The Chase Ritz-Carlton card offers a $300 travel credit that can be used for airline incidentals per calendar year. Like the American Express travel credits this calendar year is based on a true calendar year (e.g January 1st – December 1st) rather than a statement calendar year (e.g January statement – December statement, like the Chase Sapphire Reserve & Citi Prestige).
This means that your purchase must POST to your account before December 31st to be eligible. Also keep in mind that you need to call the number on the back of your card to get eligible purchases reimbursed, this must be done within 4 billing cycles to be eligible.
The following purchases officially count:
Only the following types of non-ticket purchases qualify for this offer: airline lounge day pass, or towards a yearly lounge membership of your choice; airline seat upgrades; airline baggage fees; in-flight Internet/entertainment; in-flight meals
We’ve tried to keep the following page updated with what is still working/not working. I’d recommend reading that in full and also sharing your data points in the comments to make it a more useful resource for everybody.
As always, if you have any questions about this credit please let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer them for you. You can view other posts in this series:
Worked for 4 $75 credits on AA – I secure messaged Chase through the portal and the credits posted once the transactions posted
Were they e-gift cards or actual gift cards? And how long did u wait, if at all, to do the transitions? Did you buy the gift cards right after each other? Thanks
Called about an $150 southwest gift card a few weeks ago and received letter from JP Morgan that they tried to contact me (to my knowledge they did not). Called them back and they knew it was a gift card and could not use the travel fee for it. Used the travel credit last year on $150 gift cards no problem.
Did you buy the giftcard from Southwest.com?
Are SW gift cards still working? Need to spend $175 still on my card.
I just bought a $100 SW gift card today, will report back when I call in and request credit.
Did yours work?
Did the credit work for the southwest gift card?
Were you able to get it reimbursed?
Alaska airlines gift cards DO NOT WORK! They show on your statement as Alaska Air gift cert.
FYI, Delta GC’s are showing up Delta Gift Card on my chase statement. Pretty sure that’s not going to get credited. Thanks Delta!
Does the claims needs to be posted before 12/31 or It doesn’t matter as long as the expense was made before 12/31?
How do Visa Infinite flight purchases post?
Trying to claim the flight purchases using the $300 travel credit as well as getting the Visa Infinite $100 discount. Thanks!
I’ve had a $150 SW gift card (bought on southwest.com) credited. Told them it was luggage fees. No questions asked. This was last week
Thanks, added it to our page.
I can verify this as well. Bought a $150 SW gift card (online) on December 13. Called today and told them it was luggage fees – no questions asked and the reimbursement was granted. As a note, I requested this reimbursement with two other Southwest reimbursements (for early boarding) and a Jetblue reimbursement (for an even more legroom seat). Figured it couldn’t hurt to ask for the gift card reimbursement with other transactions.
does sw show as gift cards on the transaction history and the csr not notice it, or does it show generically. same question for AA as thinking of doing both as just got card
It doesn’t show for my CSR. I don’t see any reason why it would show for the Ritz Carlton card.
Secure Messages work to get the credits as well in lieu of calling.
Yeah, I always SM, saves a lot of time, and they generally do it within 24 hours.
Has anyone had experience getting united Economy Plus seating credited? I’m thinking of getting an economy plus subscription for the family ($900) and to me that would count as “Seat Upgrades”. Anyone?