Originally Posted by dvs7310

Unfortunately if you wanted the miles on another Skyteam carrier for that flight then you would have needed to fly that segment on DL.

I've seen this come up in the *A forum recently too where someone was arriving on ET then using VX instead of UA. I'm pretty perplexed as to why people who care about miles would do this when the have an alliance carrier flying the same route with higher frequency ... routing rules pretty much always allow the alliance partner, so is it an availability issue or do people just like VX that much better? (I've never flown VX due to the miles and status benefits issue so have no idea how their service is)