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I bought a flight today to use the offer. Flight was £625, seat charge was $99. When the Amex confirm with code text came in to confirm it showed £700.47 so I confirmed. Only the £625 is pending, will this uplift to over £700 or will the $99 post separately and I wont be able to get the £300 cash back 😭?
Foreign currency charges typically don’t show in the pending section on the amex app/website. It can take a few days to update but you should be ok.
P.S. If that £700.47 includes Amex’s 2.99% forex charge on the $99 then you’ll be screwed.
If the seat charge is separate and most likely in $US then it’s not counted. I fell foul of this a couple of years ago – but you can phone their customer services and they will upgrade the flight to a different fare bucket so it is over £700
Interestingly, he has received the Amex email to say he has used the offer….but app still saying £625 pending 🤞
Interestingly, he has received the Amex email to say he has used the offer….but app still saying £625 pending 🤞
You’ll be fine then. When I was £5 under the £400 Marriott threshold the offer triggered immediately that I put the car parking charge at the hotel on it. That’s how I confirmed that the 2.99 forex charge doesn’t count to the threshold.
Maybe T&Cs have changed cos seat fees didn’t count when I used it. Bit mean also for them to reduce to £300 from £350 back 🙁
If I book a flight from DC to Tokyo (one way), I am getting a GBP price on the united website. Price is way above £700. Any chance the offer would work?
I would imagine not because the T&Cs say “only valid on flights departing from UK airports”
& for a flight Amex gets the routing info, so not hard at all for them to only pay it out for flights from UK
It probably won’t work, but if you were not going to use the offer otherwise, you could just try it anyway – provided that that GBP price is an accurate reflection of the USD price and doesn’t have a forex fee built in
It probably won’t work, but if you were not going to use the offer otherwise, you could just try it anyway – provided that that GBP price is an accurate reflection of the USD price and doesn’t have a forex fee built in
United are forcing DCC based on the country of your CC now but the rate seems to match the general market/Mastercard rate with no % Charge
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