Originally Posted by BigE

Can anything be done in my situation? I had an ANA-plated ticket on mostly ANA flights, but starting with a short domestic segment on UA. After UA cancelled that flight, I called UA to fix it. They somehow converted my ticket to a UA-plated ticket, with a 016 ticket number. I wonder if United always does this because they can't re-issue an ANA ticket? (maybe this is simlar to what happened with rr7790 above?) The net result is that I earned 1500 PQP and 10k RDM less than I would have. Yikes!

...I tried asking united mileageplus for "original routing credit". My first two responses from them were non-sequiturs, as if they didn't grasp the situation and so just loaded up a stock response to some other question. The third response said "If we request this, we will first delete all the miles you earned and then you might get nothing from ANA." Not very helpful. I think they thought I was requesting ANA miles rather than United miles, but it's hard to say based on the one-sentence reply.

Any advice here? Give up? Btw, it would be really bad if this happened to you in December and you suddenly fell short of 1k status, with no recourse.