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)
Dec 10, 2018, 9:25 pm
#1051
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Truth or Consequences, NM
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Well, it's at the top of the page. This page. You would click on "Click here to display Full Wiki".
Dec 11, 2018, 4:43 am
#1052
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Click HERE to go directly to the Wikipost for this thread. (You will still have to use the "Click here to display Full Wiki" feature to read the entire page.)
Dec 11, 2018, 8:59 am
#1053
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 674
Thanks!
Whats up with the 72 hour hold? Annoying...
Anyway, bought $80, will report back in a couple of weeks.
Dec 11, 2018, 11:45 am
#1054
Join Date: Apr 2016
Posts: 706
No 5x points on my purchase, but we'll let that slide
Cheers.
Dec 11, 2018, 12:03 pm
#1055
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Truth or Consequences, NM
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium, Hertz President's Circle, UA Silver, Mobile Passport Unobtanium
Posts: 6,192
The 5x points will be credited in a few days. For whatever reason, AMEX has a built-in delay on bonus category points posting; same thing happens with the 4x points on the Gold card for those bonus categories.
Dec 11, 2018, 12:15 pm
#1056
Join Date: Jul 2010
Programs: SPG Gold, Sixt Gold
Posts: 257
Still nothing for 11/27 purchase.
Dec 11, 2018, 12:57 pm
#1057
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Truth or Consequences, NM
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium, Hertz President's Circle, UA Silver, Mobile Passport Unobtanium
Posts: 6,192
Dec 11, 2018, 3:35 pm
#1059
Dec 11, 2018, 3:42 pm
#1060
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American Express's IT system appears to use batch processes. Most likely something went wrong with the batch that was run to look for eligible transactions processed on the 27th. This does NOT mean the expenses will not be reimbursed, only that those transactions will not be picked up until they run a different type of process that looks at a wider range of dates. This appears to be done less frequently.
This near to the end of the year you probably do not want to wait the full four weeks, but I would wait at least another week.
This near to the end of the year you probably do not want to wait the full four weeks, but I would wait at least another week.
Dec 11, 2018, 7:57 pm
#1061
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: NYC
Programs: Marriott Plat, Hilton Gold, UA Silver
Posts: 2,272
When using Amex airline credit can I go ahead and buy three AA giftcards back to back in the amounts of $100 x2 and $50 in the same day? Or is it better to buy one GC let it clear then buy the next one. Just trying to get these done before end of 2018.
Dec 12, 2018, 7:08 am
#1062
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Dec 12, 2018, 2:40 pm
#1063
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 10
Bought two $100 eGiftcards on AA.com (desktop) on December 6th, reimbursed on December 9th
Dec 12, 2018, 2:51 pm
#1064
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Dec 12, 2018, 6:11 pm
#1065
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 6
Hilton Aspire
Registered 12/7
Purchased $100 egift on 12/8
Posted 12/11
Credit posted 12/11
The purchase posted earlier in the day and the credit posted sometime that night.
I have now put in another purchase for $100 on 12/11 and one for $50 on 12/12 (oddly both are showing as pending from 12/11). I also registered the Platinum yesterday (12/11) and put in a purchase for $200 today (12/12). Hopefully these will all go through.
Registered 12/7
Purchased $100 egift on 12/8
Posted 12/11
Credit posted 12/11
The purchase posted earlier in the day and the credit posted sometime that night.
I have now put in another purchase for $100 on 12/11 and one for $50 on 12/12 (oddly both are showing as pending from 12/11). I also registered the Platinum yesterday (12/11) and put in a purchase for $200 today (12/12). Hopefully these will all go through.