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Amex airline credit successfully changed

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:21:07 GMT

Just FYI for all of you. Me and my wife currently had 3 platinums, 2 gold, and 2 aspire airline credits devoted to AA this year since we were planning an international flight with them. However, we did not get them in before the switch in Amex coding. So we went to chat and was able to change all of them to Southwest for our upcoming trip to disneyworld after the January deadline. Not sure how we were going to spend $1300 on just incidentals on AA. Glad Southwest GC still works. If they kill this loophole I would have to re-evaluate some of my high AF cards.

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NRB525 — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:02:56 GMT

Congrats, hopefully it works again next year

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Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 15:34:20 GMT

Southwest worked for me too.

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NRB525 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 15:50:27 GMT

How many gift cards can you use on a single transaction at Southwest or AA?

With Delta we are limited to three Gift Card slots in the payment options.

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Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:46:23 GMT

"Southwest gift cards – A maximum of three Southwest gift cards can be applied per passenger on each reservation. If your purchase exceeds the amount available on the three Southwest gift cards, you will only be allowed to use two Southwest gift cards and another form of payment will be required for the difference."

https://www.southwest.com/html/air/products/gift-card-terms-and-conditions.html

This does say per passenger...I would read that to be that two passengers on one itinerary could use 6

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Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:47:01 GMT

I was able to call Delta and book a round-trip itinerary using 5 $50 Delta gift cards. Your mileage may vary, of course, but I was happy to find that I could use more than 3 gift cards by speaking to a rep.

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red259 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:48:43 GMT

How large of a SW card can you buy and still get the amex credit? I'd rather do a single $200 card then go to delta and do a bunch of $50 cards which won't even cover the airfares I need if they don't let me use more than three at a time. Also I read that you can't even use delta giftcrads to buy comfort seats etc. Southwest fares seem to be a lot cheaper than Delta as well, although I am not thrilled with the availble southwest routes. I was thinking I could use a SW card to fly roundtrip NY-Orlando or maybe to dominican republic or mexico city. Southwest isn't really ideal for me but if its easier to redeem giftcards etc it might be the route I need to go.

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Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:15:51 GMT

I believe SW max gift card is $100. I usually travel in a group so it’s easy for us to divide it between us to allow a bunch of GC redemptions. If it’s domestic flight you could buy them each as one way also doubling the amount of GC you could use per trip. Domestically it makes sense, but I know most international flights penalize you for not buying round trip in the airfare price.

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iced — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:12:15 GMT

@red259 wrote:
How large of a SW card can you buy and still get the amex credit? I'd rather do a single $200 card then go to delta and do a bunch of $50 cards which won't even cover the airfares I need if they don't let me use more than three at a time. Also I read that you can't even use delta giftcrads to buy comfort seats etc. Southwest fares seem to be a lot cheaper than Delta as well, although I am not thrilled with the availble southwest routes. I was thinking I could use a SW card to fly roundtrip NY-Orlando or maybe to dominican republic or mexico city. Southwest isn't really ideal for me but if its easier to redeem giftcards etc it might be the route I need to go.

Do you mean using gift cards to upgrade to Comfort+ (W) fares? That, I don't know. However, if you're buying a ticket in Comfort+ or First you absolutely can, and it's usually cheaper than upgrading later. If you know you want to fly in Comfort+, I recommend you buy Comfort+ from the get-go and slap on any gift cards you want to use then.

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red259 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:12:12 GMT

@iced wrote:
@red259 wrote:
How large of a SW card can you buy and still get the amex credit? I'd rather do a single $200 card then go to delta and do a bunch of $50 cards which won't even cover the airfares I need if they don't let me use more than three at a time. Also I read that you can't even use delta giftcrads to buy comfort seats etc. Southwest fares seem to be a lot cheaper than Delta as well, although I am not thrilled with the availble southwest routes. I was thinking I could use a SW card to fly roundtrip NY-Orlando or maybe to dominican republic or mexico city. Southwest isn't really ideal for me but if its easier to redeem giftcards etc it might be the route I need to go.
Do you mean using gift cards to upgrade to Comfort+ (W) fares? That, I don't know. However, if you're buying a ticket in Comfort+ or First you absolutely can, and it's usually cheaper than upgrading later. If you know you want to fly in Comfort+, I recommend you buy Comfort+ from the get-go and slap on any gift cards you want to use then.

I dunno I guess maybe you can if you buy it outright, but you can't buy an upgrade apparently. Per Delta's own terms "They may not be used for any additional fees (including baggage fees) or for any other products or services (including upgrades, in-flight purchases, premium seating, mileage booster, SkyMiles Cruises, cargo, hotel stays, or car rentals). "

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NRB525 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:28:07 GMT

Correct, you cannot use a gift card to upgrade to Comfort+ but you can use a GC when purchasing a seat in Comfort+ as the original itinerary.

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red259 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:24:16 GMT

@NRB525 wrote:
Correct, you cannot use a gift card to upgrade to Comfort+ but you can use a GC when purchasing a seat in Comfort+ as the original itinerary.

Yea the whole reason I asked the question was because I saw one of your posts from last year about it.

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red259 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:25:49 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I believe SW max gift card is $100. I usually travel in a group so it’s easy for us to divide it between us to allow a bunch of GC redemptions. If it’s domestic flight you could buy them each as one way also doubling the amount of GC you could use per trip. Domestically it makes sense, but I know most international flights penalize you for not buying round trip in the airfare price.

Is there a limit on how many GCs you can redeem with SW at a time?

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Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:33:44 GMT

@red259 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I believe SW max gift card is $100. I usually travel in a group so it’s easy for us to divide it between us to allow a bunch of GC redemptions. If it’s domestic flight you could buy them each as one way also doubling the amount of GC you could use per trip. Domestically it makes sense, but I know most international flights penalize you for not buying round trip in the airfare price.
Is there a limit on how many GCs you can redeem with SW at a time?

3, according to the T&C on LUV's website.

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Merlin3482 — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:46:03 GMT

Congrats on working the loophole into your favor!