Originally Posted by
frappant (Post # 186)
I'm in the middle of a trip for which I redeemed 210k miles for SFO-BNE-HBA and SYD-SFO.
I'm going to take the return segment in a few days.
For SFO-BNE, I was only awarded 951 PQP and 1 PQF.
The award price was 210k because of the BNE-HBA segment on Virgin Australia [VA].
So I should expect 2,000 PQP once I complete this trip, right? I wouldn't expect to get anything for BNE-HBA since it was not on UA metal. But the 951 PQP for the outbound trans-Pacific segment doesn't make sense.
The 951 PQP for the outbound UA SFO-BNE segment means that UA values that portion of the trip as having used 95,100 redeemable miles (RDM).
As you stated, UA does not give PQF or PQP for award redemptions on other airlines (OA).
Thus, you will indeed get no PQF or PQP for the VA BNE-HBA award segment, but UA will assign a RDM value to that portion of the trip. As a theoretical example, it could be 15k RDM.
Thus, your total PQP after using 210k RDM will not be 2,100 PQP. One has to subtract the PQP value of the RDM attributed to VA, that is, 150 PQP in my imaginary example.
PQF PQP Routing Carrier
1
. . . 951 SFO-BNE
.UA
0
. . "150" BNE-HBA VA (not credited)
1 . . . 999 SYD-SFO
.UA
2
. . 1,950 Total
The actual numbers will be available shortly after the trip is complete. Yes, if the VA BNE-HBA award segment is worth only 10k RDM, you would receive 2,000 PQP total.