Hey all, long time reader, novice poster.


Firstly I would like to thank you for your time in reading this post.


I'll get straight down to business.


I signed up for UA Mileage Plus earlier this year. I did it because I booked a flight from ORD - NRT for 350 on their site.


Found out at the airport that the flight was a codeshare with ANA, and it was an ANA flight. Was looking forward to thousands of miles, but they just gave me 1750 each way.


Apparently, they adopted new rules before the flight.


Long story short, I've flown 22k+ miles this year, and UA acknowledges this, but my balance is 6K in miles. for an AC flight, they gave me 25%. a Swiss flight, same. and now I just flew ORD to IST on Turkish, and they say the flight is ineligible for miles cause the class code was 'U', which was worth 100% base miles in June of this year.
I flew AMS back to ORD on United, and it was awful. old plane, mean flight crew, BYO device, but nowhere to charge it (and the wifi was down)


Can anyone please help me with some info on a mileage program that doesn't play these games? I'd love to sign up for miles with star alliance directly and earn gold status on base miles alone, but there is no such program. The best I can find in a cursory search was Air Canada, but I am not yet a member and am not aware of their programs pitfalls.


HELP!


and thank you