So, I did the following and they did not trigger the credit.

1. Bough a ticket for about 700$ and used a 250$ gift card - it has been 2 weeks
2. Bought an award ticket with 260$ in fees - also about 2 weeks
3. Upgraded to C+ on one of the flights, no dice as yet ( has been about 72 hours)

Any other suggestion for what I could do to trigger the credit?

So, if you have $200 in unused airline credits and no plans of flying this year, are you basically SOL at this point? Hate to waste this perk as the loss of these GC purchases was literally was pushed me to get this card.

No, I can't. I don't know my life or work schedule beyond next week, much less where I'll be or where I'll want to go sometime next year. The old GC hack was perfect because I could bank the credit and use it when I needed. So now I'm looking for the workaround to make the credit usable.

Yes, of course I looked at one-ways and round trips, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong markets, or the wrong dates. Plus the DL search page makes me reselect "Refundable" and "My Dates are Flexible" each time, which is a pain and slows the process down significantly. Was hoping to get a useful tip or suggestion on how to speed up the search for fares that fit my needs.

Upgrade to first or C+

Upgrades aren't supposed to be refundable under the AmEx rules, but YMMV.

Asking questions is often a prelude to providing more.

MIA-CHA $315

Avoid Delta hubs. I don't think Flexible Dates is important, because Refundable fares tend to be the same every day. Include Nearby Airports is useful.

They'll apply a manual credit if you wait 14 days after the charge. Refer to it as a seat assignment.

I screwed this up. I had about $100 in credit remaining. I purchased two tickets for $135 each, and used a $100 gift certificate. Delta put two separate charges through, one for $35, one for $135. The $35 got the credit, the $135 didn’t. Next time I’ll make sure that a single ticket gets me the entire credit I need.

I'm not flying anywhere this year.

Gah, I feel like I just wasted $550 on this card because I never would have bought it if I had known this $200 credit would become worthless to me.

Yeah, the $35 went through as an additional charge while the $135 was simply a ticket purchase. Tickets, no matter how cheap, don't qualify for the credit.

Ummm.... so it sounds like if you had been able to buy a gift card, by your logic you still would have "wasted" $350 (i.e. $550 - $200).

Is the airline credit the only reason you obtained an Amex Platinum card? Seriously? :confused:

Regards

Reimbursed?
 

When buying that $75 on your CSR card, did you get reimbursed from the $300 annual travel credit? Please let me know!

Book 2 award tickets for $80.56 each on Nov 30th. Use the Platinum with $142 Airline Fee Credit remaining to pay.
Yesterday, I got the $142 Amex Airline Fee Reimbursement.

I had already used up my $300 travel credit or 2019 so im not sure. The transaction coded as TRAVELthought so that means it should it I had any available.

it coded as travel so it should. I had already used my 300 for the year though