<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by artiem:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that only seems to come up to 22,536 status miles. That's about a 20% increase over ORD-SIN-HKG-ORD (18,738), but a 250% increase in segments--which I view as a roughly 250% increase in the chance of delayed flights.
[This message has been edited by artiem (edited 07-05-2002).]</font>
By that extension, there's also a 250% increase in the chance of being bumped, or being rerouted to a more direct routing (on UA or another carrier) and still getting the original miles.