Retention of boarding passes/travel documents
 

How long do you retain your boarding passes and other documents, hotel bills, etc? Until posted? Until posted + 3 months? .....

Thanks,

Gwen

Boarding passes usually end up in the trash on the plane. Hotel receipts go in my folder for submission with my expenses, or which I keep a copy, so I guess those I keep for a long time.

I don't think I've ever had credit not post and it's not worth the hassle, to me, to keep and track all of those.

The only one I've ever kept was my wife's Shanghai-SFO United BP that left Nov 1, crossed the date line, and landed early on Nov 1 again, the day US and UA started their FF cross-earning agreement. They had no clue in China on how to enter her DM number, so I kept the BP, knowing it would need to be submitted for 4K+ miles.

I keep them until miles post. "Partner" flights are notorious for not posting, especially when check-in is handled by a third party (internationally).

Boarding passes: forever
Miles statements: forever
Hotel receipts and everything else: until cc statement and miles post.

I have kept all my Boarding Passes, from day one of my flying as a kid.

Could practically wallpaper a house I have so many.

But I've noticed a problem recently. Whatever printing method most of the airlines are using these days (thermal?)...the ink on the darn things is starting to dissappear as time goes by! Fading away to nothing!

I do the same! As for the rest, I just keep them until the miles post.


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Until they are posted.

Receipts & Boarding Passes for six years until the chance of IRS audit is gone. For years I used to file everything neatly, but about 15 years ago I quit that timewaster and now just put rubberbands around the ticket jackets and dump them in a plastic bag on their way to the dumpster six years later.
Statements are all cleaned out at the end of each year.

Three years. When what would be year four is over, I dump the oldest batch. Just use a rubber band (gumband in PIT) around jackets to keep each year's accumulation together.

'Til they post.

til they post or i find them in a stack of stuff later. i file by piles & moints.

Til they post. I've had quite a few partner trips over the years, that failed to get posted.

Certainly until the points post after that it is determined by how long and persistant the nagging is. If I can ignore it I do.

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"A day without Points/Miles is like a day without SUNSHINE"

Funny, my kids are always missing their points. I have had to track down missing miles at least three times.

Until the miles post, then discard. Hardly worth keeping...not quite the type of thing that would gain value with time. I rahter keep pictures for the memories.