Sep 17, 2014, 10:45 am
Last edit by: Tanic
Reminder: you must enroll and select Southwest as your airline BEFORE making a reimbursable purchase.
Some have suggested the need to wait several hours or even a day before making the purchase, but there are also several DPs that worked without waiting that long.
(BTW, you will often hear people refer to Southwest as WN. WN is the IATA code for Southwest Airlines. SW is the IATA code for Air Namibia.)
Caution: As of late July 2019, reports are that direct gift card purchases are no longer being reimbursed.
To purchase click here: https://www.southwest.com/gift-card/create-card.html Caution: Do NOT login to your Southwest Rapid Rewards account when making the purchase.
What does appear to work is buying flight tickets less than $100, OR using gift cards to get the charged amount down to less than $100.
Always read the last few pages to get up-to-date DPs.
Some have suggested the need to wait several hours or even a day before making the purchase, but there are also several DPs that worked without waiting that long.
(BTW, you will often hear people refer to Southwest as WN. WN is the IATA code for Southwest Airlines. SW is the IATA code for Air Namibia.)
Caution: As of late July 2019, reports are that direct gift card purchases are no longer being reimbursed.
What does appear to work is buying flight tickets less than $100, OR using gift cards to get the charged amount down to less than $100.
Always read the last few pages to get up-to-date DPs.
Airline fee $250/$200/$100 reimbursement reports: WN (2011-2019)
Jul 13, 2019, 9:13 am
#2011
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,061
Quote:
Originally Posted by aopluu
if GC+ partial ticket payment work
Can I buy refundable ticket, wait until AMEX post partial payment part credit, then cancel the ticket.
By doing so, WN will refund entire Ticket total to travel credit for future use within 12 month.
As long as I can book for WN travel within 1 year, it can be solved.
per reading previous post, better to make Partial ticket payment part < $100
---> Are you trying to shift your expense forward by a few months, or build up your WN credit above the $100 threshold?
just think if this way works, better than nothing or wasting that $100 credit
Originally Posted by aopluu
if GC+ partial ticket payment work
Can I buy refundable ticket, wait until AMEX post partial payment part credit, then cancel the ticket.
By doing so, WN will refund entire Ticket total to travel credit for future use within 12 month.
As long as I can book for WN travel within 1 year, it can be solved.
per reading previous post, better to make Partial ticket payment part < $100
---> Are you trying to shift your expense forward by a few months, or build up your WN credit above the $100 threshold?
just think if this way works, better than nothing or wasting that $100 credit
Last edited by danhouston; Jul 13, 2019 at 9:21 am
Jul 13, 2019, 11:07 am
#2012
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 825
if you redeem a $5 gift card for $80 in taxes on an intl award flight and it doesn't work you can cancel it and get the amount minus the gc as a cc refund. Please note this is only for award flights and refundable fares and doesn't work on wga fares past the cancelation window.
Jul 13, 2019, 2:35 pm
#2013
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 35
These Amex credits are beyond stupid now. Will be cancelling all my charge cards when the annual fees come due.
Jul 14, 2019, 7:56 am
#2014
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Pittsburgh
Programs: Whoever Has the Best Bonus
Posts: 5,183
My meter went down to $2 after two $99 fare purchases two days after they posted. I did use a $10 gift card each (not reimbursed).
Have no idea how long this will last but at least set for this year and hope still an option next year. Others can report if amounts higher than $100 work.
Have no idea how long this will last but at least set for this year and hope still an option next year. Others can report if amounts higher than $100 work.
Jul 14, 2019, 10:41 am
#2015
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: America!
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Explorist Caesars Wyndham Diamond, MGM Gold
Posts: 249
delete
Last edited by sowhatwegetdrunk; Jul 14, 2019 at 1:24 pm
Jul 14, 2019, 12:08 pm
#2016
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 825
$5 will be in the form of a future use voucher, good 1 year from original booking date. Also make sure not to add early bird if you plan on potentially canceling as it is non refundable but still reimbursed on a side note
Jul 14, 2019, 12:21 pm
#2017
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,061
taxes &fees will likely get reimbursed esp with split pymt; may I ask which int'l inbound fee has the tax of $111? plz share DP after recvg credit
Last edited by danhouston; Jul 14, 2019 at 12:28 pm
Jul 14, 2019, 1:25 pm
#2018
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: America!
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Explorist Caesars Wyndham Diamond, MGM Gold
Posts: 249
Jul 14, 2019, 3:21 pm
#2020
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 218
So using gift card to to split payment vs using points + fees to book reward flights are coded differently?
Jul 15, 2019, 9:41 am
#2021
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: UA, CO, Delta, AA, BA, Hilton, Starwood, Marriott
Posts: 211
No, you don't need to apply a gift card. I bought two tickets at $89.99 each (in two purchases) and both triggered the credit.
