Sep 17, 2014, 10:44 am
Last edit by: mia
Reminder: you must enroll and select UA as your airline BEFORE making a reimbursable purchase (this includes MPX). Click HERE.
Caution: As of December 2016, it appears that American Express no longer reimburses MPX transactions.
Credits generally appear 3-4 days after making the transaction. No need to worry unless they don't appear after a week.
TravelBank funds can only be used on United and United Express flights. Partner flights are not eligible.
Gift Registry and Gift Cards
The consensus is that United gift registry contributions will be reimbursed and gift card purchases will not. So
There seems to be no downside to contributing in sub-200 dollar chunks since the gift registry creates a single pool of cash. However there are lots of reports of successful fee credits from a single $200 donation. Whether done as on $200 transaction or eight $25 transactions, the result is that one will have $200 in ones TravelBank.
PLEASE NOTE: When you establish a gift registry for the first time, it will take 24 hours before the funds in the registry are available to use toward payment of a flight.
Do I have to join the united.com Club ($25 annual fee) to use my TravelBank?
Apparently not.
Does spending TravelBank credit count towards PQD?
Yes-for revenue flights only
Airline Taxes on Award Tickets- Log into united.com
- Set up a gift registry for yourself
- Use the link in your gift registry web page to send an announcement to your email address. This better, faster, and more reliable than searching for your gift registry, especially if you have a common name. Even someone with an unusual surname like mre5765 has could not find his registry after creating it.
- Log out of united.com
- Follow the Make Contribution in your gift registry email
- Contribute using your Amex platinum card
There seems to be no downside to contributing in sub-200 dollar chunks since the gift registry creates a single pool of cash. However there are lots of reports of successful fee credits from a single $200 donation. Whether done as on $200 transaction or eight $25 transactions, the result is that one will have $200 in ones TravelBank.
PLEASE NOTE: When you establish a gift registry for the first time, it will take 24 hours before the funds in the registry are available to use toward payment of a flight.
Do I have to join the united.com Club ($25 annual fee) to use my TravelBank?
Apparently not.
Does spending TravelBank credit count towards PQD?
Yes-for revenue flights only
Doesn't seem to work anymore; see post 179 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25297196-post179.html and #391
MPX (MileagePlus X)It appears that this is no longer working. See this post: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27589581-post1496.html.
Economy Plus feesThere are recent reports of this working on a per ticket basis. No recent report of an Economy Plus annual subscription being reimbursed.
$200 airline fee reimbursement reports: UA only. [2010 - 2016]
Jul 22, 2016, 4:23 pm
#2251
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Port Jefferson, NY 11777
Programs: UA million miler
Posts: 26
Airline Fee Credit Spouse Card
I might have overlooked this question in the discussion but can both the main cardholder and a secondary card holder on the main account get the $200 fee credit? In other words, if we have two cards on one account can we get $400 total? Thanks.
Jul 22, 2016, 4:31 pm
#2252
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,952
Jul 22, 2016, 5:00 pm
#2253
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 35
Data point: upgraded two economy tickets (paid with another card) to economy plus, at a cost of $213. A few days later, got a credit for $200.
Jul 23, 2016, 9:04 am
#2254
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Bogota, Co.
Posts: 2
Also me: purchased a $200 Amazon GC through the MPX app on July 20, reimbursed on July 22
Jul 24, 2016, 3:38 am
#2255
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 11
Bought four times $50 Amazon GC on 19th, still no credit today.
Jul 24, 2016, 8:23 am
#2256
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 11
BTW, what's your description of payments in account summary on AMEX website? Mine is just MILEAGEPLUS X, nothing else....
Jul 28, 2016, 11:54 am
#2257
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 775
I signed up for gift registry will fund it--BUT I can not see where to buy Amazon GC using
money in gift reg acct
money in gift reg acct
Jul 28, 2016, 12:13 pm
#2258
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,952
Jul 29, 2016, 8:53 am
#2259
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 630
Premier Rewards Gold Card $100 Airline Fee Credit benefit
Hi,
I recently got the Premier Rewards Gold Card and was wondering if I purchase MileagePlus Award Accelerator for an existing reservation I have with UA, does it fall under the criteria of the $100 airline fee credit?
Thanks!
I recently got the Premier Rewards Gold Card and was wondering if I purchase MileagePlus Award Accelerator for an existing reservation I have with UA, does it fall under the criteria of the $100 airline fee credit?
Thanks!
Jul 29, 2016, 12:32 pm
#2260
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: GAI
Programs: TK *G, all statuses that come with Ritz, Amex Plat, Citi Prestige cards
Posts: 364
$200 MPX JCPenny's charge on the 23rd was reimbursed on the 26th. Cashier wasn't happy about waiting for the card to generate and then having to type it in, as usual...
Jul 30, 2016, 10:42 am
#2261
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 891
Trying to Amazon GC from Mileage plus X app with Amex Platinum and my transaction keeps getting declined. Any tips to resolve this?
Aug 2, 2016, 6:55 pm
#2263
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 304
Same here, used my 2016 credit 2nd quarter this year but the offer is in my account again. Can I do it again? Searched the past 10 pages and only found your post
Aug 2, 2016, 7:10 pm
#2264
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, Park City, UT
Programs: AA EXP, Delta Plat, Marriott Plat,Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Plat
Posts: 901
They were very clueless on this I don't know why they can't answer the simple question, "how much airline credit remains on the card?" Seems very difficult and get someone competent if they seem not too smart. Oh well, it's charges I'll use anyway, just wish the mistake was honored.
Aug 2, 2016, 7:25 pm
#2265
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 304
So you did get the credit for the 2nd purchase?