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Aug 22, 2011 | 10:37 am

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el_tigre

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Originally Posted by ChinaShrek

I am also concerned about how they will calculate revenue. I usually buy a lot of multi-segement, multi-airline tickets issued by other *alliance carriers. For example, if I buy a LH issued ticket and the outbound is on LH while the return is on UACO, how much value will UACO attach to the return flight? (Perhaps only one segment out of 4 on a ticket.) And, will we know this amount in advance of booking? I suspect that UACO may only count revenue from UACO issued tickets.

I thought about this too, in particular with LH. Because of UA's TATL revenue sharing deal with LH (that's still is going on, right?), it could make sense that those segments would count as revenue towards elite status as well.