Good afternoon everyone.  A few days ago, American Express released a few new AMEX Offers, the best being for Delta Airlines.  Spend $500 or more on Delta airline tickets and get a $100 statement credit.  If you have any travel coming up on Delta, this is an easy offer to complete.  Unfortunately, this offer is somewhat targeted and only showed up on 2 of my 6 cards (Old Blue Cash and Blue Cash Everyday).  In this post, I will show you how quickly the $100 statement credit posts after you purchase your Delta airline tickets online.

As luck would have it, I needed to book some Delta flights for my parents over the weekend.  I priced out the cost for 2 roundtrip flights and the total came to $541.  Delta is the only airline that has nonstop flights from Orange County (SNA) to Salt Lake City (SLC), so the choice was easy.  There were a few other options near the same price, but they all had 1 stop.  Factoring in the $100 statement credit (or $50 saving per ticket) and the Delta flights were the best deal.

I booked the flights directly on Delta’s website on Sunday, March 19 at 12pm and received the AMEX Offer email a few minutes later.

The transactions posted separately on March 20 (each ticket was $270.40) and the $100 statement credit posted the following day on March 21.

Here are more details of the $100 statement credit.

I have 1 more Delta AMEX Offer loaded to my American Express credit card, so I will be on the look out for the next time I can book a paid Delta flight(s) that costs more than $500.  If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.  Have a great day everyone!