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Airline fee $250/$200/$100 reimbursement reports: WN (2011-2019)

Old Sep 17, 2014, 10:45 am
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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.

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Airline fee $250/$200/$100 reimbursement reports: WN (2011-2019)

Old Dec 14, 2018, 11:21 am
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 5
Just got the AMEX Plat Personal. Charged $100 GC from Southwest website on Dec 11 (charged has cleared) but have yet to see the reimbursement
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 11:38 am
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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Originally Posted by ryep
Just got the AMEX Plat Personal. Charged $100 GC from Southwest website on Dec 11 (charged has cleared) but have yet to see the reimbursement
Did you select WN as your airline before purchasing the GC?
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 12:43 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 5
Originally Posted by Troopers
Did you select WN as your airline before purchasing the GC?
Yes I did. I did it about 5 minutes before purchasing. Maybe I should have waited...
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 1:43 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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did you get the email notification?
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 1:44 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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Originally Posted by ryep
Yes I did. I did it about 5 minutes before purchasing. Maybe I should have waited...
did you get the email notification?
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 2:14 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2015
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Originally Posted by Cesard
did you get the email notification?
I did get an email confirmation before I purchased the GC that I had enrolled in the Southwest/Air Trans incidental benefit
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 2:50 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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Originally Posted by ryep
I did get an email confirmation before I purchased the GC that I had enrolled in the Southwest/Air Trans incidental benefit
check if your incidental fee says that it was used, mine cleared, a day later it showed that it was used and the following day I got the credit.
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 7:30 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2015
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Thanks so much. It does say that I have used half the credit so far. Should I wait for it to actually reimburse me before purchasing the other $100?
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Old Dec 14, 2018, 9:24 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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Originally Posted by ryep
Thanks so much. It does say that I have used half the credit so far. Should I wait for it to actually reimburse me before purchasing the other $100?
I would just do it if you see that it took half as long as you do the same should be fine. Let us know if you do and if everything went well.
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Old Dec 15, 2018, 7:53 am
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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Amex Hilton

12/11: purchased $250
12/14: reimbursement posted.
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Old Dec 15, 2018, 8:38 am
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 5
Thanks everyone. Looks like from recent data points I can go for the full $200 in on GC when January rolls around.

Woke up this morning to see the first GC has been credited.
12/11 - $100 GC purchased
12/13 - transaction cleared
12/14 - showed incidental fee was used but no reimbursement issued
12/15 - reimbursement issued
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Old Dec 15, 2018, 9:40 am
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Join Date: Dec 2018
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Schwab Plat Ind. AmEx dp's:

12/10 select WN
12/11 purchase $100 GC
12/13 transaction cleared
12/15 reimbursement posted & indicental fee updated
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Old Dec 15, 2018, 10:38 pm
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Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 81
Schwab Platinum
12/11 Purchased $200 e-gift card
12/14 $200 credit posted
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 8:08 am
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 184
Amex personal platinum
12/13 $200 e-gift purchased

so far no credit, but also still shows full airline free credit available which is a bit concerning

Last edited by ukyank; Dec 17, 2018 at 8:21 am
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Old Dec 17, 2018, 8:51 am
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 4
12/13- Purchased $100 SW e-GC
12/15- Posted

Still not showing credit used or posting, so I'm a little worried. Though the benefits portion of the site was down for a while this weekend, so maybe it has something to do with that? It took a while for my Saks credit to post too. (Purchased 12/12, posted 12/14, credit posted 12/16.)
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