Originally Posted by gregeckhart
Some of you are talking about flying on a UA codeshare although you purchased a US ticket, right? That's what I'm doing tomorrow. I've checked in online--with UA! This seems completely ridiculous to me. If I buy a ticket on US, I'd prefer to deal solely with US. In my mind, I should not have to mail in my boarding pass to get DM credit when I made the reservation with US. They should fix that.
Does seem odd, but as someone who often flies UA codeshares operated by US (and credited to my UA account), I often have to check in with US online--once even when the US segment was not the first in the itin (United.com is a real dunce, after all. At small stations where the two airlines have only a couple of destinations each but codeshare, there are often hand-done signs saying, "If you are checking in for flights xxxx or yyyy, go to the US counter to check in," or vice-versa.
In all likelihood, you won't have to mail in your BP to get credit for the UA-operated flight. I've found for my US codeshares (and my fiancee, who credits her UA flights to her US DM account, the opposite of me), they generally post in 1-3 days. Only twice have they failed to post and required the mail-in.