Originally Posted by
Guy Betsy
The thing here is that H class on UA does not mean it will be H class on LX. More than likely it was on a lower booking class, eg V which would probably be why you only earned 0.5 miles. You get the miles earned on the operating carrier... not the carrier which you booked your flight on. Next time check with LX as to what booking class you are booked in. The check in agent may tell you.
That could well be what happened. However, BD gave me the miles when I asked; they could have been doing me a favo(u)r, but I tend to doubt it. Also, there is AFAIK no way whatsoever to find out what class LX will ultimately book you into when you buy a ticket; it seems patently unfair to base credit on something you can't possibly know. (Asking the check-in agent might work, but at that point it's too late to do anything about it if you don't like the answer. Asking UA probably won't work; in my experience it's not something their phone agents would know. Online it's definitely not possible, at least through standard passenger-oriented booking sites.)