What's the official name for this
Yesterday purchased some TCON travel on UA; 1 n/s & 2 connecting (conducive to schedule) . something came up on both connects but different airports that I had never seen before.
Exemplary : DCA - IAH - X. There was a change of planes in IAH, same flight number & exact same number of miles if I had flown through ORD, which was my intended routing nevertheless.
I immediately thought of the Delta suit, which I know nothing about other than I heard the gravaman of the suit is that one should get actual flight miles including holding pattern or something ridiculous that I immediately jettisoned as frivolous once I heard it. Then I saw this & I thought that that is patently unfair.
Then on another booking through SFO where I need to go, saw the same thing (change of planes but same FL # & no credit for actual flight miles flown. Is there an official FT name for this?
Sorry about voice to text mistakes.