<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LHR Tim:
Moral of the story: Get flight numbers before committing to a booking! If they are the same, then book another routing.</font>
This is exactly how I thought things worked. BUT, does anyone have some insight on this? I recently flew SFO-BKK on UA837. My itinerary card shows this as:
Code:
20NOV UA837 SFO-NRT Seat 36A ...
21NOV UA837 NRT-BKK Seat 43A ...
So, this was definitely one flight number. I thought that I was going to have the same issue as described above: only SFO-BKK direct miles posting, rather than SFO-NRT-BKK.
Just prior to booking, I looked up the distances on the Great Circle Mapper; the difference was less than 100 miles, so I decided to forget about working around this. But when the miles posted, I ended up seeing:
Code:
20-Nov-03 UA 0837 K Class SFO to NRT 5124 10248 15372
21-Nov-03 UA 0837 K Class NRT to BKK 2887 5774 8661
So, for the pros: why did my flight credit show up as two separate segments? From the above discussions, it doesn't sound like the plane change triggered this. What about the date change (20-21 Nov)? What about the different seats?
fiat_owner