Originally Posted by
uiucsb
I booked a one-way award with 3 legs: OS in J (VIE-LHR), UA in J (LHR-DEN), and UA in Y (DEN-SNA); and even during the booking UA website showed that only 2 legs would count for PQF and PQP.
Essentially, Why?
The OS flight had a different reservation code (which I used to check-in for the flight... that was its own problem as 2 of the tickets were for children, but OS thought they were adults. So, when I tried to use their birthdays during check-in, the OS website and an error and there was no way around it. Even at the VIE airport counter, the man started by acting very unsure that a reservation for children listed as adults would go through... but it did go through and we got boarding passes).
For that OS flight, I made sure the UA FF# was on the tickets. - but that leg hasn't shown up in my account.
And, do I need to ask about lifetime miles for that leg (Extremely minor point...)
Thanks much.
PQP and PQF can only be earned on award ticket flights operated by United (or UEX). Similarly, n
lifetime mileage is accrued on award tickets. Details
on this page. I've never run into the child ticket issue. When they were young, we always bought our children adult tickets as the prices were the same and it made checking in / changing flights / splitting PNRs much easier.