At the end of last year, I noticed a lot of readers in a mad rush to use up their travel credits on different premium cards at the absolute last minute. As we also saw last year, loopholes do get closed (e.g MPX no longer works for the American Express Platinum card) so I’d strongly recommend using your travel credits sooner rather than later.
What does/doesn’t trigger the airline credit varies by card. Across all cards airline incidentals count so if you frequently make these types of purchases then it’s worth saving your travel credit for those purchases.
- What Triggers The Chase Sapphire Reserve Airline Credit
- What Triggers The Citi Prestige Airline Credit
- What Triggers The Ritz-Carlton Airline Credit
- What Triggers The City National Bank Airline Credit
- What Triggers The American Express Airline Credit
Even if you don’t/can’t use these credits up early, I’d set yourself reminders for later in the year. Remember that the Chase Sapphire Reserve & Citi Prestige cards require that your transaction post to your December statement for 2017 (rather than being based on a calendar year) to be eligible so I’d set yourself a reminder for November to use up any credits to make sure they’ll post on your December statement.
Could I apply for the Sapphire Reserve this month, use the airline credit and still have the opportunity to use the airline credit again before my next AF?
Yes, as soon as your december 2017 statement closes you could use it up and then close before the next AF.
Flyer talk is screwy today, FYI
Good stuff Although the AA link doesnt work
Do you know if Amex is still anal about not doing MS to meet the minimum spend? Especially on the platinum cards
Probably shared the wrong link. Follow the Alaska link and in the lower right of the FT wiki you’ll see links to the other airlines
Whoops, meant to reply to Sam instead.
Not anal at all, just got my second 50,000 MR points a few weeks ago. MSed all $15,000 of it then did the same for my platinum upgrade from gold.
The problem is in hidden financial review. Basically you don’t know if they run it. Even if you spent all the points they can took points back and your account can experience a negative point balance. This mean you will owe them points. I have not MSed, all organic spending, however they took 100k points back due to I closed the card before financial review was finished. They said that the points were frozen and they did not found any MS. They were going to return points but the card (not rewards account) was closed and they were unable to return points. So, be careful with AmEx.
So just use up the points and give them the middle finger. If they give me a negative ballance on my points ballance after I have drained the points I could care less. Simply move on. What are they gonna do?
Yes they are.
Any reason the FT links for AA and UA are gone?
They made a new thread or something for 2017 I guess? I’ve fixed it now.
You wrote that MPX no longer works for Platinum travel credits. What about PRG?
It doesn’t work neither
No
United page no good…?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-express-membership-rewards/1812742-airline-fee-200-100-reimbursement-reports-ua-only.html fixed, thanks for letting me know.
I already used $300 CSR, $300 Ritz and $100 Amex PRG for 2017. Only $200 Amex plat left which will be done soon
Nice job!
I found that because my December billing was on the 5th, I missed out on $49 of credits for my CSR 🙁
That’s annoying, make sure you use up your credit nice and early!