Do award miles traveled on UA count towards million miler status?
Jul 19, 2005, 8:38 pm
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Do award miles traveled on UA count towards million miler status?
Do only revenue miles flown on UA metal count towards million mile status or do award miles flown BIS on UA metal also count?
Jul 19, 2005, 8:41 pm
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Originally Posted by osxanalyst
Do only revenue miles flown on UA metal count towards million mile status or do award miles flown BIS on UA metal also count?
Jul 19, 2005, 8:45 pm
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Does ANY airline count award miles traveled towards Million Miler status?
That would be, shall we say, rather unusual. (But, you never know....)
That would be, shall we say, rather unusual. (But, you never know....)
Jul 19, 2005, 8:46 pm
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No, but i wish they did (if paid for with UA miles, of course 
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Jul 19, 2005, 9:05 pm
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I've never run into this because I have always paid for my tickets on UA, never used my miles for an award for me personally, only family and friends. Is there anyone else like that here?
Jul 19, 2005, 9:12 pm
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Originally Posted by osxanalyst
I've never run into this because I have always paid for my tickets on UA, never used my miles for an award for me personally, only family and friends. Is there anyone else like that here?
FlyerTalk has something like 75,000 registered members now.... so there's bound to be others like you here!
Jul 19, 2005, 9:15 pm
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Originally Posted by kluau88
Award miles don't count.
Jul 19, 2005, 9:19 pm
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Originally Posted by i'mlovin'it
They don't even show up on the MP website as you having "flown" the flight.
Jul 19, 2005, 9:45 pm
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Originally Posted by i'mlovin'it
They don't even show up on the MP website as you having "flown" the flight.
Jul 19, 2005, 11:52 pm
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Originally Posted by timmymsmith
In the past I have gotten away with booking award travel on Austrian and then adding my MP# at the Austrian desk to credit for those trips. I'm sure that has gone away if the two have interline e-ticketing.
-UFFA
Jul 20, 2005, 12:15 am
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Although flyers do accidentally get miles for free promotion tickets, award/VDB trips/promo tickets are not supposed to get any miles whatsoever.
Jul 20, 2005, 1:28 am
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Think about it.
If award tickets earned credit toward Million Miler status, by redeeming awards solely on UA, a member of a Star Alliance partner could earn lifetime Premier (1P) status without ever paying UA a penny.
OK. Admittedly, that would be a lot of awards!
But this is one of those "obvious" questions, former errors long ago (pre-1990) about crediting award tickets with mileage credit notwithstanding.
If award tickets earned credit toward Million Miler status, by redeeming awards solely on UA, a member of a Star Alliance partner could earn lifetime Premier (1P) status without ever paying UA a penny.
OK. Admittedly, that would be a lot of awards!
But this is one of those "obvious" questions, former errors long ago (pre-1990) about crediting award tickets with mileage credit notwithstanding.
Jul 20, 2005, 1:37 am
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Originally Posted by SPN Lifer
Think about it.
If award tickets earned credit toward Million Miler status, by redeeming awards solely on UA, a member of a Star Alliance partner could earn lifetime Premier (1P) status without ever paying UA a penny.
If award tickets earned credit toward Million Miler status, by redeeming awards solely on UA, a member of a Star Alliance partner could earn lifetime Premier (1P) status without ever paying UA a penny.
If you had 3 million miles to burn, you could redeem them for 50 NYC-SIN trips, which, at 20k miles a pop, would earn you MM status.
Jul 20, 2005, 7:04 am
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Originally Posted by nerd
I'm thinking about it.
If you had 3 million miles to burn, you could redeem them for 50 NYC-SIN trips, which, at 20k miles a pop, would earn you MM status.
If you had 3 million miles to burn, you could redeem them for 50 NYC-SIN trips, which, at 20k miles a pop, would earn you MM status.
More on topic, does United.com even address Million Mile status? Is there a link?
Jul 20, 2005, 7:34 am
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While not technically a miles award, I flew IAD-MCO-IAD on an ATW promo ticket. I had to pay $14 for the fees, and I got miles plus online booking bonus!
I was quite surprised, as I originally assumed that I wouldn't get miles for that fare code.
But, that was BFT (before Flyer Talk).
I was quite surprised, as I originally assumed that I wouldn't get miles for that fare code.
But, that was BFT (before Flyer Talk).