Typically, the airlines will transfer the account balance of a deceased spouse to the account of the remaining legal spouse, with the verification of a death certificate.
Maybe in the USA Punki, but this is the Wild West "down under"!
Quite a fuss recently about the Qantas plan. If you pass away from too much shopping etc, Joe does not get the points if he ever tells QF to amend their records. Mad but true. They simply confiscate the miles -- program rules.
Joe uses your account and your pin while you are "demised" is OK though to chew into those half million Hilton points!
I feel it is absurd for a surviving partner who did the correct thing and advised QF to please stop mailing to a deceased spouse that they close the account.
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~ Glen ~