Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
and why do you think this will happen? Anything to based the question on?
all evidence suggest UA handles this as separate segments -- besides the 2 BPs, and the accumulated mileage, there is another thing to consider is prior to day of travel, direct flights require both segments to clear for upgrades but day of travel either segment can clear separately. So day of travel the system see a direct flight as two separate segments.
Without knowing how the systems work, I don't know either way for sure. If you have seen evidences that support what you say, then that must be it.
I have the assumption that PNR segments correspond to FFP segments. Obviously there is some kind of parent-child segment structure in the reservation/DCS side to support multi-leg single flight number flights. I just don't know how they get rolled back into the FFP system for crediting if the OP only does 1 leg of the flight and it does not match the ticket and PNR.
On the system I know, the DCS generates a file for the FFP when the flight is closed. Unfortunately, that is all I know and it is not UA's system.
In this case, would FastAir generate the file (or the equivalent) for MSY-SFO or MSY-SFO+MSY-LAX when the flight is closed at MSY? To me, the MSY-LAX file should not be generated until SFO departure and the OP would not be in the MSY-SFO file.