Originally Posted by flying chicken
Friends,
My father recently passed away and was also a Road Warrier, a PM for many years, he was less than 100K from MM but had recently dropped down to SM due to less travel. He has around 500K in his account and I need to know the best way to manage them for my Mom.
Thanks for any insight.
Sympathies indeed.
As I understand it, this is the one and only way that miles can be transferred between accounts. So, if your mother doesn't have an account she can get one and transferred. Or transferred to you to book for her. However, the easiest way is that if you have the PIN number just to let it remain active and book the travel out of that account. I wouldn't have any ethical issues with it and I doubt there are any legal ones (unless it would be a disputed estate which I am not getting those feelings from you) but I am not an attorney.
The leaving them alone method might be better. I don't think we have ever confirmed this but availability might be better for MM status, I suspect if they were transferred, it would lose that distinction.