Originally Posted by
dbulkeley
When is a flight/segment not a flight/segment? I've always taken it as gospel from much more experienced members that a segment is "one take-off and one landing."
If any more experienced member told you that, I’d question their experience.
cfischer is exactly correct — the accrual of multiple PQFs on UA through flights is brand new, and was incredibly surprising when it happened. As in, I confidently stated that the people who wrote the marketing materials didn’t know how their system worked — because they used that language, whereas the system hadn’t worked that way for at least two decades, if it ever did.
Originally Posted by
dbulkeley
Has this changed among some *A members.
Yes: UA.
What you’re seeing here is a direct flight — a single flight number when an en route stop. In the early days of commercial aviation, they were incredibly common, as planes didn’t have the range for transcontinental flight, and the airlines needed to be able to pick up / drop off passengers along the way in order to sustain their business. Nowadays, they’re fairly rare, but there are still some well-known examples: UA flies the Island Hopper in Micronesia; AS has the Milk Run in southeast Alaska; SQ uses them extensively — JFK-FRA-SIN, IAH-MAN-SIN, SFO-HKG-SIN, LAX-NRT-SIN, IIRC.
Originally Posted by
dbulkeley
Exhibits: Itinerary for MNL-HKG-ADD (one flight number), and for ADD-DUB-YYZ (another flight number).
Yep; ET uses them extensively too.
Originally Posted by
dbulkeley
Yet when credited to my account, I received on 2 PQFs rather than the expected 4, and fewer PQPs.
You could ask about the PQFs, but I wouldn’t expect to get anywhere. The argument would be “you say one PQF per takeoff and landing.” You’re very, very unlikely to get them to move on the PQPs.