coccobill352

Dear all, I have a question, if I take a LH flight operated by OS (both Star Alliance) will I get UA miles? And what if the flight is operated by Luxair?

aacharya

If you book on an 016 ticket, you will get PQMs, RDMS, and PQDS in accordance with the UA policy and the fare class as determined by the carrier (not necessarily the fare class booked on UA). Some fare classes will earn 0% PQMs/PQDS. But will always earn RDMs.

You will not earn PQM or PQDs on LuxAir.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/lufth...ow-luxair.html

Kray

I was under the impression as long as you booked with united you would get the PQM and PQD. I have booked a trip to Europe this summer though United and my flight there is UA but my flight home is Lufthansa (both tickets start 016). In the email summary I got it said I would receive PQM, PQS or PQD for the UA flight but not from the lufthansa flight. I called and they told me it was because the fare class is too low for the Lufthansa flight.

I'm hoping there is still some way to secure the credit for the flight. I wasn't 100% sure on how to get a higher fare bucket with lufthansa (I'm pretty new to this game), but googling around at flights and for example looking at a one way one that same flight it seemed like it'd be cheaper to do a mileage run later in the year to secure silver then to cough up the difference for that flight. I still have some hope after the flight I can try entering the ticket on the website or making some phone calls to get the credit, as it as a trans-Atlantic flight booked through UA.

aacharya

As long as it is on a 016 ticket (United booking), you will earn RDMs. PQDs and PQMs are still based on the operating carrier and fare class, as I just noted above, and as noted in the March 1st changes to RDM earnings.

Kacee

Slight correction, if it's not an earning fare class (i.e., K), you will not earn anything.

The hidden fine print excluding RDM accrual for nonearning fare classes: