$200 Airline Reimbursement for AMEX Platinum Members
If you have an American Express Platinum (Personal, Business, or Mercedes Benz version), you qualify for a $200 airline reimbursement each calendar year (Jan 1 – Dec 31). You can also purchase airline gift cards with your Platinum card and get that purchase reimbursed as well. I will show you how to do that.
Go here and log into your American Express account.
Select your airline from the drop down menu. You can choose only 1 airline per calendar year.
I fly southwest Airlines frequently, and I want to purchase Southwest Airlines gift cards with my Platinum card, so I select Southwest/AirTran from the drop down list and click Enroll.
If you want to select a different airline, check out this FlyerTalk post referencing all the other airlines from the drop down menu.
Confirm that you have selected the right airline and click Enroll.
Confirmation screen showing it takes 2-4 weeks for the reimbursement to process.
A confirmation email showing all the fees that the Platinum card will reimburse.
Now I go to Southwest.com and purchase a gift card.
Enter any amount you want, select free email delivery, enter your email address, and click Continue.
I bought a $100 gift card to make sure the purchase was reimbursed.
Purchase was successful.
After a few minutes, I received the Southwest gift card via email.
$100 purchase showed up on my Platinum card right away.
2 days later, I received an email from American Express telling me I received a $100 merchant credit. Looks like my $100 Southwest gift card purchase worked. Time to buy a second $100 gift card.
Here is what the charges and credits look like in my account.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.
