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)
Dec 31, 2019, 6:54 pm
#2716
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 94
Too late I already did it. This actually was for my gf and I only could convince her to try again now.
Dec 31, 2019, 7:32 pm
#2718
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For those with $200 in credit, there are mid-week one-ways from OAK to LAX going for $69 in late January. That's just about perfect ($69 x 3 = $207). I'm going to grab 9 of those tomorrow on our 3 Plat accounts.
Dec 31, 2019, 8:23 pm
#2719
Join Date: Nov 2017
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For those with several $ credit left and want to book a flight with lowest price. the lowest one I can find is SAN to SJC, $49.
Dec 31, 2019, 9:10 pm
#2720
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Dec 31, 2019, 9:31 pm
#2721
Join Date: Dec 2019
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12/29: Bought 4 one way tickets under $100
12/30: Transactions posted
12/31: Under Benefits section, it says "You have used all of your $250 Airline Fee Credit for this year.It will renew again starting Jan 2020"
Waiting for credits to actually post. Which I'm assuming will be the next business day.. Was able to use the remaining credits for 2019 and will get a new set of credits for 2020...
12/30: Transactions posted
12/31: Under Benefits section, it says "You have used all of your $250 Airline Fee Credit for this year.It will renew again starting Jan 2020"
Waiting for credits to actually post. Which I'm assuming will be the next business day.. Was able to use the remaining credits for 2019 and will get a new set of credits for 2020...
Jan 6, 2020, 8:35 am
#2722
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Discussion continues here: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...west-only.html
I am not a WN flyer. I did not copy the Wikipost to the new thread. If the existing Wikipost still contains relevant information please send a PM, and I will copy it. Otherwise, please create a new Wikipost in the 2020 thread.
I am not a WN flyer. I did not copy the Wikipost to the new thread. If the existing Wikipost still contains relevant information please send a PM, and I will copy it. Otherwise, please create a new Wikipost in the 2020 thread.
Last edited by mia; Jan 6, 2020 at 9:30 am