Originally Posted by
GundamWing01
thank you for looking that up. appreciate it. i didnt think to use the way back machine to verify changes in T&Cs. but sounds like this happened very recently and silently. nice to see a positive change. i hope all airlines and hotels adopts this, but 24 mo was already solid. the worst is when there are hard deadlines after earned vs simple activity to extend.
Just booked a ticket for a relative today who (AFAIK) doesn’t have an AS account. I didn’t bother creating one for her, but might do that now. I don’t know if it will ever accrue enough miles for an award, but since I am usually paying for the occasional travel, I will just take on the responsibility of managing it. Maybe I’ll get a 5k award mile award out of it in five years
