Originally Posted by
Monk
Appreciate your point. What we did here has nothing to do with status, and the US account has no travel on it at all, only the chase miles.
We originally applied for the card with the UK BAEC number, not aware that the programs are separate across the pond. Chase told us the points had posted into outer space, and the only way around this would be to have a US account, at which point we set up a new account, fearing we'd lose the 50k miles that we'd already triggered.
So - just to be clear we didn't set out at the start to fool anyone, and if for example this had been AMEX MR points we would not be having this issue.
AMEX MR and Chase BA cards are different things. One is tied to BA, the other is not.
The point here is that the Chase offer is only open to US residents. Your household account makes you UK resident. If BA were to merge the accounts, then presumably it would void the Chase credit card as you no longer have a US address.
I suspect there is a high risk that BA will simply void the second account and cancel the miles, since you are not permitted two accounts and therefore cannot comply with the terms of the offer.
After all, there are often some great offers for exclusively members in Europe, UK, US, Canada etc. Why don't I get four accounts to take advantage of the offers then change the BAEC number before the flight to my main account for avios and TP accrual purposes?
I think you may be out of luck on this one.