One great benefit of having an American
Express Platinum card or Premier Rewards Gold card is that you get an airline
fee credit every calendar year. With the
Platinum card, you get $200 airline fee credit and with the Premier Rewards
Gold card, you get $100 airline fee credit.
According to AMEX, eligible
incidental fees include:
·
Checked baggage fees
·
Itinerary change fees
·
Phone reservation fees
·
Pet flight fees
·
Seat assignment fees
·
In-flight amenity fees (beverages, food, pillows/blankets, headphones)
·
In-flight entertainment fees (excluding wifi fees)
·
Airport lounge day passes & annual memberships
Different airlines you can choose include:
Alaska, American, US Airways, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian, Jet Blue, Spirit,
United, Southwest and AirTran. You select
an airline here; you can select a different airline every calendar
year.
In the past, I’ve used this airline credit
to get a $200 Amazon gift card from my previous Platinum card ($200 Amazon gift
card loophole has now been closed) and multiple Southwest Airlines gift cards
from my Premier Rewards Gold card. Since
you can no longer get an Amazon gift card with the airline fee credit, I
decided to get another $100 Southwest Airlines gift card with my Premier Rewards Gold card. I closed my Platinum card last year; if I
still had it, I would have used it to buy $200 worth of Southwest Airlines gift
cards.
I
first made sure that I had Southwest Airlines gift card purchases were still
being credited by American Express. I
went to this Flyertalk
thread to confirm that Southwest gift card purchases were still being
credited. Then I made sure that
Southwest Airlines was selected as my airline of choice here. Finally, I
went to purchase a Southwest Airlines gift card here.
2
days after my $100 Southwest Airlines gift card purchase was charged, I
received a $100 statement
credit. Woohoo!
