United £350 cashback for sister’s flight

[LukeLukeLukeLuke]

Hello. I want to book a flight on United as a gift for my sister. It would be just her travelling.

If I book this, under her name but using my card, is this against the rules at all? More importantly, would it void the £350 cashback?

The rest of the rules should be fine. UK-US return flight, United Airlines, over £700 GBP, United UK website.

[NorthernLass]

Should be fine as long as it complies with the Ts and Cs of the offer.

[RonnieB]

Should work but getting pretty close to promo cut off date for comfort.

[LukeLukeLukeLuke]

Thanks both. I can’t see anything in the generic offer T&Cs saying about names. I know Amex get a lot of ticket info from airlines, but there’s nothing clear saying this is disallowed for the £350 cashback.

I’m Aiming to book the flights tomorrow. Sister doesn’t have her own credit card, so the difference in protection for her name vs my name is fine.

Cut-off hopefully shouldn’t be an issue as I’d imagine United should bill the card ASAP.

[Alex G]

Some airlines used to say that you must show the credit card used for booking when you check in, but I have never seen it enforced. And in these days of online check in and self service bag drop, I can’t see it being a problem.

[ar]

Won’t be a problem.

[iEimis]

I booked it for my sister, wasn’t a problem.

[John]

Alex G wrote:

Some airlines used to say that you must show the credit card used for booking when you check in, but I have never seen it enforced. And in these days of online check in and self service bag drop, I can’t see it being a problem.

I recently noticed that all my e-ticket receipts from BA say this, but never been asked.

I believe airlines which do ask only do so when no 2FA method was used when making the online purchase.

I also noticed that every airline has its own MCC and 3 individual airlines are excluded from Curve cash back (KLM, Hawaiian and Spirit)