Originally Posted by
econwatch
Was just informed by UA premier telephone agent that a specific application of the March 2015 MP plan changes will affect status achieved through codeshare flights. Not sure if true or not.
My LGA-YYZ UA website bookings for codeshare flights on AC metal will no longer count towards Premier status achieved by segment (flights are too short to achieve status per mileage). The revelation was that spend revenue has to go to UA meaning booking on UA and flying on UA metal. In other words codeshare revenue doesn't end up with UA but with AC therefore my UA bookings for AC metal flights will no longer count. The alternative would be to book and fly UA from EWR-YYZ, an undesirable workaround.
Have read through the threads, UAL website codeshare sections and UA 2015 Revenue based analysis available and can't see anything to corroborate this info.
Any insight on this?
The agent was confused - you have two qualification markers to meet - one is the mileage marker which is not changing from this, or previous years - all flown miles with bonuses where appropriate count towards ELITE status (not redeemable miles, however).
The second marker is your spend - you must spend certain minimums with UA to qualify, and only spend from tickets issued on 016/United ticket stock (regardless of the carrier, codeshare or no codeshare) will count towards this spend.
The AC flight in question WILL count towards Elite miles (depending on the fare basis, but that's another issue), but would NOT count towards PQD spend unless the ticket that flight is flown under is issued by United and the ticket number starts with 016.