United Airlines is offering a bonus when you pay now for future travel, but is it worth it? This is the third time that United is offering a promotion on funding your TravelBank since the start of the pandemic. United Airlines is offering up to a 10% bonus when you add funds to your TravelBank…
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Lucky do you know if the travel bank balance and/or bonuses can be used for someone else?
Ben - Just as a reminder, TravelBank funding triggers AMEX Airline Fee Credit, so if you have unused credits from any AMEX cards (and chose United as your airline at the beginning of the year), then now would be a good time to use those funds. I used my AMEX Gold card last week to fund TravelBank and received my credit in 2 days after transaction posted.
Not worth it. United makes it hard to use TravelBank and, you can only use it on UA metal, no codeshares. From United.com, "TravelBank Cash is valid for air travel purchases on United and United Express® flights and as otherwise permitted by United. After a TravelBank Award is issued, a service charge may be imposed for each change or cancellation requested by the Member."
this isnt that interesting but if Dhiraj is right (which Flyertalk seems to confirm) than I am very interested in using amex credits that are about to expire.
I have Delta and American selected on my two Amex cards so not sure if the change would kick in before the promotion ends but even without the promotion I'd rather have $300 in United credit than waste my travel fee credits.
Dhiraj I was thinking the same thing! I also have heard reports of cases where Amex has been willing to change airlines much later than typical, including a report of September. I'm going to see about shifting now.
Dhiraj & Lucky, I was just able to successfully convert my Amex account (1 Amex Business Platinum with no usage of the airline credit yet) and my dad's accounts (1 Amex Platinum w partial usage & 1 Amex gold w/ no fee credit usage) to have a fee credit w/ United!
How do you add funds to your travel bank account? Everything on United says that you can no longer add funds?