Feb 22, 2016, 3:57 pm
Last edit by: frudd38
Credit appears on the billing statement for the month the fee/charge hit. It is not an instantaneous credit that you'll see in the account online, it only applies at close of statement.
The year your purchase counts against is based on the statement date, not date of purchase. Tickets purchased late in the year, especially in December, will almost certainly count against the benefit in the following calendar year. Do not wait until the end of the calendar year to use your credits!
Summary of reimbursement options by airline
Please edit the wikipost to add your specific knowledge of airlines.
Aer Lingus: Tickets work
Air Asia: Tickets worked booked on airline site.
Air Canada: Tickets (via travel agent) work. Bag fees work
Air France: Award fees work
Alaska Airlines: Tickets work. In-flight food does not. Gift certificates do not.
Allegiant: Tickets work, with effort.
Atlantic Airways: Tickets work.
American Airlines: Gift certificates work. Status challenge payment works. In-flight food works. Tickets Work Baggage Fees at Airport works.
ANA: Award taxes
Avianca: Upgrade fees work.
British Airways: Tickets work.
Cebu Pacific: Tickets and bag fees work.
China Airlines: Tickets work.
Delta: Bag fees work. Tickets work. Gift cards work.
Emirates: Gift shop purchases work.
Etihad: Award taxes/fees work
EVA: Sky Shop
Frontier: Ticketing online works 6/18/17
Hawaiian: Bag fees work.
JetBlue: Bag fees work. Tickets work.
KLM: Tickets work.
Korean Air: Ticket (via travel agent) works.
Lufthansa: Tickets work.
Malaysia Airlines: Tickets Work
Qatar Airways: Tickets work.
Turkish Airlines: Tickets work. Upgrade fees work.
Southwest: Gift certificates work. Award fees work. In-flight meal purchases do not work.
Sun Country: Tickets work.
Thomas Cook Airlines: flight from UK to USA, priced in GBP, worked
United: Gift certificates work. Tickets work.
Virgin Atlantic: taxes+YQ for award ticket worked
Points + Cash booking via TY portal: Yes, after manual request.
The year your purchase counts against is based on the statement date, not date of purchase. Tickets purchased late in the year, especially in December, will almost certainly count against the benefit in the following calendar year. Do not wait until the end of the calendar year to use your credits!
Summary of reimbursement options by airline
Please edit the wikipost to add your specific knowledge of airlines.
Aer Lingus: Tickets work
Air Asia: Tickets worked booked on airline site.
Air Canada: Tickets (via travel agent) work. Bag fees work
Air France: Award fees work
Alaska Airlines: Tickets work. In-flight food does not. Gift certificates do not.
Allegiant: Tickets work, with effort.
Atlantic Airways: Tickets work.
American Airlines: Gift certificates work. Status challenge payment works. In-flight food works. Tickets Work Baggage Fees at Airport works.
ANA: Award taxes
Avianca: Upgrade fees work.
British Airways: Tickets work.
Cebu Pacific: Tickets and bag fees work.
China Airlines: Tickets work.
Delta: Bag fees work. Tickets work. Gift cards work.
Emirates: Gift shop purchases work.
Etihad: Award taxes/fees work
EVA: Sky Shop
Frontier: Ticketing online works 6/18/17
Hawaiian: Bag fees work.
JetBlue: Bag fees work. Tickets work.
KLM: Tickets work.
Korean Air: Ticket (via travel agent) works.
Lufthansa: Tickets work.
Malaysia Airlines: Tickets Work
Qatar Airways: Tickets work.
Turkish Airlines: Tickets work. Upgrade fees work.
Southwest: Gift certificates work. Award fees work. In-flight meal purchases do not work.
Sun Country: Tickets work.
Thomas Cook Airlines: flight from UK to USA, priced in GBP, worked
United: Gift certificates work. Tickets work.
Virgin Atlantic: taxes+YQ for award ticket worked
Points + Cash booking via TY portal: Yes, after manual request.
Report Citi Prestige Success/Fail $250 airline expense reimbursements (2015-2018).
Nov 18, 2015, 2:18 pm
#91
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,857
Card arrived today and I charged $300 in airline costs. See it "pending" in my online transaction list. First statement set to close Dec 4. Should I call and ask them to move up my monthly closing date to Nov 30 to be on safe side? Concerned that airline credit won't post in 2015 on Dec 4 statement. Terms say 1-2 statements for credit. Alternative would be to wait till Dec 4 and if credit doesn't post move up next closing date to Dec 30. Yes?
