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Amex can see the flight you book so it’ll need to be UA metal out of UK.
There’s nothing in the T&Cs I can see which suggests it needs to be UA metal. The UA website is happy to sell me codeshares via Europe (for example, UA 9900 connecting to UA 9929). I guess nobody has tried it?
Regarding flights having to be on UA metal: the first time I used this offer last year was to Costa Rica. The flight I originally booked was LHR-DUB-IAD-LIR, and the first flight was on Aer Lingus metal. Offer triggered without any issues (eventually, some flights got cancelled and I had it changed to a simpler LHR-EWR-LIR).
There’s nothing in the T&Cs I can see which suggests it needs to be UA metal.
I’m fairly sure it doesn’t — the Amex rules on air fare promotions are often quite tightly defined.
The UA website is happy to sell me codeshares via Europe (for example, UA 9900 connecting to UA 9929). I guess nobody has tried it?
Provided you are connecting onto UA metal, why not? you can’t just fly to Europe though AFAIK.
Provided you are connecting onto UA metal, why not? you can’t just fly to Europe though AFAIK.
That’s the thing – the flights I’m looking at are sold by UA, but operated by Brussels Airlines. No UA metal at all.
Provided you are connecting onto UA metal, why not? you can’t just fly to Europe though AFAIK.
That’s the thing – the flights I’m looking at are sold by UA, but operated by Brussels Airlines. No UA metal at all.
Try it, as long as the Brussels flights are fully refundable. Either it triggers the cashback. Or not, and you cancel and get a full refund.
Is there anyway to benefit/credit BA or Virgin accounts with a UA flight? Credit to Aer Lingus??
Worked example yesterday – a refundable LHR-EWR booking resulted in the sole option of refund to payment card. It appears the refund to travel credit option I had in August on US domestic flights is not available on ex-UK flights.
I booked a flight using the £350 cashback offer which I have to cancel now, my flight is not refundable but I am getting the option to get travel credit on United. Did anyone have any experience with this? Will Amex clawback the £350 if I cancel for future travel credit?
Pending nightmare!
So I booked this morning, a £650 flight EDI-EWR return, and added some seat selections to take me over the £700.However I see the United site has billed me in £ for the flight but even within the same transaction they have billed me in US$ for the seat selection, OMG.
Will this fail the AMEX offer as it’s not over 700 billed in GBP or will common sense prevail?
Any ideas, I don’t want to add anything else in case it is also billed in dollars
TIA
Pending nightmare!
So I booked this morning, a £650 flight EDI-EWR return, and added some seat selections to take me over the £700.However I see the United site has billed me in £ for the flight but even within the same transaction they have billed me in US$ for the seat selection, OMG.
Will this fail the AMEX offer as it’s not over 700 billed in GBP or will common sense prevail?
Any ideas, I don’t want to add anything else in case it is also billed in dollars
TIA
Wont be a problem as all charges to an amex card is billed eventually in card currency. You’ll have to wait for a few days for the final amount to appear.
I booked a flight using the £350 cashback offer which I have to cancel now, my flight is not refundable but I am getting the option to get travel credit on United. Did anyone have any experience with this? Will Amex clawback the £350 if I cancel for future travel credit?
I expect they will yes
what’s the latest I can use this? would you expect United to take payment with 2 working days of purchase being made online?
what’s the latest I can use this? would you expect United to take payment with 2 working days of purchase being made online?
I expect it’ll show as pending immediately and settle within 2 days
Pending nightmare!
So I booked this morning, a £650 flight EDI-EWR return, and added some seat selections to take me over the £700.However I see the United site has billed me in £ for the flight but even within the same transaction they have billed me in US$ for the seat selection, OMG.
Will this fail the AMEX offer as it’s not over 700 billed in GBP or will common sense prevail?
Any ideas, I don’t want to add anything else in case it is also billed in dollars
TIA
Wont be a problem as all charges to an amex card is billed eventually in card currency. You’ll have to wait for a few days for the final amount to appear.
Spoke to Amex on chat, they said anything billed in dollars even as part of the same flight booking, seat selection etc will not be counted towards £700, even tho obvisously it gets converted too UK£ automatically. What a load of BS, what possible difference does it make?
@RonnieB – did you receive the “You’ve used your United offer” email after spending?
@RonnieB – did you receive the “You’ve used your United offer” email after spending?
No I haven’t yet, although I have to say I don’t always. Didn’t get one for Harvey Nicks last week but that’s come through.
We took a chance and booked a couple of flights today (it being the last day of the offer).
Now the constant inbox refresh to see if the Amex “You’ve used your United Offer” email comes in!
😬😰
Confirm I got the £350 rebate today!
But after AMEX chat told me that extras like seat selection that are billed in USD do not count towards the £700, I called United and managed to get the flight class upgraded for an extra £54 and that was billed in UK£ and took me to £704. That seemed to do the trick and I got the email confirmation soon after.
The T&Cs are pretty clear that anything not billed in UK£ won’t count.Is there any interesting “low fares” dates for the next 12 months from EDI to the US based on your experiences / searches?
Are there specific fares that allow you to receive a travel credit if you cancel?
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