Does anyone have any experience purchasing gift cards from Frontier and as well using them? Any idea how it shows up in the description as a line item on the card statement and what MCC it is listed under (merchant category)?

I'm looking for ways to use my airline reimbursement from CRC, and a free cheap flight is never a bad thing if I can swing it, any experience or insight would be great.


Thanks!

Forget physical gift cards for starters. They're clearly outsourced:

https://www.flyfrontier.com/programs...cards/physical
That leaves only virtual gift cards, about which they don't say anything about who fulfills them. Maybe it's Frontier themselves, but that's not clear.

https://www.flyfrontier.com/programs...cards/purchase

The virtual gift cards can be bought in as low a quantity as $25, so if you get no answers from anyone else, it might that much to run the experiment yourself. Then if it does happen to work, virtual gift cards can be bought in as high a quantity as $1500.

But I don't see how you earn any Frontier points for it, because nowhere in the virtual gift card purchase process does it ask for your Frontier frequent flyer number (or for you to log in), and it's not in the Frequent Flyer portion of the website.

Great thanks for the response, I'm less worried about the FF points (I know, sacrilege) but more hopeful for the $200 airline reimbursement for this year and next, which would end up with $400 in free Frontier GC, enough to get myself and girlfriend to Denver for next to nothing OOP

Wait a second, you can't do this all this year?

Whatever is possible to do with virtual gift cards on the Frontier website now, it's not guaranteed that it will still be possible to do it after the end of the year, given the latest news:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/front...-frontier.html

Not sure what that has to do with it?

Not like they'll just decide to not honor Frontier gift cards, and there is no perspective date as far as I can tell for the buy out.

I was referring to buying, not using. Your explanation implied that you have to buy one $200 gift card now and another in 2014 to make this work (rather than being able to buy $400 of gift cards right now). My concern is that the buying of the virtual gift card that works now may not work by Jan 2014. If nothing else, even if it's not outsourced (like the physical cards are now), it might get outsourced by then. (Even before the announcement of the sale, Frontier has been changing various things behind the scenes, and this could always be one of them.)

At any rate, you still need to determine whether the virtual gift card purchase is actulaly billed the way you need it. If you can't find anyone else who's ever done it, you'll have to do your own experiment (of at least $25)!

Once you determine that (if you can), it would seem to me that the safest timeiline would be to wait until December to buy the first card, and then buy the second card in early January (if you need to buy two cards in different calendar years).

Ah very true, understood. I would prefer not to have to do the experiment on my own, as I'm not a FF and have no plans to use Frontier unless I end up getting a 'free' trip to Denver. Guess we'll see what happens and hopefully someone will come across this thread that has actually purchased a virtual gift card before.

So guessing no one has experience with purchasing virtual Frontier gift cards online? Will probably toss the dice on a $25 card shortly to check and see if credit works out, however would prefer to know how it shows up with Visa Merchant Code ahead of time rather than testing the waters.




Edit: Well after a brief call and getting bounced around for awhile, I landed with the main (read American) gift card support line. After having them check into it, seems like both the physical and virtual cards are handled by the same 3rd party, so looks like a no go for frontier gift cards as an airline reimbursement.

I bought a $50 frontier gift card on a Biz Plat and got no Amex reimbursement. Showed up on my statement as "Frontier Gift Card" so did not bother to call CS.

Otoh, I charged $73 for a ticket to the Biz Plat and got the reimbursement.