Amex Offers: Air Berlin Get 20,000 Bonus MR Points with $1,000 Spend [Targeted]

The Offer

  • Get 20,000 bonus Membership Rewards points when spending $1,000 on Air Berlin

The Fine Print

  • Expires 9/4/17

Our Verdict

This offer is highly targeted, one friend found it on their PRG cards. 20,000 points is certainly an increbile number for an Amex Offer, but obviously it only works if you have $1k+ of Air Berlin flights to schedule.

Hat tip to M.F.

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Karl Tingwald
Karl Tingwald (@guest_433852)
July 5, 2017 16:40

Got this and previously got the AF offer on my EDP.

artgriego
artgriego (@guest_433844)
July 5, 2017 16:36

Got it on BGR, 1/6 MR cards

Chuck N
Chuck N (@guest_433836)
July 5, 2017 16:21

Refundable tickets are great, worst case they take the MR back(not my experience)

Lantean
Lantean (@guest_433839)
July 5, 2017 16:28

isn’t this the recipe for getting banned from Amex completely and having all our MR confiscated?

Chuck N
Chuck N (@guest_433867)
July 5, 2017 17:00

I don’t possibly see why it would be. It’s their job to take back the MR if you refund the flight, if they don’t do it’s on them.

artgriego
artgriego (@guest_433882)
July 5, 2017 17:12

No…it’s above the board to buy a refundable ticket and get it refunded, and above the board for them to clawback the MR.

Glenn
Glenn (@guest_434173)
July 6, 2017 01:36

Not my experience. Whether cash discount or MR points award, when you refund the charge the credit gets clawed back.

Jason
Jason (@guest_434277)
July 6, 2017 07:11

Agreed….

Clawback is standard practice based on my experience.

Chuck N
Chuck N (@guest_434367)
July 6, 2017 10:03

I’ve got 80,000 MR to say otherwise, nothing to lose by trying.

Drew
Drew (@guest_434281)
July 6, 2017 07:20

My points from the AF offer were clawed back.

Jaq Lauda
Jaq Lauda (@guest_433833)
July 5, 2017 16:19

This is highly tempting but note that it’s probably risky to make plans too far into the future involving Air Berlin:

“In January 2017, Air Berlin announced a massively downsized and changed route network for the upcoming 2017 season with nearly all leisure routes are either transferred to Niki or cancelled altogether. Additionally, some domestic and European metropolitan routes are also dropped with the remaining considerably smaller network focusing on the Berlin-Tegel and Düsseldorf hubs.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Berlin_destinations

artgriego
artgriego (@guest_433884)
July 5, 2017 17:13

You mean you worry they’ll go under? Or because your flight could be cancelled (and presumably refunded)? Seems the easiest scenario, actually, to me.

Jaq Lauda
Jaq Lauda (@guest_434295)
July 6, 2017 07:59

I live in a city which is served by Air Berlin, I have family in Europe and I got this offer on three of my cards (PRGs). So theoretically this is a wonderful opportunity for me to get a bunch of points.

However:

1) The earliest I could travel would be next year, since I already made plans for this year.

2) I am unable to find *any* Air Berlin flights to Europe, other than the direct flight from my city to their hub (Dusseldorf).

3) The price for the ticket above is non-competitive – double what other carriers are asking and that’s for Air Berlin’s low cost option (they one that requires paying for all extras, such as reserving a seat etc).

4) Why would I bother spending a few thousand dollars for tickets that may end up being cancelled by a carrier whose prospects seem pretty fragile?! And then having Amex clawback the bonus points?

FWIW, I also got the AirFrance offer, earlier this year, and I was able to take advantage of it. However, it did require interacting multiple times with Amex, since their system thought the requirements were not met.

David - The City Miler
David - The City Miler (@guest_433829)
July 5, 2017 16:14

What a specific offer. FWIW, I don’t have it on my current two Amex personal credit cards, one charge, and one business credit.

Great one if you were planning on flying anyway. Probably not easy (or possible) to take advantage of otherwise.

Credit
Credit (@guest_433825)
July 5, 2017 16:08

I had the air France offer and couldn’t use it. Great if you are flying anyway. Else who cares.