Just go to southwest.com and click the link at the top of the homepage to buy a gift card. Another data point, purchased a $75 gc on the 11th and got reimbursed today.

Purchased $75 GC on Feb 17, got reimbursed Feb 21 :)

just purchased 1 $100, hopefully it'll go though, if it does i'll do another hundred, my last ones were 2/18/2012 and 2/15/2013.

Went to the site to reselect it and it says i was already selected ?! even tho i know that wasnt right

oh well we'll see

Purchased on 2/24, the second day after enrolling. No credit yet.

Same thing happened to a friend of mine, but when he called in they denied the credit because it showed "gift cards" on the statement. He purchased the GCs from southwest.com

How do the charges appear on everyone's statement?

Just tried to place an order for a $45 gift card, and this is what it looks like in my pending charges:

Saturday, March 30
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES 45 dollars and.00 Cents

Doing Business As SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Merchant Address ATTN SUPVR CR CD BILLINGS, MAIL STA 6AR/PO BOX 36611, DALLAS, TX 75235 UNITED STATES
Category Travel - Airline
Sometimes businesses like hotels and gas stations place a temporary charge on your Card, so please check the charge amount after the transaction posts.

EDIT: Here's what it looks like after posting -

Select to close the transaction details Saturday, March 30
SW AIR DALLAS TX 45 dollars and.00 Cents
Doing Business As SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Merchant Address PO BOX 36611, DALLAS, TX 75235 UNITED STATES
Additional Information 7900089181 (214) 792 - 4223
reference number XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Category Travel - Airline
From To Carrier Class
N/A N/A YY
N/A YY
N/A YY
N/A YY
TICKET NUMBER XXXXXXXXXXXXX
DATE OF DEPARTURE
PASSENGER NAME
DOCUMENT TYPE SPD/AIR FREIGHT
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES (MASTE

Success! Full $200 credit for gift cards ($150+$50)
 

The details, as they appear online at AmEx (I've bolded the key info.). All of this happened automatically. I ordered the gift cards at southwest.com. There was about a week between when I selected SW as the airline for the $200 credits and when I bought the cards.


Transaction Date: 03/30/2013 Sat
Transaction Description: AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement
Amount $: -150.00
Doing Business As: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Merchant Address: PO BOX 36611 DALLAS TX 75235 UNITED STATES
Reference Number: [redacted]
Category: Travel – Airline

Transaction Date: 03/30/2013 Sat
Transaction Description: AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement
Amount $: -50.00
Doing Business As: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Merchant Address: PO BOX 36611 DALLAS TX 75235 UNITED STATES
Reference Number: [redacted]
Category: Travel – Airline

Transaction Date: 03/26/2013 Tue
Transaction Description: SW AIR DALLAS TX
7900088849 (214) 792 - 4223
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES (MASTE
From: To : Carrier : Class :
N/A
N/A YY
N/A YY
N/A YY
N/A YY
Ticket Number : [redacted] Date of Departure :
Passenger Name :
Document Type : SPD/AIR FREIGHT
Amount $: 50.00
Doing Business As: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Merchant Address: PO BOX 36611 DALLAS TX 75235 UNITED STATES
Reference Number: [redacted]
Category: Travel – Airline

Transaction Date: 03/26/2013 Tue
Transaction Description: SW AIR DALLAS TX
7900088849 (214) 792 - 4223
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES (MASTE
From: To : Carrier : Class :
N/A
N/A YY
N/A YY
N/A YY
N/A YY
Ticket Number : [redacted] Date of Departure :
Passenger Name :
Document Type : SPD/AIR FREIGHT
Amount $: 150.00
Doing Business As: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
Merchant Address: PO BOX 36611 DALLAS TX 75235 UNITED STATES
Reference Number: [redacted]
Category: Travel - Airline

Bought 2 Giftcards on SWA, reimbursed automatically, no issues.

# 1: Purchased $50 GC on 3/23 - Amex Reimbursement on 3/26
# 2: Purchased $150 GC on 3/30 - Amex Reimbursement on 4/02

$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: WN/FL only
 

45 dollar gift card posted March 30th and was credited April 2nd.

Just had an odd, yet positive reimbursement outcome.

Bought a $200 GC and immediately used that + Platinum card to buy a SW ticket for $233.90. GC purchase posted as "Document Type : SPD/AIR FREIGHT" followed by a $33.90 charge for the rest of the ticket that was "Document Type : PASSENGER TICKET"

A few days later, the reimbursements posted: $33.90 reimbursement and a $166.10 reimbursement.

So they actually credited me for something that was clearly marked as a ticket purchase, and applied the rest of the credit to the GC purchase.

$40 "jump to front of A" reimbursable?
 

Early this year, Southwest began offering a $40 option to "jump to the front of A" about 45 minutes before departure. (Well, near the front, anyway.) Does anyone know whether this $40 fee is reimbursable with the $200 Platinum fee reimbursement? Normally, the $40 might not be a good value, but it's kind of hard to rack up $200 in Southwest fees each year, so it might be worth it if it can be reimbursed. Could provide a shot at an exit aisle..

I haven't seen anyone try this yet, the $40 buy-up is a relatively new process with WN. You could be the first to try it :)

I personally find that the increased EBCI fee has only made it easier to deplete this credit. Figure I'll get as many EBCIs as I can and cash the rest out via GC if necessary at year's end.

So, I tried it -- spending the $40 to jump from middle of B (which was with Early Bird -- first time I received B with that!) to A7. That scored me an emergency exit row seat (aka, "Southwest First Class"), which was nice on an East Coast to Las Vegas flight. A couple days later, AmEx automatically credited back the $40 to my account. So, it looks like the $40 fee is credited back. That makes the credit much more valuable to me, as the $40 fee will in most cases get you some extra leg room on Southwest.

Data point:

Charged (2) $100 WN gift cards 5.1.13. It registered as just (1) $200 transaction on the statement.

Document type showed as "SPD/AIR FREIGHT"; Category was "Travel - Airline"; it also had a ticket number associated with it.

AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement for $200 on 5.4.13, again shown as "Travel - Airline."

Another data point, bought a $50 SW gift certificate on 5/6 and was credited on 5/9. I then bought a $150 SW GC on 5/10 and was credited on 5/13