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 22, 2019, 12:34 pm
#1456
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 83
On both my Morgan Stanley Platinum, and Business Platinum
Jan 15: Purchased 1 x $200 gift card
Jan 19: Credit received
Jan 21: Used both gift cards for flights
Jan 15: Purchased 1 x $200 gift card
Jan 19: Credit received
Jan 21: Used both gift cards for flights
Jan 22, 2019, 3:37 pm
#1457
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 88
I accidentally purchased the gift cards before electing American as my airline of choice. I remembered as soon as I did and changed my election well before the charges actually posted a couple of days later. Anyone have experience with actually getting the credit in a situation like this? Or is it triggered as soon as the charges go pending?
Jan 23, 2019, 11:00 am
#1458
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 21
Data points for a quick-turn Airline Change Request on Amex personal plat:
19jan2019 - airline updated to AA, approx 6pm
19jan2019 - AA.com purchased 2x $100 GC, approx 7pm
21jan2019 - Amex plat reimbursement cleared for the full $200
bon voyage!
edit: noticed that I also received 5x MR pts for direct purchase from airline for total 1k pts for the initial purchase.
19jan2019 - airline updated to AA, approx 6pm
19jan2019 - AA.com purchased 2x $100 GC, approx 7pm
21jan2019 - Amex plat reimbursement cleared for the full $200
bon voyage!
edit: noticed that I also received 5x MR pts for direct purchase from airline for total 1k pts for the initial purchase.
Jan 23, 2019, 4:19 pm
#1460
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,818
Purchased 1x eGC $100 on 1/6, credited 1/9
Purchased 1x eGC $100 on 1/13, credited 1/16
Personal Plat
Purchased 1x eGC $100 on 1/13, credited 1/16
Personal Plat
Jan 23, 2019, 8:28 pm
#1461
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 88
Hilton Aspire, purchased $100, $100, and $50 on 20 Jan, will update once posted.
Jan 24, 2019, 8:24 am
#1462
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 1
Purchased 1x $100 AA eGC on 1/18, credit posted on 1/21
AMEX PRG
AMEX PRG
Jan 25, 2019, 8:22 am
#1463
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 137
Biz Plat
1/21 - bought (1) $200 AA gc
1/25 - $200 reimbursment posted
1/21 - bought (1) $200 AA gc
1/25 - $200 reimbursment posted
Jan 25, 2019, 8:54 am
#1464
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 16,871
Just to be different……
1/21/19 - $ 300 E-Gift Card
1/24/19 - $ 200 "AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement"
Business Plat.
1/21/19 - $ 300 E-Gift Card
1/24/19 - $ 200 "AMEX Airline Fee Reimbursement"
Business Plat.
Jan 25, 2019, 8:35 pm
#1466
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Austin, TX -- AA Life Platinum; QF Life Silver; UA Silver
Posts: 5,462
PLAT 2x$100 AA
purchased Jan 21, reimbursement posted Jan 24
purchased Jan 21, reimbursement posted Jan 24
Jan 26, 2019, 4:46 pm
#1467
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: SFO/LAX/SAN/LAS/DFW/JFK/LGA/EWR/MIA
Posts: 1,073
Jan 26, 2019, 6:33 pm
#1468
Join Date: Apr 2018
Programs: ANA & ROP
Posts: 13
Amex Platinum Personal: Purchase AA gift card $100 on Jan 22, 2019 Credit $100 on Jan 25, 2019
Will buy another $100 today.
Will buy another $100 today.
Jan 26, 2019, 10:12 pm
#1469
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: SFO/YYZ
Programs: AC 25K, AS MVP Gold, BA Bronze, UA Silver, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 2,470
Jan 27, 2019, 8:39 am
#1470
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,958
Virtual and plastic gift cards are available for purchase in any denomination between $50 and $1,500 on aa.com
https://giftcards.aa.com/terms.jsp
https://giftcards.aa.com/terms.jsp