Sep 17, 2014, 10:49 am
Last edit by: VegasGambler
Reminder: you must enroll and select AS as your airline BEFORE making a reimbursable purchase. Click HERE to enroll.
As of June 2017 gift certificates are no longer reimbursed. Link to buy gift certicates
According to this thread in the Alaska forum the reimbursement of Alaska Club memberships is no longer a problem. To see how much of your annual credit you've used, log in to AmEx, select the card in question, choose "Membership->Benefits" off the menu bar, scroll down to see the travel credit benefit. (with thanks to Lumpylump76)
Tickets cancelled within 24 hours are refunded back to the card used for the purchase.Tickets for travel dates > 60 days out can be deposited to your wallet when cancelled (this has not been true for some time). Change fees may apply depending on your status. Change fees are waived for MVP Gold and MVP Gold 75k members according to this page: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...ID:MileagePlan (expand "service benefits" towards the bottom of the page). The wallet funds will expire one year after the issue date of the original ticket.
As of June 2017 gift certificates are no longer reimbursed. Link to buy gift certicates
According to this thread in the Alaska forum the reimbursement of Alaska Club memberships is no longer a problem. To see how much of your annual credit you've used, log in to AmEx, select the card in question, choose "Membership->Benefits" off the menu bar, scroll down to see the travel credit benefit. (with thanks to Lumpylump76)
Tickets cancelled within 24 hours are refunded back to the card used for the purchase.
Airline fee $250/$200/$100 reimbursement reports: AS only (2011-2019)
Sep 7, 2018, 5:56 pm
#841
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 12
I did this in Feb with Amex card 1 and I just did it this last week with Amex card 2. I waited until hour 23 to cancel. The card transaction posts and the credit is posted several days later.
Sep 10, 2018, 1:22 pm
#842
Join Date: Apr 2018
Posts: 262
Do you recall what time you made the purchase (please include Eastern, Pacific, etc.)? Did you cancel at 23 hour or after? I am wondering if timing plays a role on when AS submits and/or AMEX system post the transaction.
Sep 15, 2018, 11:42 am
#843
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,958
Sep 15, 2018, 12:25 pm
#844
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: BOS
Posts: 314
Except that it’s not automatic, “incidental travel fees” are not defined anywhere I can find on the amex website, and there are data points about how folks have to fight for it.
Sep 16, 2018, 10:47 am
#845
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,958
It can be automatic, and if the system fails to recognize a club membership (or day pass) it is straightforward to have it reimbursed. There is no fight. When this feature was first introduced, club access was mentioned in the list of qualifying expenses, but through several revisions the language has been edited to focus on exclusions rather than inclusions.
Sep 16, 2018, 1:43 pm
#846
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: SEA, or BOS, or MUC, or other places (probably connecting). "Detroit, Michigan is in the Eastern time zone."
Programs: DL PM/1MM, AS 100K, NEXUS/GE, CLEAR, Bonvoy Platinum, Hilton Gold
Posts: 1,201
Sep 16, 2018, 2:05 pm
#847
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: BOS
Posts: 314
Which club membership would you buy: AA, AS, DL or UA?
It can be automatic, and if the system fails to recognize a club membership (or day pass) it is straightforward to have it reimbursed. There is no fight. When this feature was first introduced, club access was mentioned in the list of qualifying expenses, but through several revisions the language has been edited to focus on exclusions rather than inclusions.
It can be automatic, and if the system fails to recognize a club membership (or day pass) it is straightforward to have it reimbursed. There is no fight. When this feature was first introduced, club access was mentioned in the list of qualifying expenses, but through several revisions the language has been edited to focus on exclusions rather than inclusions.
But they've unsurprisingly made that easier at some point: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/29276956-post657.html
Sounds like a good use of the reimbursement for me next year.
Sep 18, 2018, 7:05 pm
#848
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: PHX
Programs: AS MVP, HH Diamond
Posts: 3,259
Oct 11, 2018, 11:15 pm
#849
Join Date: Jun 2005
Programs: Former UA 1K, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 576
PS How much was the airfare?
