Originally Posted by jan_az
#1- You cant match your CP status to UA. The same as I cant match my UA 1K to US. Airlines in an alliance have an unofficial "no poaching" rule. See the Status match master thread for more details
#2 - You state that you were aware that later segments would cancel - so why are you now acting as if you were not.
#3 - A non collected boarding pass is NOT the same as a no-show. Somewhere in the system they verify the manifest - do passenger headcounts, etc - and you would have shown on the flight
Just out of curiousity - how many times did you call UA to get the answer that "all would be OK" - as a non status UA flyer were you talking to India? - did you get a name and/or employee ID number and call center that you were talking to
#1 One of my best friends matched his US CP status to 1K on UA (and got the same level of status on CO, DL, NW and AA).
#2 I figured that I would have a problem with the later segments if I didn't show up. I figured that if I called UA and told UA I wouldn't make the flight and asked to confirm that my future segments were OK, I would have been told the truth. I was told to have myself un-checked in and then my segments would not be cancelled. UA lied to me. That's why I think I should get a travel credit rather than losing all of my money (my own, on a leisure ticket). If UA wants to follow its policies re: ticket cancellation, it should also follow its "Customer Commitment" policies, featured on its website, which to me don't provide that UA will lie to its customers.
#3 True but those passenger headcounts are sometimes guesstimates; I've seen FAs on US say, "well, I think there about X number of people on board?", get a response of "no, there should be Y on board" and then reply, "well, then my headcount shows Y". I've also seen the manifest printed before all passengers have been assigned seats. Thus I'd reasonably expect that a no-show would result in the same consequences as someone who boards a plane without having his boarding pass collected.