Jul 19, 2019, 1:24 pm
#2023
Join Date: Mar 2018
Programs: UA 1K, AA EXP. Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,134
Just tried the GC + Amex split payment a few days ago as described above and the Amex charge posted as a passenger ticket with the name, itinerary, ticket number, etc. Not sure what the trick was that people used to get it to work, but maybe we can peel this back and figure out how people booked to trigger it.
Maybe, the way I went about it caused the failure, maybe not: Round trip flight was booked by them, while logged into their RR acct, in their name using a GC they bought with a different CC in their name as a partial payment. The remainder of the payment (~$85) was charged to my Plat. Booked on a windows laptop, vs. an iOS device like an iPad.
I probably screwed the pooch on this attempt by the stupid way we booked, but any ideas? Problem was they needed a flight on WN and I didn't, so we tried it this way. I had my wallet out and they didn't so we used my card. They are an AU on my Plat card, so maybe next time let them book it all and pay the remainder on their Au Plat card to try to trigger the credit?
Maybe, the way I went about it caused the failure, maybe not: Round trip flight was booked by them, while logged into their RR acct, in their name using a GC they bought with a different CC in their name as a partial payment. The remainder of the payment (~$85) was charged to my Plat. Booked on a windows laptop, vs. an iOS device like an iPad.
I probably screwed the pooch on this attempt by the stupid way we booked, but any ideas? Problem was they needed a flight on WN and I didn't, so we tried it this way. I had my wallet out and they didn't so we used my card. They are an AU on my Plat card, so maybe next time let them book it all and pay the remainder on their Au Plat card to try to trigger the credit?
Jul 19, 2019, 9:10 pm
#2024
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,061
Just tried the GC + Amex split payment a few days ago as described above and the Amex charge posted as a passenger ticket with the name, itinerary, ticket number, etc. Not sure what the trick was that people used to get it to work, but maybe we can peel this back and figure out how people booked to trigger it.
Maybe, the way I went about it caused the failure, maybe not: Round trip flight was booked by them, while logged into their RR acct, in their name using a GC they bought with a different CC in their name as a partial payment. The remainder of the payment (~$85) was charged to my Plat. Booked on a windows laptop, vs. an iOS device like an iPad.
I probably screwed the pooch on this attempt by the stupid way we booked, but any ideas? Problem was they needed a flight on WN and I didn't, so we tried it this way. I had my wallet out and they didn't so we used my card. They are an AU on my Plat card, so maybe next time let them book it all and pay the remainder on their Au Plat card to try to trigger the credit?
Maybe, the way I went about it caused the failure, maybe not: Round trip flight was booked by them, while logged into their RR acct, in their name using a GC they bought with a different CC in their name as a partial payment. The remainder of the payment (~$85) was charged to my Plat. Booked on a windows laptop, vs. an iOS device like an iPad.
I probably screwed the pooch on this attempt by the stupid way we booked, but any ideas? Problem was they needed a flight on WN and I didn't, so we tried it this way. I had my wallet out and they didn't so we used my card. They are an AU on my Plat card, so maybe next time let them book it all and pay the remainder on their Au Plat card to try to trigger the credit?
Jul 20, 2019, 7:08 am
#2025
Join Date: Jul 2004
Programs: CO, UA, AA, WN, DL Gold
Posts: 2,981
Just tried the GC + Amex split payment a few days ago as described above and the Amex charge posted as a passenger ticket with the name, itinerary, ticket number, etc. Not sure what the trick was that people used to get it to work, but maybe we can peel this back and figure out how people booked to trigger it.
Maybe, the way I went about it caused the failure, maybe not: Round trip flight was booked by them, while logged into their RR acct, in their name using a GC they bought with a different CC in their name as a partial payment. The remainder of the payment (~$85) was charged to my Plat. Booked on a windows laptop, vs. an iOS device like an iPad.
I probably screwed the pooch on this attempt by the stupid way we booked, but any ideas? Problem was they needed a flight on WN and I didn't, so we tried it this way. I had my wallet out and they didn't so we used my card. They are an AU on my Plat card, so maybe next time let them book it all and pay the remainder on their Au Plat card to try to trigger the credit?
Maybe, the way I went about it caused the failure, maybe not: Round trip flight was booked by them, while logged into their RR acct, in their name using a GC they bought with a different CC in their name as a partial payment. The remainder of the payment (~$85) was charged to my Plat. Booked on a windows laptop, vs. an iOS device like an iPad.
I probably screwed the pooch on this attempt by the stupid way we booked, but any ideas? Problem was they needed a flight on WN and I didn't, so we tried it this way. I had my wallet out and they didn't so we used my card. They are an AU on my Plat card, so maybe next time let them book it all and pay the remainder on their Au Plat card to try to trigger the credit?