Bought AA credit on 3 different cards. 100, 100, and 65 (used some earlier this year for actual bags charges). All went through and credited back within a day or same day. 12/27, 28

2025 $100 AA eGift Card
 

01/03/2025 air trvl crdt 100 per yr alexandria va -$100.00

01/02/2025 american air fort worth tx $100.00

1/1/25 AA eGC $50
1/6/25 Credit posted (dated 1/2 but did not show until 1/6/25)

1/1/2025: Two AS tickets totaling $118.60 (subsequently canceled and applied to My Wallet).
1/3/2025: Credits of $59.30 and $40.70 posted.

1/3/25 - $45 UA seat upgrade from Economy Plus to First class x2
1/5/25 - $45 x2 Air Travel Credits posted

Is the airfare credit per calendar year? Or per membership year?

Calendar year.

Purchased UA Travel bank 1/3. Credit posted today but the date shows 1/5. This is the second year in a row it worked.

My 1/1 purchase of $98 airfare hasn't credited yet.

$45 to go from economy to first class? Please share more details.

So the WIKI says the TC is 100 per calendar year. Will they count that as 2024 when the spend occurred or 2025 when the credit was offered?

In any case, congrats.

Don't really use this card much. Have 600 points expiring. Anyway to convert to miles or hotel points? The minimum redemption seems to be 1k in the cart.

Economy Plus to First, yes. Not plain Economy to First. On a whopping 1 hour long connection flight.

Pregnant wife = whatever it took for the added space and comfort of not being in a row with a third person. Plus Penfed being one of the airline credits where you can actually use it on seat upgrades directly rather than settling for fake money like TB that can't be used for upgrades or GCs made it worthwhile.

Well heck, that is still a touchdown! I think you beat 40 dollars in McDonalds cards as an alternate use case. Funny thing, I grabbed a first class on an American regional just like this. Then, they still gave a welcome glass of champaign but after that the honeymoon was over. But the seat was definitely comfortable. When faced with the options for the Pathfinder, the flight incidentals or travel bank are probably the best ones out there. But even more important, Happy Wife = Happy Life!

Made a $100 AA eGift card purchase 01/07/2025, credit has not posted yet.

Edited to add that the credit posted on Jan 15th