Oct 12, 2018, 3:45 pm
#850
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 12
Here are the charges as I've done them, the timestamps are from my emails from AS - I don't know the exact time I booked or canceled the fare.
Amex Plat:
1) Jan 31, 2018, 10:23 PM, $93.30, canceled Feb 1, 2018, 6:00 PM
2) Feb 6, 2018, 11:08 AM, $93.30, canceled Feb 7, 2018, 12:30 PM (this was before AS eliminated the 60 refund thing)
3) Feb 11, 2018, 7:15 PM, $48.30, canceled Feb 12, 2018, 9:26 AM
Amex Gold:
Aug 30, 2018, 9:35 PM - $99.40 flight, canceled Aug 31, 2018, 8:44 AM
Amex Plat:
1) Jan 31, 2018, 10:23 PM, $93.30, canceled Feb 1, 2018, 6:00 PM
2) Feb 6, 2018, 11:08 AM, $93.30, canceled Feb 7, 2018, 12:30 PM (this was before AS eliminated the 60 refund thing)
3) Feb 11, 2018, 7:15 PM, $48.30, canceled Feb 12, 2018, 9:26 AM
Amex Gold:
Aug 30, 2018, 9:35 PM - $99.40 flight, canceled Aug 31, 2018, 8:44 AM
Oct 24, 2018, 4:08 pm
#851
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 44
Does the "book a flight under $100 and cancel for wallet credit" still work? I thought AS got rid of this.
Please help as I want to do this for my upcoming AMEX cards.
Please help as I want to do this for my upcoming AMEX cards.
Oct 24, 2018, 5:38 pm
#852
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SFO/SEA
Programs: Amex Biz Cent, Marriott LTP, Avis PC, Hilton Owners Diamond, AS MVP
Posts: 3,380
Some have suggested on here (read several posts/pages up) that you can cancel at the very end of your free 24 hour cancellation window (like between hour 23 and 24) and it will be late enough for the charge to first post and then get refunded due to cancel. And since the charge posted, the Amex fee credit should then post a few days later. Sounds like if you cancel immediately after booking then the charge never even posts and just vanishes from pending
Oct 31, 2018, 7:17 pm
#853
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 17
I’m MVPG75K and just got the Amex Hilton Aspire with a $250 airline incidental fee reimbursement. Any current experience with doing sub $100 AS airfare charges and getting reimbursed on this card?
Oct 31, 2018, 8:52 pm
#854
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Upcountry Maui, HI
Posts: 13,311
Yes, in this thread.
Since you are MVPG75K you can buy a sub $100 ticket and cancel it after 24 hours with no fee, and chose to have the funds deposited to your wallet for future use. Or if you read the last page or two, there seems to be some magical mark at 23 hours or so that might work as well but bypass the wallet, and still result in reimbursable charge on the Amex, which is later credited back. (I haven't tried the latter method.)
-David
Nov 1, 2018, 6:21 am
#855
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 17
Yes, in this thread.
Since you are MVPG75K you can buy a sub $100 ticket and cancel it after 24 hours with no fee, and chose to have the funds deposited to your wallet for future use. Or if you read the last page or two, there seems to be some magical mark at 23 hours or so that might work as well but bypass the wallet, and still result in reimbursable charge on the Amex, which is later credited back. (I haven't tried the latter method.)
-David
Since you are MVPG75K you can buy a sub $100 ticket and cancel it after 24 hours with no fee, and chose to have the funds deposited to your wallet for future use. Or if you read the last page or two, there seems to be some magical mark at 23 hours or so that might work as well but bypass the wallet, and still result in reimbursable charge on the Amex, which is later credited back. (I haven't tried the latter method.)
-David
While it would be great to have an extra $250 in my travel wallet, if it doesn’t work, being MVPG75K, I don’t have any AS incidental chages (free checked bags, no change fees, etc.) so I’d be wasting my benefit. Before knowing about this AS option, I used a tip from TPG to buy a $100 gift card from Southwest for my Amex Gold, and it got the credit in a couple days. Don’t really want or need any more WN gift cards though.
Anyone do this recently with an Amex Hilton Aspire?