So this is an exciting video and it's very also interesting. So for you that have the amex platinum card, we all know a few years back what we used to do with the 200 airline credit. We would book a flight. Sorry, we buy gift cards, buy gift cards for different airlines like american uh southwest and then at a later date.

We could use that gift card to buy flights um. So that's what we used to do and then there was a lot of a lot of cutoffs with um how americans started coding um their flights, so that so the airline credit wasn't triggered anymore. So it stopped then recently there was other ways to kind of work around it with other airlines. America wasn't one of the ones that was a thing and then that got shut down.

But now look at my american express statement and i see different. So, let's go right into this video. If you people do not know me welcome. My name is walter.

This is the credit card master channel, where i talk about travel, credit uh how to maintain, build and rebuild credit all right. So that's interesting to you make sure you subscribe also make sure you like the video and share it. This is a very interesting video, so definitely like the video, but most definitely share share, share share. So i'm looking at my american express app right now and i'll show you a screenshot in a quick second, just, listen, real quick! So i brought two one-way flights on american airlines from philly.

Um haven't gone there yet, but for the future uh a two and fro uh to philly and back to philly, okay, and they were the flight. They were cheap because when you book well right now, flights are really cheap anyway, due to the current circumstances, most of them, but this was really cheap, especially for american airlines. The flight was like a spear airline type of a price, so the flight was only 42.40 42.40. The first one i did was on february 3rd for 42.40 and i'll put the screenshot right here for you guys so 42.40 and then and i didn't check - i mean i checked my statement, but i wasn't looking for any reimbursement because i don't care it's just a 43 dollar flight - who cares? I mean it's 43 bucks um, so i go through my stuff now and i see on february 3rd, i made the purchase well.

I posted to my account on february 3rd, probably made it a couple days before that and then on february 5th. Well, here comes a amex airline fee reimbursement boom right there i'll show you so okay. Maybe it was an issue, don't know, then i made another flight um, two back to philly um from my destination and it was the same price which was pretty good, so another 42.40 um - and this was done on february, 8th and i'll - put the screenshot right there. So february 8th, another 42 and 40 cents to buy um and then february 10th, two days later, another 42.40 amex airline fee reimbursement.

Now i was like okay, because i was trying to think what did i because i was trying to figure out like i didn't pay for a 42.40 seat um the seat like sometimes i do basic. I do basically economy most of the time. I don't care where i'm sitting um. It is what it is, we're all going to sing same place.

If i'm trying to just be achieving on a budget. I don't care i'll. Let you pick a formula when i check in i didn't spend 42 dollars on a um seat upgrade i never would spend 40 hours on a cd upgrade, i'm going to the same place. The person is in that seat, we're going to the same place.

We landed at the same time, so i don't care unless it's like a really boozy luxurious trip, then i might do some other upgrades, but i don't care so okay and then i also noticed um. I did do a seat upgrade um, because i knew i was getting reimbursed um for like 19 bucks or whatever, but it was 19 bucks and it took me from all the way in the back. I hate going on. All of i hate being all the way in the back of the plane, so i kind of put me like into the middle.

I just hate being all the way in the back. It's really tight back there when you get really it was like. I was on the last row, so i'm like nah, i'm going to the at least the middle, so i did spend 19 bucks and i got reimbursed for that too. I bought that on february 6th and i got reimbursed for that too.

So they reimbursed me all of that um, so they reinvert their reimbursement pretty much for me. They reimbursed my seat upgrade for like 19 bucks, because i don't again most of the time i don't care, but if i'm all way in the back, then i'm not doing it, and then they reimburse me for my flights. This is not supposed to happen. Apparently this was supposed to be shut down.

I don't know what happened on my account. I don't know what happened on american airlines website, but somehow some way it got triggered and i got my money. I got my money back, which i'm not complaining. Um, that's about.

100, a little bit over 100. So now i got to just kind of keep caution of that that i may be getting reimbursements on america airlines now when i buy flights um now i will say this guys use your discretion. This is not me telling you to go ahead and spend a 200 um book a 200 flight with an american and expect uh the reimbursement to be back. I don't know why it happened.

I just really wanted to kind of share my uh experience with you guys and see if you guys are having this thing too this year in 2021, the airline is american airlines, not delta, not southwest nigel blue. This is american by the way, if you didn't hear it at first and uh yeah. I just wanted to really share that experience with you guys, because i'm like hold on this is not supposed to happen um. This is supposed to be shut down and i thought it was shut down, but then maybe it's because of how small it was.

Maybe it's a small amount, i don't know, or we really don't know we really won't know, but i won't complain. I won't make too much of a um it's as i'm. Not it's, i'm not! It's not inconvenience at all i'll. Take the hundred bucks and go do something else with it um.

So you guys when you want to try it out, go ahead. I would probably say maybe stay under 50 bucks um. But if you are, if you got some brave souls out there and you want to be featured on my channel if we got a brave soul out there and you want to be featured on my channel i'll, put you on my channel um, screenshot or whatever, and I will show people in a future video, like hey. This person decided to be brave and take a sacrifice for all of us and as of right now in america, airlines they spent 100 200 and they got it reimbursed.

If you are somebody that is brave enough to do that, you're more than welcome and i'll be happy to feed you on the show. So let me know i will definitely feature you in a future video. That's the video for today. What do you guys think and have you guys experienced this yourself again, make sure you're sharing this to people? If you guys are into any credit card groups on facebook whatsapp, you got any favorite youtubers that do share it all share them.

Share them share, share, share them and uh for my youtubers out there that do the same thing i do talk about. You know credit and travel. What do you think about this guys, um, guys and gals, because, like i said we weren't supposed to have this? This was supposed to be shut down and apparently, there's still some kind of loopholes, and i did this unexpectedly. This is an unexpected win for me.

I did not do this on uh it's only. It was only a 43 flight, i'm not tripping over it. So i really wouldn't do that: i'm not really trying to risk any issues with amex. So if you guys liked the video thumbs up subscribe, make sure you share and it's american express man, i love amex um.

They are having some really really great offers right now, as far as sign up bonuses um, especially with the amx platinum kind of love it so click the link down below if you're interested in applying it would support the channel, and it would also support you with An increased sound bonus, the link will be down below it'll. Also be my pinned comment as well. Just in case you can't find it. You guys have a good day, stay safe and be well.

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