Originally Posted by
sethb
If the airline claims to provide benefit for "lifetime miles" then they're guilty of False Advertising when they claim that some miles the passenger flew during his lifetime "don't count".
They're entitled to change the rules at will. They're not entitled to lie about them.
The rules didn't change
Lifetime miles lasted for the lifetime of the US Dividend Miles Programme
The Programme has ended
USDM no longer exists
No one has lifetine niles in the non existent scheme
There is nothing that stated that , should the scheme end, that another scheme would take it on.