Dear fellow travelers,
here's my situation, back in September I flew CGN-MUC-AUH with the first flight operated by LH and the second one (EY006) operated by EY. The flight was booked on LH ticket stock using the LH code 9659 for MUC-AUC. Usually, I'm booking this flight on EY stock, but this time around, I was traveling back from RUH on LH, so our corporate travel agent chose to book the codeshare instead. I'm aware that in order to collect M&M miles, the operating carrier counts (so no milages accrual for LH M&M), so I made sure that my Etihad Guest miles number was added for the second segment. However, no miles were posted. When I wrote to Etihad Guest later, I received the following response:
Thank you for taking the time to contact Etihad Guest.
You can only earn miles with our code share partners when flying on a flight with the Etihad Airways code of our code share flights.
In light of the above the flights mentioned below is ineligible for accrual of miles.
So, in essence I cannot earn any miles for this flight, no for LH M&M (as it is EY metal) and not on Etihad Guest as the flight was booked under the LH code. Is that really the case? In my view, this devalues the codeshare arrangement quite a bit. Or am I missing something?