As an update from my experiences with Varig for crediting miles (and crediting for the 55,555 promo):

I clocked up a number of flights to Varig last year, including 5 different carriers for the *A 5th anniversery promo.

My crediting has been retrospective / retroactive as i carefully evaluated which program crediting would be most applicable based on my *A flights over the 2nd half of last calendar year. Hence, I did not provide my RG number during the flights.

Anyhow, I faxed in my boarding passes and tickets, to which they wrote back to me asking for originals. I then posted copies of my boarding passes and tickets to the Brazil office, they credited 2 of my UA flights, none others.

They then emailed me from Brazil to advise they wanted the originals.

Following the advice, I sent the original boarding passes by international registered post to the New York office, with receipted reply. To date, I am still yet to have any of the flights credit, despite a number of emails to them, with a confirmation or receipt, but nothing else.

Pretty poor form, I do hope I get at least the flights credited before they have any more serious (financial) difficulties as reported. I now, no longer even have my original boarding passes..... ahhhh well....

[This message has been edited by kawoh (edited 02-13-2003).]