{"id":219,"date":"2020-12-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:53:39","slug":"annual-airline-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/annual-airline-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Airline Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year is fast approaching. If you have a premium travel credit card that reimburses for travel expenses, make sure you\u2019ve used them all. For Chase this is trivially easy because they work for travel, gas, and groceries.<\/p>\n<p>For American Express, let\u2019s just say you\u2019ve got your work cut out for you, though it\u2019s easier during COVID since most airlines will convert small purchases to travel bank funds. For reference, check the relevant Flyertalk thread for the airline you\u2019ve selected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/2002976-airline-fee-250-200-100-reimbursement-reports-aa-only-2020-a.html\">American<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/1300459-airline-fee-250-200-100-reimbursement-reports-only-2011-2019-a.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/2002965-airline-fee-250-200-100-reimbursement-reports-dl-only-2020-a.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/1300475-airline-fee-250-200-100-reimbursement-reports-b6-only-jetblue.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JetBlue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/2002921-airline-fee-250-200-100-reimbursement-reports-wn-southwest-only-2020-a.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/2002996-airline-fee-200-100-reimbursement-reports-ua-only-2020-a.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying this, but United might be the easiest way to do this with direct funding of their TravelBank. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Woman playing whack-a-mole arcade cabinet game.\" class=\"wp-image-220\" height=\"424\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/640px-Whackamole.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/640px-Whackamole.jpg 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/640px-Whackamole-300x199.jpg 300w\" width=\"640\"\/><figcaption>AmEx RAT team closing loopholes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year is fast approaching. If you have a premium travel credit card that reimburses for travel expenses, make sure you\u2019ve used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}