Originally Posted by
Jailer
Recently, I ordered a M/C for my 17 year old daughter and hung it on to her Alaska account, in order to keep her miles active.
Subsequently, my M/C Idines were showing up on her account. I did not notice that her credit card account # is the same as mine (not so for Amex, btw), and that by adding her card, Idine automatically disabled my M/C card with the same number. Frankly, I’m surprised that I didn’t get a, “this card is already registered on a different program” kind of message.
OK, it does sound like there was a change in implementation. Before, one used to get a cryptic (read: meaningless) error message, as per my example above. Now, the system just automatically un-registers the card from one program and re-registers it to the other.
Perhaps the cryptic error message was actually better!
