Originally Posted by
seedavework
Will I earn 11,504 X 1 / 5 OR 2301 PQP if I buy Premium Economy from LH website ( and credit to UA )
Will I earn 11,504 x 0.5 / 5 OR 1150 PQP if I buy Economy from LH Website ( and credit to UA )
This is mostly correct, but there are a couple of gotchas.
Any flight operated by UA will still earn based upon its fare, so you have to consider SGF-ORD separately. UA will likely assign a tiny fraction of the fare to this short flight, so I'd ignore it for calculation purposes and stick with ORD-FRA/MUC-KBP.
However, it also means that you need to be careful which flight you book across the ocean. If you book a UA-operated flight, even with a Lufthansa flight number on the Lufthansa website, you will get credited based on the fare, not distance.
And, the fare class for economy tickets varies. On Lufthansa, K class -- the least expensive -- is only 25% of distance, rather than 50% like S, T, and L classes are.
Originally Posted by
AugustW
You are correct. If you travel internationally in economy, especially premium economy you are incentivized to fly alliance members rather than United. From EWR you can fly direct to SIN in Premium Economy for under $1,000 and get over 3,100 PQP.
Premium Economy, yes. Economy, that is much less true.
Originally Posted by
seedavework
I looked at a similar ticket booked though Expedia in L class and I think this means United will only give me 0.25 * Actual Milage / 5 .
L on Lufthansa is 50%, not 25%.