US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Mileage credit for Comp ticket?

My wife was granted a free (comp) ticket for her troubles with delays last year at LGA. This trip was four segments long and was supposed to propel her to Silver Preferred status this year. To our surprise, only one of her segments were posted. When we e-mailed this news to USAirways, we got no response. After calling the service center, we were told that we were not eligible for credit. So, what is the deal? Are these tickets eligible for mileage credit? I suppose that we could call back and plead with the rep about the fact that my wife is soooo close to preferred status that we may consider switching our flying elsewhere. Any thoughts?

Free tickets do not accumulate mileage or count as segments. While I've never used one myself I have never heard of them bending this rule. As per trying to beg into Silver Preferred, it doesn't hurt to ask, I guess. Good luck!

Originally posted by jms8090:
My wife was granted a free (comp) ticket for her troubles with delays last year at LGA. This trip was four segments long and was supposed to propel her to Silver Preferred status this year. To our surprise, only one of her segments were posted. When we e-mailed this news to USAirways, we got no response. After calling the service center, we were told that we were not eligible for credit. So, what is the deal? Are these tickets eligible for mileage credit? I suppose that we could call back and plead with the rep about the fact that my wife is soooo close to preferred status that we may consider switching our flying elsewhere. Any thoughts?

Any free ticket should not be earning miles. US FF award tickets, RTFCs, ER-81s are all free tickets. None of them earn miles. You certainly can have your FF account number attached to the ticket, but its there if you want to check up on the reservation subsequent to making the reservation or for getting preferred seats.

One way to really prove this is to look at the bottom of your boarding pass stub. Revenue tickets will always show your FF number like "DM/192K4N2". A free ticket will say DM/FQTR.

I'm very suprised that your wife even got credit for that one segment. Be lucky, because she should not have.

As to being Preferred, I'm not sure if US will care - especially if they're going to be swallowed by UA. One more MP is one more in a pool of about 150,000.

Thank you for the heads up. The tickets bear the DM/fqtr on them. Oh well, we tried. As far as the 150,000 other MP members, it's not over 'til it's over in regard to the merger.

Sorry that she won't be getting miles, but US's rationale is probably that one should only earn miles for trips that one has paid for. If one earned miles on free trips, then the value of a free trip is even higher than it would be as that 20,000 mile trip from LGA to LAX (which earns about 5800 miles through PHL) would cost you 14,200 miles in reality.

I've also tried to do the same thing. My first year out of college, I hit a VERY hot streak of bumping off flights. Did it three times during one trip and once on another trip. So, with those miles, I would have essentially become very close to preferred for having to pay for ONE paid flight and using the theoretical miles for the other four free flights.