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)
Jan 15, 2019, 9:46 am
#1411
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 13
Gold card
Purchased $100GC on 1/9/2019
Received credit on 1/11/2019
Purchased $100GC on 1/9/2019
Received credit on 1/11/2019
Jan 15, 2019, 2:38 pm
#1412
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: DFW
Posts: 9
I purchased max $100 AA GCs on 1/4 for my Amex Plat (2x 100), Gold (1x 100), Aspire (2x100,1x50).
Have not been reimbursed. Meter still shows unused for all 3 cards. It is closing in on 2 weeks. Thoughts? Has this happened to anyone?
My original plan is to not contact Amex - and keep waiting. I will probably wait until later in the year when I need AA gift cards again (August? or later?), then try a $50 gift card purchase. If that $50 goes through, then continue cautiously... regardless of what happens right now, the waiting game starts...
Have not been reimbursed. Meter still shows unused for all 3 cards. It is closing in on 2 weeks. Thoughts? Has this happened to anyone?
My original plan is to not contact Amex - and keep waiting. I will probably wait until later in the year when I need AA gift cards again (August? or later?), then try a $50 gift card purchase. If that $50 goes through, then continue cautiously... regardless of what happens right now, the waiting game starts...
Jan 15, 2019, 2:39 pm
#1413
Join Date: Jan 2019
Programs: AA, DL, UA, SWA
Posts: 21
I purchased max $100 AA GCs on 1/4 for my Amex Plat (2x 100), Gold (1x 100), Aspire (2x100,1x50).
Have not been reimbursed. Meter still shows unused for all 3 cards. It is closing in on 2 weeks. Thoughts?
My original plan is to not contact Amex - and keep waiting. I will probably wait until later in the year when I need AA gift cards again (August? or later?), then try a $50 gift card purchase. If that $50 goes through, then continue cautiously...
Have not been reimbursed. Meter still shows unused for all 3 cards. It is closing in on 2 weeks. Thoughts?
My original plan is to not contact Amex - and keep waiting. I will probably wait until later in the year when I need AA gift cards again (August? or later?), then try a $50 gift card purchase. If that $50 goes through, then continue cautiously...
Jan 15, 2019, 2:41 pm
#1414
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: DFW
Posts: 9
I am still stuck in limbo
Jan 16, 2019, 11:11 am
#1415
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 1
I bought 2 $100 AA gift cards on my amex patinum business card on 1-7-2019 and still have not recieved a credit. In fact my statement closed on 1-11 so I just got a bill for these charges. Is it worth doing a chat with a rep about this? I do have AA listed as my airline on this card.
Jan 16, 2019, 11:17 am
#1416
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: IND
Posts: 301
I bought 2 $100 AA gift cards on my amex patinum business card on 1-7-2019 and still have not recieved a credit. In fact my statement closed on 1-11 so I just got a bill for these charges. Is it worth doing a chat with a rep about this? I do have AA listed as my airline on this card.
Jan 16, 2019, 11:27 am
#1417
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,954
If you contact American Express a few days after making the charges they will almost certainly tell you to wait four weeks, because the automated system sometimes misses transactions on the initial pass, but picks them up later. What's the hurry?
Jan 16, 2019, 12:27 pm
#1419
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 88
You shouldn't have to reselect your airline preference every year if there's not changes. But wait a couple more weeks, it'll probably get picked up.
Jan 16, 2019, 2:16 pm
#1420
Join Date: Nov 2002
Programs: UA Plat; AS MVP Gold; BA Silver; LATAM Black; Hilton Diamond; Marriott Plat; GHA Plat
Posts: 289
2 x $100, 1 x $50 GC. Received credit after 4 days.
2 x $100, 1 x $50 GC. Received credit after 4 days.
Jan 16, 2019, 3:20 pm
#1421
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: FLL
Programs: AA PLT 2.7 MM, DL GLD, UA Prem, BW Diamond, PC PLT, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,285
1 $100 aa giftcard 1/02 credit on 1/06 1 $100 aa GC 1/09 credit on 1/15. AMEX plat biz.
Jan 16, 2019, 3:40 pm
#1422
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Adelphi, MD
Programs: Korean Air Skypass, ANA Skyweb, Amex Premier Rewards, Chase Sapphire Preferred
Posts: 745
Purchased 100$ gc on 1/8. Reimbursed 1/10. Check the coding on the charge. It should code as "Travel - Airline" , then state American Airlines with the address.
Jan 17, 2019, 1:15 am
#1423
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Thousand Oaks, Ca., USA
Programs: AA Lifetime Plat; Bonvoy Titanium Lifetime Elite;Hyatt Globalist; HHonors Diamond; United Silver
Posts: 8,314
One went through no problem (Platinum card) but on Hilton Aspire, one seems hung up in pending noted AA ARC
Jan 17, 2019, 9:56 am
#1425
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 13
IS there a separate thread for AA reimbursement DPs for the Citi cards? I searched and couldn't find anything