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Jan 9, 2018, 5:40 am

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Originally Posted by Exleftseat

Don't shoot me. Quick question. Read the WIKI but I am in between traveling. My niece freaks out because the miles in her account expire in March. So I went to the AA Mall and purchased something.Today she got a message that "you earned your first miles through the .... ). WIKI says purchases will extend the expiration date. She says that miles have been credited but the expiration day has not changed. Is that normal, does it require time until change? Does she worry needlessly?

So the poster [FF1] in this case bought something for another FF [FF2] account? I did not know that FF1 could buy for FF2 [assumption is to pay for FF2 with FF1's credit card].

I presume that FF2 has an Advantage account registered with the advantage e shopping mall and was logged into FF2's eshopping account at the time of purchase.

So this system works?

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