Exactly as you said. So the AS gift card idea failed. I still have $100 of value left and am considering AA gift cards maybe 2x$50. Last week I flew on Frontier and thought well finally I will buy some overpriced food/drink and use part of it that way. To my surprise the charge never appeared. It has been 4 days. I am thinking now perhaps they didn't swipe the card properly on the handheld reader the flight attendant has so the charge never happened. They did bring me a snack pack though. This 'free money' is so hard to use! I didn't read the fine print to see it is only US based airlines, so when I paid $140 for baggage fees on BA a month ago I thought I had this, then I realized BA will not qualify. It is getting expensive to keep trying these things to use this 'free money' and they aren't working and don't get reimbursed!

We confirmed this does NOT work.

Got a Frontier ticket for $96. Didn't trigger the credit.

As of 2 days ago, $50 AA GC and $50 United TB still work for the $100 credit.

Has anyone tried buying miles, specifically Air Alaska miles?

UA Travel Bank
 

Confirming this week 11/2024 a $50 UA Travel Bank purchase worked to trigger the rebate. Prior experiment with AS gift card failed it didn't even come thru as a travel purchase. But the UA Travel Bank credits expire in 5 years. I hope to be able to use them. Not sure, but I think the AA gift cards don't expire. I did UA over AA for other reasons I rarely travel on AA anymore.

10/21/2024: $100 AA eGC - NOT credited
11/11/2024: $50 UA TravelBank - 11/13/2024: credited

12/2/2024 - $50 AA eGC - credited

tried again, still rejection, this is so stupid.

I appreciate everyone who contributes to the updates on this thread. Here is my contribution: about 10 days ago I bought a $100 AA GC and $100 in United travel bank credits on two different Pathfinder cards. It took about a week for the credits to be issued but they were issued for both. I think it took a little longer for the United charge to credit, by maybe a day or so. So I am happy to confirm that both AA and United still work! Remember that United travel bank credits expire after 5 years.

I got award tickets on Alaska in Nov, one with $100+ required and one with $30.60 required. The latter was credited. I bought a $70 AA GC and was promptly credited the expected $69.40.

DP : Southwest ticket purchase for $43 was credited two days later.

12/27 - $100 AA eGC
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12/28/2024 AIR TRVL CRDT 100 PER YR ALEXANDRIA VA -$100.00
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Credit posted 12/31 :tu:
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just bought mine as well. $50 AA, $50 United. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼

First time in a while I've seen AA not get credited. It can take time for the credits to appear,sometimes multiple billing cycles. Can you provide an update once 3 cycles have passed?

12/26 $100 AA eGC
12/27 Credited