Jan 4, 2017, 6:59 am
Last edit by: mia
CAUTION: In February 2019, American Airlines changed the coding of gift card transactions. Although there are a few successful data points since, in general, Gift Card purchases are now explicitly identified, and no longer reimbursed by American Express.
Reminder: you must enroll and select your airline BEFORE making a reimbursable purchase. http://www.americanexpress.com/airlinechoice -or- "Call the number on the back of your Card to select a qualifying airline."
Data Points on automatically reimbursed incidentals since 2017:
Admirals Club Memberships: Admirals Club Passes:
Wifi is provided by one of three third-party providers and is thus not eligible for the incidental credit.
* For items not automatically reimbursed but which are not excluded by Amex, you can try and request manual reimbursement from American Express; however, you may need to wait 14-28 days first.
To review AA reimbursement reports from 2011-2016 as well as information on gift cards, click HERE.
Reminder: you must enroll and select your airline BEFORE making a reimbursable purchase. http://www.americanexpress.com/airlinechoice -or- "Call the number on the back of your Card to select a qualifying airline."
Data Points on automatically reimbursed incidentals since 2017:
Admirals Club Memberships: Admirals Club Passes:
- Yes - Hilton-gold, moe8555
- No - ShrinkTheGlobe, canesfan, jasmians, soy
- Yes - Dedicated, Rakibullslam, tsmith12, lotrbfme, mia, GTITAN, cdoobiest
- No - Alex_I, exmike, jb0506, fangtl, nall, javabytes, chitink
- Mixed - PatrickTM, Visconti, iahphx
- No - cubs105, prhocky2607
- No - PatrickTM, mileshound
- Yes - LuizMiranda, fotoflyer88, nk15, joshvworld, Hilton-gold, captaink, JCN, aftortoriello, nall
- No - pubsmeister
- Yes - jvel
- Yes - JDiver
- No - AUSINSIGHT
- No - mrlemm
- Yes - Segments
- Yes - wireless_999, saunders111, mosfet, Budoka, sdsearch
- Mixed - inevitability
Wifi is provided by one of three third-party providers and is thus not eligible for the incidental credit.
* For items not automatically reimbursed but which are not excluded by Amex, you can try and request manual reimbursement from American Express; however, you may need to wait 14-28 days first.
To review AA reimbursement reports from 2011-2016 as well as information on gift cards, click HERE.
Airline fee $250/$200/$100 reimbursement reports: AA only (2017-2019)
Nov 16, 2017, 2:40 pm
#376
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Toronto
Programs: UA 1K, AC MM E75, Marriott LT Ti, IHG Dia Amb, Hyatt Glob
Posts: 15,510
Purchased 2 X $100 gift cards on Nov 11. Refunded 2 X $100 on Nov 15. This is on Ameriprise Amex.
Nov 16, 2017, 6:55 pm
#377
Join Date: Apr 2008
Programs: AA EXPLT, Marriott Titanium (LT PLT), HHonors Gold, AMEX PLT, UA Silver, National EXC
Posts: 1,059
Gold on AA is pretty much not worth much...
Nov 19, 2017, 11:07 pm
#379
Join Date: Apr 2008
Programs: AA EXPLT, Marriott Titanium (LT PLT), HHonors Gold, AMEX PLT, UA Silver, National EXC
Posts: 1,059
Bought $75 posted 3 days later.
Nov 20, 2017, 2:22 am
#382
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Toronto
Programs: UA 1K, AC MM E75, Marriott LT Ti, IHG Dia Amb, Hyatt Glob
Posts: 15,510
In my case, I bought e-gift cards.
Nov 20, 2017, 7:34 am
#383
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: IAH
Programs: UA 1K, AA Plat Pro, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 55
Bought a $75 e-gift card on my Ameriprise Platinum, posted on 11/11 and still awaiting credit
Nov 20, 2017, 8:39 am
#384
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 493
Bought a $100 e-gift card on Amex Plat Business on 11/15; posted $100 credit on 11/19,
Nov 20, 2017, 10:59 am
#385
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Plainfield, IN
Programs: IHG Platinum / HHonors Diamond / Hyatt Globalist / AA EX Platinum
Posts: 200
Data point
Bought $100 E-gift card 11/13 using Amex Premier Rewards card, received statement credit 11/16
Bought $100 E-gift card 11/13 using Amex Premier Rewards card, received statement credit 11/16
Nov 20, 2017, 10:39 pm
#386
Join Date: Apr 2017
Posts: 3
anyone have a data point on whether this will work with purchase of PHYSICAL gift cards?
Nov 21, 2017, 10:27 pm
#387
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Seattle
Programs: SPG Platinum, Delta Silver Medallion
Posts: 30
Data point
Bought $50 E-gift card on 11/19 using AMEX Platinum, charge posted this morning (11/21), have not received statement credit BUT the benefit tracker just updated to show that I've used $50 of my benefit, so that might be a good way to quickly know if you'll get the benefit.
Bought $50 E-gift card on 11/19 using AMEX Platinum, charge posted this morning (11/21), have not received statement credit BUT the benefit tracker just updated to show that I've used $50 of my benefit, so that might be a good way to quickly know if you'll get the benefit.
Nov 22, 2017, 8:24 am
#388
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 183
Nov 23, 2017, 8:16 am
#389
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NYC
Programs: BA Gold, HH Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,258
Selected AA as airline and 20 mins later bought 2 * $100 gift cards. Charge posted yesterday and reimbursed 200 today.
Nov 25, 2017, 7:36 am
#390
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 24
What did you tell Amex? I thought gift cards were not supposed to be reimbursed?