What is your threshold before complaining about unposted miles?
 

Realizing that a couple of hundred AA miles from a Millennium Hotel stay haven’t, and may not, hit my account, and realizing that I wasn’t going to trouble over it, I wondered what the general custom and practice was. As for me:

Fewer than five hundred, I ignore it.

Over a thousand, I’m all over it.

Between is situational, I’m faxing documentation if I particularly need the miles, or if I have some extra free time, or if I feel that the program in question is especially MCI-ish in their attempts to weasel.

1000 or more and I am on the phone.
-RKG

Curious....since the new AA, I am not gettin miles posted. Through Avis, or Starwood, or Ididne. It seems to be a big VOID.....and I cannot seem to be accepted for an opinionplace survey. What gives????

Thanks for reminding me. Avis owes me over 20K miles.

I chase 'em all. Every last inch.

Depends on how close to requalification....

I (my Excel flile) doesn't forget 'them'.

All of those => 500 (bonus miles only) credits (hotels, rental cars, etc), if I can't claim them online, I only start claiming about 5 months afterwards (sending in all open credits to the ff-airline-programm at once).

Everything regarding status miles is claimed without delay (about one week after the flight).

The miles I most often have to go chasing are the status miles from my originally booked airline, when I am involuntarily transferred to another airline.

This usually happens to me on my SEA/PDX trips where I am from time to time switched from UA to AS or from AS to UA. The trip itself is only 129 miles and takes only 35 minutes from take off to landing, but hey, it is 500 status miles each way and it only takes a phone call to get them.

I love miles. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Punki, I'm with you! However, thanks to advice on this site I am much better about keeping track of such!

Howdy folks,

For my elite status miles on AA, 500 or more that are two weeks late in posting and I'm on the phone, so far that has always resulted in immediate posting.

For idine miles, I give it 3 months to post and so far, everything has always posted.

For Avis, I wait 2 months to see them post (miles into AA).

For everything else, I wait a month after I expect them to post and call.

So far I've been lucky, almost all my miles have posted without intervention from me.

Keep the faith,

Pakse

First let me agree with Rudi, if it's status miles, I chase them all. For the rest, it depends how many versus how difficult the process is. If it's online, anything over 50 miles ($1) is worth going after. My threshold is higher if I have to remember to dig out receipts, drag them to the office, type up a letter and run it all through the fax.

I look to see if my miles have posted the next day on the web. If they aren't there within 48 hours, then I'm on the phone.

It takes the hotel/car rental almost one month after the date to post. But I do keep track of all of them. I earned them so they will be placed into the account.

I chase every single airline (elite qualification) mile but let hotel and rental car miles slide everyone once in a while.

I am missing two partner stays from GDL, I have written and haven't even received the courtesy of denying the request.

Needed the miles to rescuw orphan miles

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