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).
Jan 12, 2017, 8:30 pm
#361
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 225
TAP Portugal success
Bought a ticket in December after statement close. Reimbursed (for 2017 as expected) on January statement. Cheers.
Jan 12, 2017, 10:03 pm
#362
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: IND, ORD
Programs: AA Platinum, IHG Platinum, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 134
Signed up for Prestige card March of 2016, made airfare purchase and received a $250 credit on my first statement. Made a airfare purchase in late December 2016 and received a $250 credit on my January 2017 statement. Total of $500 airline credit in one year plus $225 credit for 4th night free and priority pass access for last year, not bad for the $450 annual fee. Now to cancel the card and start using my sapphire reserve card lol.
Jan 14, 2017, 1:46 am
#363
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: Cathay
Posts: 32
Has anyone purchased American Airlines Gift Cards online with their Citi Prestige and had it count towards the Travel Credit? Thanks
Jan 14, 2017, 3:14 am
#364
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 10
SAS
Prepaid SAS bag fees work (added a checked bag for 300 SEK to SAS Go Light)
Jan 14, 2017, 4:21 am
#365
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 292
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...ravelbank.aspx
Accounts have an expiration date of 24 months of inactivity. After that time, the remaining amount will be issued in the form of an electronic travel certificate. The certificate is valid for one year from the date when it is originally issued to the account owner.
Jan 14, 2017, 2:14 pm
#367
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 58
2nd annual fee posted 12/13. Received my third travel credit on my 1/12 statement. Called today (1/14) and requested a product change to Costco Anywhere. The CSR confirmed that the annual fee will be refunded in full, even though supposedly the product change won't take effect until early March.
Jan 15, 2017, 8:45 am
#369
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Thousand Oaks, Ca., USA
Programs: AA Lifetime Plat; Bonvoy Titanium Lifetime Elite;Hyatt Globalist; HHonors Diamond; United Silver
Posts: 8,313
Jan 15, 2017, 6:37 pm
#370
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, MLife Gold, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Caesars Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,938
A few notes - ALLEGIANT has apparently had their merchant code reclassified and the credit did automatically apply (it is now Air Travel - AIRLINE,AIR CARRIER). I also had an agent tell me he would manually request that the ThankYou Portal purchase of airfare be counted towards my credit and that I should see it process within a few days. Unless I notice anything to the contrary, assume for your success/failure purposes that this worked.
Jan 16, 2017, 9:18 am
#371
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 279
I heard that some people reported AA gift cards are coded differently now? Has anyone tried this within the past week or so?
Jan 16, 2017, 9:54 am
#372
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,954
Jan 20, 2017, 8:17 am
#373
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Varies :-)
Programs: AS; AA; UA; DL; VS; BA; Nat'l Emer. Exec.; AGR
Posts: 2,250
I was so delighted to find that UA cannot even seem to make things easy for someone who wants to buy a gift certificate. 
So off to AA.com I went to purchase a GC. Credit from Citi posted smoothly when the statement printed.
So off to AA.com I went to purchase a GC. Credit from Citi posted smoothly when the statement printed.
Jan 23, 2017, 2:28 pm
#374
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: DCA/RIC
Programs: HH LTD, AA LTG
Posts: 1,015
Category: AMERICAN AIRLINES
Jan 24, 2017, 9:53 am
#375
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,857
I'm pretty sure I'll use up my $250 with various fees, etc. without any problem. But I've been curious about this for a while.