Originally Posted by
unitedwildcat
If you’re on a direct but not nonstop flight, is lifetime miles calculated by the distance between origin and destination airports?
ContinentalFan is correct — you’ll get the great circle distance between the origin and destination airports. That can be
less than your longest segment: at one point, UA’s last AUS-SFO flight of the day continued to LAS — so if you flew AUS-SFO-LAS, you got several hundred
fewer lifetime miles than if you’d just flown AUS-SFO by itself.
Originally Posted by
8MiHi
All of my Lifetime miles have been counted by segment.
Including direct flights (same flight number?) I don’t believe I’ve
ever heard of that happening, at least not without significant work by an agent.