $200 is this the case or should I do two purchases of $100? Also, if I select united today when would I be able to switch airlines with amex? Jan?
Oct 2, 2015, 5:48 pm
#1425
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 15
Just did a chat right at this moment. I used the line another poster had up top.
"I'm expecting a $50 airline incidental reimbursement for a charge on 9/15, can you check if it has posted yet".
Didn't ask what it was. Told me that it usually takes 2-4 weeks but they'll manually push the credit today.^
"I'm expecting a $50 airline incidental reimbursement for a charge on 9/15, can you check if it has posted yet".
Didn't ask what it was. Told me that it usually takes 2-4 weeks but they'll manually push the credit today.
^