That said, you've got 17 days for that charge to go from pending to posted. Most charges post within a day or two. The longest I've ever personally seen was 7 days. I think I've seen a report of 10 somewhere here on FT, but that would be extremely rare. Until you hit 7-8 days without it posting, there's nothing to worry about at all. If you hit 10 days, you might want to give them a call (you'd still have a week to work it out before your statement date). But the chances of that happening are pretty much zero.
tl;dr: The charge will post before your closing date.
Nov 18, 2015, 2:25 pm
#92
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,857
The $250 credit is once per calendar year. The charge has to be on a statement that closes in that calendar year in order to qualify. So if you apply now, you've got to have it on your statement that closes in either November or December. If your closing date is the 20th, and you make an airline charge on 12/30, it will be on your January 20 statement, so it will count as 2016 instead of 2015.
Nov 19, 2015, 6:39 am
#93
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 742
Anyone get credit for buying avianca points? Its the 2+x1 promo right now and I need to top up.
Nov 19, 2015, 10:51 am
#94
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If you have ever purchased Avianca points (or can find someone who has) see who processed the credit card transaction. If it was a third party, such as Points International (points.com) it won't qualify. If it was processed by Avianca it should be eligible.
Nov 19, 2015, 12:14 pm
#95
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: 212
Programs: Marriott Titanium, Hilton Gold, UA Silver
Posts: 502
Just had my statement close and got the $250 reimbursement for the gift registry. Wonderful. Gonna do it again Jan 2016.
Nov 20, 2015, 8:40 am
#96
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Denver
Posts: 509
$250 Southwest gift card purchased directly from their website. Successfully received reimbursement when statement closed. ^
Nov 20, 2015, 8:59 am
#97
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,303
With SW giving a 40-45% discount by booking with points and their bookings being way more flexible in that "if there's an open seat you can book" why would people use the $250 air credit on SW gift cards?
Nov 20, 2015, 9:53 am
#98
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Denver
Posts: 509
Sometimes you have to book last minute and WGA fares are not available. Points use in those cases are a terrible waste. Additionally, i frequently travel SW on business, which get's reimbursed, so applying a gift card in those cases makes perfect sense. There are hundreds of reasons people would pay for a ticket on SW instead of using points.
Now if you're telling me there's a way to generate unlimited Southwest points at a 45% discount (essentially paying less than a .8 cents per point, vs the 1.4 cents they're redeemable for), I'm all ears.
Last edited by Cohall; Nov 20, 2015 at 9:59 am
Nov 20, 2015, 10:29 am
#99
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,303
I don't understand the question. It's not like flying Southwest is free 100% of the time. Sometimes you have to pay for tickets. That's kind of how their business model works...
Sometimes you have to book last minute and WGA fares are not available. Points use in those cases are a terrible waste. Additionally, i frequently travel SW on business, which get's reimbursed, so applying a gift card in those cases makes perfect sense. There are hundreds of reasons people would pay for a ticket on SW instead of using points.
Now if you're telling me there's a way to generate unlimited Southwest points at a 45% discount (essentially paying less than a .8 cents per point, vs the 1.4 cents they're redeemable for), I'm all ears.
Sometimes you have to book last minute and WGA fares are not available. Points use in those cases are a terrible waste. Additionally, i frequently travel SW on business, which get's reimbursed, so applying a gift card in those cases makes perfect sense. There are hundreds of reasons people would pay for a ticket on SW instead of using points.
Now if you're telling me there's a way to generate unlimited Southwest points at a 45% discount (essentially paying less than a .8 cents per point, vs the 1.4 cents they're redeemable for), I'm all ears.
Nov 20, 2015, 4:49 pm
#100
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, MLife Gold, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Caesars Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,940
You probably shouldn't wait. Citi (like most issuers) doesn't usually update your closing date for your current billing period. It always (at least in my experience, and those I've seen from others here) takes effect the next billing period. So if you wait until 12/5 to call, your next closing date would still be 1/5. The change to the 30th wouldn't take effect until 1/30.
