Originally Posted by
Agrolingua
I recently made a written (snailmail) request for miles on a flight my wife and I each made on an Aegean flight in Sept. It was denied. They stated. "The flight on Agean (sic) is a codeshare flight. That flight is operated by Olympic Air. They are a codeshare with Agean. Olympic Air is not a partner so no credit will be on that flight." My booking was Aegean 7066, operated by Olympic Airlines.
From my understanding Olympic is a subsidiary of Aegean. I have read through the thread and see that this a cloudy area. Plus, the number of miles I am dealing with is pretty minimal. But, I am not quite ready to let this good. Does anyone have a suggestion of what I might write to argue this a bit further with United?
I'm afraid you really have no-where to go on this - OA & A3 are legally separate companies so far as aviation is concerned, in that they hold individual AOCs. OA is not a member of *A, and the metal counts on Star, so there is definitely no credit due. Fortunately, as you identify, pretty much all OA flights are short so we're never talking about a loss of any significance.
This is not a unique situation within Star - SQ owns Silkair and LH owns Germanwings, and you can buy flights with SQ/LH numbers on those airlines, but they will not credit to anything other than KrisFlyer/Miles & More.