Ok so a little snag- and please excuse my ignorance on this. I was just browsing the united site for fares and noticed that when booking an Air Canada flight through united, you get miles but they do not count toward PQMs. With Aeroplan, no matter what Star Alliance partner you fly, the miles you earn count toward status miles in the AC program.

This could be a problem as I have qualified for Elite for next year and would definitely want to take some AC flights so I can use my eUpgrades but I would not want to if I cannot give them a new United number and collect PQMs.

Is this really the case or am I missing something? I would be hard pressed to not want to earn PQMs on my AC flights as they would be longer routes as I would want to maximize my eUpgrade credits.

Is this the same with US airways?