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)
Apr 2, 2019, 6:02 am
#1786
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Programs: SPG Plat, Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 162
Anyone know if choosing an exit row seat/main cabin extra and paying the $36 for seat selection is reimburseable?
Apr 2, 2019, 8:08 am
#1788
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Programs: SPG Plat, Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 162
thanks... that's enough for me to risk it for the small fee
Apr 2, 2019, 8:22 am
#1789
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 25
Hi there,
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
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
Apr 4, 2019, 1:36 pm
#1791
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 11
Just realized they don’t credit AA GCs after a week with no credit. I’ve been doing this for years that I stopped checking if it still works until it didn’t. After reading suggestions, i was just able to change my airline from AA to DL via Live Chat online with no issues. Just letting everyone know!
Apr 5, 2019, 5:25 am
#1792
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Tampa, FL
Programs: AAMM & PLT; UA Gold, DL Silver, Marriott LT Titanium Elite, Hilton Diamond, Hertz #1 Gold Club
Posts: 1,591
I booked a basic economy ticket and now want to change it to main cabin and wanted to know if the fee will be reimbursed. Been out of the travel game a while and all these changes is making my head spin. A response noted in post 270 seem to indicate it will be reimbursed, but again the new terms have me all confused.
Apr 6, 2019, 2:34 am
#1793
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2014
Programs: Top Tier with all 3 alliances
Posts: 11,669
500-mile upgrades do work
Apr 6, 2019, 8:50 am
#1794
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Truth or Consequences, NM
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium, Hertz President's Circle, UA Silver, Mobile Passport Unobtanium
Posts: 6,194
I booked a basic economy ticket and now want to change it to main cabin and wanted to know if the fee will be reimbursed. Been out of the travel game a while and all these changes is making my head spin. A response noted in post 270 seem to indicate it will be reimbursed, but again the new terms have me all confused.
That only seems to work if the seat is in the same cabin as the seat that was originally purchased; paying to move to J, for example, is considered an upgrade and is thus ineligible.
Apr 9, 2019, 6:48 am
#1795
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 32
Just realized they don’t credit AA GCs after a week with no credit. I’ve been doing this for years that I stopped checking if it still works until it didn’t. After reading suggestions, i was just able to change my airline from AA to DL via Live Chat online with no issues. Just letting everyone know!
Apr 10, 2019, 2:05 am
#1796
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 2
Mar 27, 2019 booked flight with AA, used $100 gc and charged $18.30 balance to the card. posted on account (code description is Travel-Airline)
Mar 29, 2019 Amex airline fee reimbursement posted -$18.30
Mar 30, 2019 booked another flight with AA, used $100 gc and charged $60.30 balance to the card. posted on account (code description is Travel-Airline)
As of this post, still no Amex airline fee reimbursement for the mar 30 flight
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mar 29, 2019 Amex airline fee reimbursement posted -$18.30
Mar 30, 2019 booked another flight with AA, used $100 gc and charged $60.30 balance to the card. posted on account (code description is Travel-Airline)
As of this post, still no Amex airline fee reimbursement for the mar 30 flight
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apr 10, 2019, 7:13 pm
#1797
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: stl
Programs: AA LT Plat/8.1mm now with 1350 miles left in my account and proud of it.. SPG LT Titanium.
Posts: 3,082
Mar 27, 2019 booked flight with AA, used $100 gc and charged $18.30 balance to the card. posted on account (code description is Travel-Airline)
Mar 29, 2019 Amex airline fee reimbursement posted -$18.30
Mar 30, 2019 booked another flight with AA, used $100 gc and charged $60.30 balance to the card. posted on account (code description is Travel-Airline)
As of this post, still no Amex airline fee reimbursement for the mar 30 flight
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mar 29, 2019 Amex airline fee reimbursement posted -$18.30
Mar 30, 2019 booked another flight with AA, used $100 gc and charged $60.30 balance to the card. posted on account (code description is Travel-Airline)
As of this post, still no Amex airline fee reimbursement for the mar 30 flight
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apr 14, 2019, 10:21 am
#1800
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: BGI | MIA
Programs: AA Platinum Pro | Hyatt Globalist | HH Diamond | SPG Gold
Posts: 316