Hello,

I am looking at booking a mileage run. This run includes an express flight that runs A-B-A but keeps the same flight number.

Will this cause a problem with flight credit? After all, I'm flying on the same flight number on the same day, except two different segments.

Of course, unlike problems with other direct flights, they can't just check me in A-A http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif but has anyone had this situation before? Any problems with credit?

You may have trouble getting the airline to issue you a ticket with two segments showing the same flight number.

I once did that with AA, (SFO-ORD-LON), got them to split the tickets with the same flight number, but then the system put them together prior to my checking in. The Aadvantage desk did manually break them up later for me (it was important since they were running a special promotion just on the ORD-LON flight which would not have been given if I just had a SFO-LON ticket with a connection in ORD).

dg1: I have a similar situation coming up in June/July, when a PIT-STL flight 4009 is also flight 4009 STL-PIT. Unlike you, however, I'm doing the outbound and return on different days. No problems ticketing, or anything else so far for me. For you, I'd imagine even if the mileage isn't properly credited automatically, they can probably do it manually for you later on. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif Good luck.

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Last year, I flew on a LGA-PIT-somewhere flight. I flew standby for an earlier flight that had 1 flight number to my destination city. I had to fly standby to PIT then wait for standby in PIT.

At the end, I got 500 miles for each segment, not the 800 or so miles from LGA-destination city.

They should give you credit for both segments. If they don't you may have a chance to argue.