Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
You only get miles if your boarding pass is scanned or entered at the gate as the last step of the boarding process. At that point, if you somehow managed to avoid boarding without it being noticed by the gate agent, it would most likely be caught when they did the passenger count before departure.
No. That's not the question.
My question is, e.g., both EWR-ORD and ORD-SFO flight will have only one flight number, let's say UA1234. If you take the flight you will only be awarded for EWR-SFO mile. However you can get on EWR-ORD and get off at ORD without taking ORD-SFO. What will happen now?