Originally Posted by
travelinfoo
You have to earn points. Having the AMEX card and not using it is not an active card. Does your wife use her card? If not, she has been lucky that her points are not gone, yet.
The #9 indicates that Hhonors points can be earned elsewhere besides AMEX to keep the points alive.
I guess she's been very lucky. Just checked her account more carefully, until spring of this year, her account had no activity at all for about 10 years.