Originally Posted by
Biggie Fries
Interesting ... not wishing to be argumentative, but I'm not sure I understand ... Are you saying that even though the booking is through Orbitz (or whoever), the credit card charge is to US, and not to Orbitz ?
That's exactly what I'm saying. For example, here are two one way tickets I recently bought through Expedia, you can see they notate Expedia in one place, but the details go back to the individual airlines (doing business as and merchant addresses):
EXPEDIA CORPORATE TRATLANTA GA 01/30/2012 01/30/2012 Mon EXPEDIA CORPORATE TRATLANTA GA
0 Travel Travel -
Airline 186.10
020609 AIRLINE/AIR CARRIER
US AIRWAYS INC.
From : To : Carrier : Class :
KANSAS CITY INTERN
CHARLOTTE USU
DETROIT WAYNE COUNUSU
N/A USU
N/A YY
Ticket Number : 037xxxxxxxxxxx Date of Departure : 0212
Passenger Name : Beckles
Document Type : PASSENGER TICKET
Doing Business As: US AIRWAYS ARC SALES
Merchant Address: 4000 E. SKY HARBOR BLVD.
PHOENIX
AZ
85034
UNITED STATES
Reference Number: 3201xxxxxxxx445294
Category: Travel - Airline Print
EXPEDIA CORPORATE TRATLANTA GA 01/30/2012 01/30/2012 Mon EXPEDIA CORPORATE TRATLANTA GA
0 Travel Travel -
Airline 217.60
020609 AIRLINE/AIR CARRIER
UNITED AIRLINES
From : To : Carrier : Class :
SAGINAW
CHICAGO O'HARE INTUAS
KANSAS CITY INTERNUAS
N/A UAS
N/A YY
Ticket Number : 016xxxxxxxxxxxx Date of Departure : 0213
Passenger Name : Beckles
Document Type : PASSENGER TICKET
Doing Business As: UNITED AIRLINES
Merchant Address: 1200 E ALGONQUIN RD
ELK GROVE VILLAGE
IL
60007
UNITED STATES
Reference Number: 3201xxxxxxxx445293
Dispute/Inquire about this charge
Category: Travel - Airline
If I had used my US card for these purchases (though I did not in this case), I would have gotten double miles for the ticket bought for the US flights but not the one bought for the UA flights.