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)
Mar 28, 2019, 9:55 pm
#1771
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: PHX, SEA
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Mar 29, 2019, 7:39 am
#1772
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 16,871
Not so much to sell but maybe just bank GCards for 10 years for a flight somewhere simple, assuming they don't expire.
Mar 29, 2019, 10:59 am
#1773
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: PHX, SEA
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https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...s-dl-only.html
Mar 29, 2019, 11:59 am
#1774
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 16,871
Delta GCs do not expire but you are limited to three per transaction, and the AX reimbursement is only $50 per card. You might want to check out the other thread so I don't continue to derail this one
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...s-dl-only.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...s-dl-only.html
And it's no derailment since I'm sure other AA flyer looking for options are in the same pickle.
Mar 29, 2019, 12:17 pm
#1775
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,664
Has anyone tried mileage reinstatement fees. Have a friend who let miles expire and it would cost $250 to reinstate. Could be a good way to use the credit. Thoughts?
Mar 29, 2019, 1:45 pm
#1776
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Gatwick, UK
Programs: UA *G, BA Silver
Posts: 1,673
I didn't expect it, but I just received a credit for $175 copay on a mileage upgrade (on AA LAX-JFK). Upgrades are supposedly excluded according to the wiki, but maybe co-pays are not? If so, then they are a very good option going forward.
Mar 29, 2019, 2:40 pm
#1777
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,958
Upgrades are excluded by American Express' terms, but their system may not be able to reliably distinguish an upgrade charge from other types of fees. What description appears on the transaction?
Mar 29, 2019, 3:35 pm
#1778
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Location: Gatwick, UK
Programs: UA *G, BA Silver
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Mar 29, 2019, 8:56 pm
#1779
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Florida
Posts: 29,763
Delta GCs do not expire but you are limited to three per transaction, and the AX reimbursement is only $50 per card. You might want to check out the other thread so I don't continue to derail this one
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...s-dl-only.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...s-dl-only.html
Call in to ticket you can use a lot more. Do some reading on the related thread and even this thread, actual DPs have been posted. (and that is how I learned about it.).
Mar 29, 2019, 9:28 pm
#1780
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: ORD (formerly SAN)
Programs: Hilton Diamond; IHG Platinum; Bonvoy Gold; AA Platinum Pro and United Premier Silver (DH = AA EXP)
Posts: 1,929
DP: Tried a small mileage multiplier this month (under $25 each way so under $50 total round trip) and was reimbursed. Not a great value, but better than nothing. Have one card on AA and one on DL.
Mar 30, 2019, 1:35 pm
#1781
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 1
AA partner airlines
Sorry if this is answered already, but I couldn't find it if so. If I buy a ticket from British Air, but the flight is operated by AA, will I get credit for bag fees paid at the airport?
Mar 31, 2019, 2:12 pm
#1782
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: SJC
Programs: AA, AS, Marriott
Posts: 6,063
If AA is the one charging the fee I don't see why you wouldn't be able to claim reimbursement.
Mar 31, 2019, 8:43 pm
#1783
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Boston
Posts: 249
I did a search on this thread and a post on Jun 2018 said BoA Premium Rewards VISA worked for $100 eGift Certificate. Any info if it still works or if the change in merchant coding affected BoA as well as AmEx.
Apr 1, 2019, 11:06 am
#1784
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Location: Berkeley, CA USA
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Posts: 57,083
Right, we just don't know what happened. All are plausible:
1) Mere IT happenstance -- the change of coding for gift cards has nothing to do with Amex, and AA never thought about Amex statement credits with the change.
2) AA had some reason of its own for changing the coding, and it relates to the deal with Amex.
3) AA did this because Amex is pushing AA (and possibly other airlines) to close the gift card loophole we've all enjoyed exploiting.
Of course, 3) would be a bummer for us travel geeks. So far, at least, this seems to be limited to AA.
1) Mere IT happenstance -- the change of coding for gift cards has nothing to do with Amex, and AA never thought about Amex statement credits with the change.
2) AA had some reason of its own for changing the coding, and it relates to the deal with Amex.
3) AA did this because Amex is pushing AA (and possibly other airlines) to close the gift card loophole we've all enjoyed exploiting.
Of course, 3) would be a bummer for us travel geeks. So far, at least, this seems to be limited to AA.
Apr 1, 2019, 1:42 pm
#1785
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 398
DP: purchased a $50 AA gift card on Feb 8 that coded as gift card and didn't trigger reimbursement. Asked about it over chat, the agent didn't ask any questions but told me that he had initiated a reimbursement and I would see the credit in 5 business days (we'll see if that actually substantiates). I didn't have to claim it was some other fee, just asked about 'an AA charge from Feb 8 that I expected an airline reimbursement from', or something along those lines.
Good luck to others who try this!
Good luck to others who try this!
It's been more than five business days since your post. Could you please let us know if the credit for your gift card purchase on February 8 posts or not? If it has or does, that will be the only report of credit posting for GCs purchased after February 6, of any denomination, I believe.
Thanks very much,
saunders111