Originally Posted by
quantumofforce
I had a flight that took 8 months and a few phone calls to aaaaaaeroplan to credit. Apparently aeroplan credited them to my UA FF account instead (I don't have one) and so it had to be recalled before it could be credited to my AC account.
I had a similar tale a few years back. SAA insisted my flights were credited to a different FF number. It took quite a bit of back and forth to get credit. Following year credit came in a number of days or weeks.