Originally Posted by
IAN-UK
... you might be stuck with crediting it to ITA
I have just booked a trans-Atlantic ITA J (business) ticket through an OTA, and wanted to add my FlyingBlue or DL miles account numbers to my itinerary. I checked FB rules, it turns out FB accepts ITA mile credits ONLY if the ITA flight is marketed by KLM/AF. I then check Delta, it's the same, the ITA flight must be marketed by Delta in order to get DL mile credits. So, It looks like my upcoming ITA flight mile credits can only go to an ITA account, which yet to be created and will sure to be an orphan account.
I Googled ITA and Skyteam, apparently, the results show ITA's role in Skyteam is questionable. This is not nice. Who would think that an airline claims to be a member of an alliance, but do not fulfill member obligation and do not provide alliance benefit.I believe ST is also to be blamed, ST's quality is obviously way lagging behind SA. I feel I was fooled by ITA's ST logo, and will not fly with ITA anymore after this trip.
I am sharing my experience here so others won't repeat my mistake.