Originally posted by elCheapoDeluxe:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Does UA do like some airlines and give you mileage credit for DEN-NRT even though you flew DEN-SEA-NRT as a one-stop direct flight (same flight number)? If so, there'd be your reason - you're getting more miles out of the equation than what they "say" you should.</font>
As our friend
UnitedSkies has explained,
yes, indeed! I thought that was a fairly standard industry practice, isn't it?
I personally lost 790 miles in Oct 02 taking UA 837 "direct" IAD-SFO-NRT that I was unable to book online any other way. (And then I never got my 1000 mile online booking bonus, despite promises from the 1P desk.)
That's just one more
trick one has to be mindful of. Don't get fooled again!