Originally Posted by EXLEFTSEAT

If UA drops E+ I consider to move a lot of my travel out of NRT to TG. Surprisingly their website states that UA booking classes G/ L/ S/ T/ W do not earn any miles on the Orchid program. I am not so familiar with all these booking classes, but I do know that in order to apply a SWU one needs to book at least into W and those fares are always/mostly higher than "regular" fares. So I am a bit surprised. Are there "different" W fares for International and/or domestic? I don't want to look at a big fat "0" when we fly the occasional trip to the U.S. and want to apply SWUs.