The Offer
No direct link, e-mail subject line is “<First Name>, earn 15,000 points with a $750+ Delta flight”
- Earn 15,000 bonus points when you make a single flight purchase of $750+ with Delta or partners Air France, Alitalia, KLM and Virgin Atlantic on amextravel.com
The Fine Print
- Offer valid only for air travel booked between 12:00am CST 8/07/2017 – 11:59pm CST 09/30/2017.
- Limit of 15,000 additional Membership Rewards points per Card when making a single qualifying purchase of $750 or more for air travel online.
- Valid only for domestic or international air travel booked on amextravel.com for Delta Air Lines® and select partner airlines including Air France, Alitalia, KLM, and Virgin Atlantic.
- If your flight has a segment operated by a partner other than Delta, Air France, KLM, Alitalia or Virgin Atlantic, you may not be eligible to receive the Membership Rewards points.
- Valid only on US website.
- Taxes and fees count towards spend eligibility. Spend with Personalized Travel Service or Platinum Travel Service does not qualify.
- Offer not valid at American Express Travel offices.
- Offer not valid on flight portion when booking flight + hotel together.
- Membership Rewards points will appear on your billing statement within 30 to 90 days of the purchase date.
- Membership Rewards points may be reversed if qualifying purchase is cancelled.
- You will not receive the Membership Rewards points if your transaction is made through a third party.
- Offer can be discontinued without notice.
- This offer is not combinable with other offers. You must pay with your targeted Card in order to receive the Membership Rewards point bonus. O
- nly U.S.-issued American Express® Cards that are enrolled in the Membership Rewards program at the time of purchase are eligible.
- These additional points are in addition to any points you would normally receive for purchases on your Card under the terms of your Card Member Agreement and the Membership Rewards program.
- When we calculate the additional points benefit for Amex EveryDay® Card products, points awarded under this offer will not be included.
- Terms and conditions for the Membership Rewards program, as well as annual Program fees may apply for certain Card products.
- Visit membershiprewards.com/terms or call 1-800-AXP EARN (297-3276) for more information.
- The value of Membership Rewards points varies according to how you choose to use them. To learn more, go to www.membershiprewards.com/pointsinfo.
Our Verdict
There is currently another targeted offer giving $160 back on $800+ spend, the reader that sent this in was actually targeted for both offers. Unfortunately you can’t combine them as this offer requires booking through amextravel and the other offer requires booking through Delta directly. If you have both offers it’ll depend on what you value more: 15,000 Membership Rewards points or $160 cash back (also keep in mind the different spend requirements and fact one is direct and other is through amextravel).
Hat tip to reader Anand
I have read once that when booking at OTA’s, would still post like airline. Is it still the case?..Like booking a Delta flight on priceline or expedia.
For regular OTAs, like Priceline or Expedia, that is usually the case- it posts like it came from the airline and you do get the 5x on Platinum (even though the terms for Platinum specifically state that the charge must be directly at airlines). However, for amextravel, it seems that upon posting, it shows up as amextravel and not the airline, unlike regular OTAs.
Doesn’t amex travel bookings results in a charge directly with the airline?
I.e. Just booked a trip via amex travel with personal platinum to get 5x and received congrats email for the delta $800+ offer
It will show pending like the charge was directly through delta but when it posts it will show Amex travel unfortunately
Well Michael you are right about what happened, BUT the offer did get triggered and posted!
This one probably belong in the “lab” section, here is how I managed to maximize:
– Book delta tickets via amex travel, pay with points
– Charged to platinum personal card, hoping for 5x airfare to come through
– Delta charge appeared briefly, then charge changed to Amex Travel
– Congrats email for Delta from amex, $160 posted!
– Waiting for 50% points refund to post from business platinum…