Buy miles and get cashback on discover card?

right now discover has 5% cash back going on from mar1 - mar 31 and any purchases for airline tickets, cruises etc will qualify. I am planning on buying some miles on Delta for my ticket purchase? does any one know if this might "qualify" for the cash back as IAm not buying a ticket? even though Iam buying miles it might post as a purchase on Delta.com






Answer :
I'm sorry, but it won't. The purchase has to be specifically for airline ticket(s) which include (a) corresponding ticket number(s). Airlines automatically furnish the ticket number electronically with the purchase to the credit card companies as part of the transactional data.

Any non-ticket purchase, including any penalties or change fees will be treated as any other purchase. The only exception would be in the case of an increase in actual airfare for which you should still receive the additional 5% bonus on the difference as, from both the airline and credit card processors' perspective, a new ticket number is generated with the original ticket (and ticket number) being applied as partial form of payment.

Best of luck. I hope this helps.