Originally Posted by Skillet
It seems every since the Aug typhoon, my miles don't automatically post anymore. I'm sure that the typhoon is an unrelated item, it's just the significant event in my memory.
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Can I submit for mileage credit within a week of my flight or do I have to wait for 6 weeks as suggest by the website?
My miles also stopped posting automatically a couple of months ago. I found that the reason is that my tickets and my MPC account don't show exactly the same names: my MPC account shows my first name in full, and my tickets just show a first initial. MPC have told me that there needs to be a complete match, and that without this points will not credit. There has apparently been a change to their system recently which causes this - I never had this problem earlier.
You certainly don't need to wait for 6 weeks to submit a mileage credit. The minimum period before the web-site will allow you to submit a credit is, I think, 7 days. My online credit requests have all been rejected online after a few days, but as soon as this appears, I have called up MPC, explained the situation, and they have corrected it whilst I was on the phone.