<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by das:
Just spent 1:10 on the phone with UA pricing a RTW. Can anyone confirm that surface segments (i.e. openings between flights) count towards the mileage limit?
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Just to concur with the others: This has always been the rule. If you go to any site that has the full fare rules for * RTWs (
www.travel.com.au did last time I looked), that one will be there. Sucks somewhat since the demise of AN.
Whose flight number they put on it shouldn't matter ... FWIW, they'll end up as the base flight number of the carrier whose metal it is when they hit your M+ account.
Another option: It's probably cheaper for you to fly out to Australia on one ticket and then do a RTW from here and then fly back to the USA on the original ticket than to start the RTW in the USA. (Done right it'd give you close to 50k status M+ miles too.)