Had a message from MBNA yesterday. It seems they were doing some auditing and they noticed that they didn't charge me for an airline ticket back in November of 2005. I pulled out the old statement and sure enough, it wasn't on there. The statement was sufficiently large that month so I didn't notice it at the time. They are now going to run the $575 charge through which I understand but find very annoying. Very easily could have gone the other way - any guesses as to their "audit" catching that kind of mistake? What if I caught a false charge 10 months after the fact - do you think they would be so accomodating in refunding my money? Just more reasons I guess why I should reconcile my statements when I get them.

The situation happened because one of the tickets was paid for with Worldpoints (yes, it actually worked and wasn't that bad of a deal!) and the other was to be charged to the card.