Haven’t Used Your Chase Ritz-Carlton $300 Travel Credit? Here’s What To Know

The Chase Ritz-Carlton card offers a $300 travel credit that can be used for airline incidentals per calendar year. Like the American Express travel credits this calendar year is based on a true calendar year (e.g January 1st – December 1st) rather than a statement calendar year (e.g January statement – December statement, like the Chase Sapphire Reserve & Citi Prestige).

This means that your purchase must POST to your account before December 31st to be eligible. Also keep in mind that you need to call the number on the back of your card to get eligible purchases reimbursed, this must be done within 4 billing cycles to be eligible.

The following purchases officially count:

Only the following types of non-ticket purchases qualify for this offer: airline lounge day pass, or towards a yearly lounge membership of your choice; airline seat upgrades; airline baggage fees; in-flight Internet/entertainment; in-flight meals

We’ve tried to keep the following page updated with what is still working/not working. I’d recommend reading that in full and also sharing your data points in the comments to make it a more useful resource for everybody.

As always, if you have any questions about this credit please let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them for you. You can view other posts in this series:

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K10
K10 (@guest_621230)
July 24, 2018 13:57

Worked for 4 $75 credits on AA – I secure messaged Chase through the portal and the credits posted once the transactions posted

king
king (@guest_622575)
July 27, 2018 00:08

Were they e-gift cards or actual gift cards? And how long did u wait, if at all, to do the transitions? Did you buy the gift cards right after each other? Thanks

Adam
Adam (@guest_611816)
July 2, 2018 18:42

Called about an $150 southwest gift card a few weeks ago and received letter from JP Morgan that they tried to contact me (to my knowledge they did not). Called them back and they knew it was a gift card and could not use the travel fee for it. Used the travel credit last year on $150 gift cards no problem.

Brandon Sosa
Brandon Sosa (@guest_619669)
July 20, 2018 16:05

Did you buy the giftcard from Southwest.com?

Joe S
Joe S (@guest_539403)
December 20, 2017 23:17

Are SW gift cards still working? Need to spend $175 still on my card.

Josh
Josh (@guest_545145)
January 1, 2018 14:40

I just bought a $100 SW gift card today, will report back when I call in and request credit.

Did yours work?

Felipe
Felipe (@guest_550367)
January 12, 2018 23:30

Did the credit work for the southwest gift card?

nick
nick (@guest_551326)
January 16, 2018 22:16

Were you able to get it reimbursed?

T
T (@guest_342570)
January 23, 2017 01:37

Alaska airlines gift cards DO NOT WORK! They show on your statement as Alaska Air gift cert.

Parkerthon
Parkerthon (@guest_334886)
January 6, 2017 10:52

FYI, Delta GC’s are showing up Delta Gift Card on my chase statement. Pretty sure that’s not going to get credited. Thanks Delta!

Milo
Milo (@guest_331823)
December 28, 2016 12:51

Does the claims needs to be posted before 12/31 or It doesn’t matter as long as the expense was made before 12/31?

Vic
Vic (@guest_326915)
December 14, 2016 02:41

How do Visa Infinite flight purchases post?
Trying to claim the flight purchases using the $300 travel credit as well as getting the Visa Infinite $100 discount. Thanks!

Christine
Christine (@guest_324478)
December 7, 2016 21:19

I’ve had a $150 SW gift card (bought on southwest.com) credited. Told them it was luggage fees. No questions asked. This was last week

Ed
Ed (@guest_330257)
December 22, 2016 11:54

I can verify this as well. Bought a $150 SW gift card (online) on December 13. Called today and told them it was luggage fees – no questions asked and the reimbursement was granted. As a note, I requested this reimbursement with two other Southwest reimbursements (for early boarding) and a Jetblue reimbursement (for an even more legroom seat). Figured it couldn’t hurt to ask for the gift card reimbursement with other transactions.

gary
gary (@guest_408498)
May 19, 2017 22:45
  Ed

does sw show as gift cards on the transaction history and the csr not notice it, or does it show generically. same question for AA as thinking of doing both as just got card

Shawn
Shawn (@guest_532418)
December 8, 2017 01:56

It doesn’t show for my CSR. I don’t see any reason why it would show for the Ritz Carlton card.

Adam
Adam (@guest_324477)
December 7, 2016 21:15

Secure Messages work to get the credits as well in lieu of calling.

Tav Hare
Tav Hare (@guest_324834)
December 8, 2016 17:20

Yeah, I always SM, saves a lot of time, and they generally do it within 24 hours.

Matthew
Matthew (@guest_324456)
December 7, 2016 20:14

Has anyone had experience getting united Economy Plus seating credited? I’m thinking of getting an economy plus subscription for the family ($900) and to me that would count as “Seat Upgrades”. Anyone?