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Old Nov 24, 2012 | 7:49 am
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Originally Posted by JD1DC
I appreciate all of your comments and understand the rationale to reward UA Mileage Plus fliers for flying UA "metal" - but come on now, if they want us to keep flying UA because they are "great" and they have the best "partner" airlines? Then they should reward for that...otherwise I will book the legs they do not and will not fly (like to Addis Ababa or Dakar or Jo'burg that are ONLY flown by partners!)...
They do reward you for flying partners: you earn RDM and PQM, you get *A benefits on those airlines (extra bags, lounge access, earlier boarding, etc.).

They're not going to treat partner flights identically to their own metal, though.
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