karen2 (and others): but UA made it clear on its Chat night that segments are only good for status if flown in the US and that the baht runs for segments will NOT qualify!

I heard that the UA representatives said something like 'excluding' TG segments from being counted. But I still have to see, that UA changed that rule (in my experience they didn't change it yet up to today).

And I can't believe that they (UA) said only inner US flights would count (all my Ansett, Lauda, Austrian, SAS, LH and TG flight segments so far in 2001 did clearly count as status miles and status segments in my Mileage Plus account - and so would any outside US UA flight segment anyway!).