That said, you've got 17 days for that charge to go from pending to posted. Most charges post within a day or two. The longest I've ever personally seen was 7 days. I think I've seen a report of 10 somewhere here on FT, but that would be extremely rare. Until you hit 7-8 days without it posting, there's nothing to worry about at all. If you hit 10 days, you might want to give them a call (you'd still have a week to work it out before your statement date). But the chances of that happening are pretty much zero.
tl;dr: The charge will post before your closing date.
That said, you've got 17 days for that charge to go from pending to posted. Most charges post within a day or two. The longest I've ever personally seen was 7 days. I think I've seen a report of 10 somewhere here on FT, but that would be extremely rare. Until you hit 7-8 days without it posting, there's nothing to worry about at all. If you hit 10 days, you might want to give them a call (you'd still have a week to work it out before your statement date). But the chances of that happening are pretty much zero.
tl;dr: The charge will post before your closing date.
VIR ATL VSA002 VIRATLCOM CO
and
VIR ATLVVSA001 ANCILLARIES GBR
Interestingly, there is a little "travel tip" underneath each one (Discount car rental etc), so I think they are coding as flights. And in details section it lists Virgin Atlantic as the category. So I think it will be reimbursed. Does the credit ONLY show up on the actual closing date or does it show up a few days after the charge posts? If only on the closing date, I'm going to call in and ask them to move up my closing date to Nov 30. To be safe. Terms say 1-2 cycles for credit to post and I don't want to risk it.
Nov 23, 2015, 1:47 am
#101
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,857
I did not know this re change in closing date. Thanks for the intel! So my charges to virgin atlantic have posted. The line reads:
VIR ATL VSA002 VIRATLCOM CO
and
VIR ATLVVSA001 ANCILLARIES GBR
Interestingly, there is a little "travel tip" underneath each one (Discount car rental etc), so I think they are coding as flights. And in details section it lists Virgin Atlantic as the category. So I think it will be reimbursed. Does the credit ONLY show up on the actual closing date or does it show up a few days after the charge posts? If only on the closing date, I'm going to call in and ask them to move up my closing date to Nov 30. To be safe. Terms say 1-2 cycles for credit to post and I don't want to risk it.
VIR ATL VSA002 VIRATLCOM CO
and
VIR ATLVVSA001 ANCILLARIES GBR
Interestingly, there is a little "travel tip" underneath each one (Discount car rental etc), so I think they are coding as flights. And in details section it lists Virgin Atlantic as the category. So I think it will be reimbursed. Does the credit ONLY show up on the actual closing date or does it show up a few days after the charge posts? If only on the closing date, I'm going to call in and ask them to move up my closing date to Nov 30. To be safe. Terms say 1-2 cycles for credit to post and I don't want to risk it.
From what's been reported, the credit only shows up on the statement closing date. That's par for the course for Citi, who I believe only ever issues credits or points on your statement date (someone correct me if I'm wrong on that point). So asking to move your close date up to the 30th, while probably not necessary, certainly won't hurt anything. Definitely better safe than sorry, and definitely does need to be requested this month, like you're planning to. Hopefully they can/will do it.
Last edited by bobert24; Nov 23, 2015 at 1:53 am
Nov 24, 2015, 7:13 pm
#102
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, MLife Gold, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Caesars Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,940
I'll answer, but this is secondhand knowledge from others in the thread, not firsthand experience. I actually just got my card too, and haven't made my airline spend yet.
From what's been reported, the credit only shows up on the statement closing date. That's par for the course for Citi, who I believe only ever issues credits or points on your statement date (someone correct me if I'm wrong on that point). So asking to move your close date up to the 30th, while probably not necessary, certainly won't hurt anything. Definitely better safe than sorry, and definitely does need to be requested this month, like you're planning to. Hopefully they can/will do it.
From what's been reported, the credit only shows up on the statement closing date. That's par for the course for Citi, who I believe only ever issues credits or points on your statement date (someone correct me if I'm wrong on that point). So asking to move your close date up to the 30th, while probably not necessary, certainly won't hurt anything. Definitely better safe than sorry, and definitely does need to be requested this month, like you're planning to. Hopefully they can/will do it.
In other news: they wouldn't change the closing date. See here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25757042-post1214.html
Nov 25, 2015, 4:27 pm
#103
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 93
Has anyone been successful in getting United MPX - Gift cards reimbursed ?
Nov 26, 2015, 11:23 am
#104
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 476
Got my card this week. Is theres any chance to get the credit, if I charge it today?