Originally Posted by Happy

Payment has NOTHING to do with miles posting.

Miles earned on a statement would be posted within 2 business days to the AA account barring any glitches / delays in the "verifying" process.

In light of the above, hope your 2nd and 3rd card have DIFFERENT statement closing date, else you might have a heck of time get both posted correctly as AA system may reject the 2nd bonus if it is sent on the same day as the 1st one (from the 2nd card). This has happened in the past, and has since taught people to NOT make both cards earning bonus on the same statement date... And that was long before there were this 18 months restriction to earn repeat bonus...