Originally Posted by rangerss75
Thanks, everyone, for your replies. I fear Jouy31 may be right, though many of the Skyteam (and other) American airlines use other airlines to operate their flights under CO, DL or NW numbers.The Comair flight that crashed in Lexington had a DL flight number, for example. This is also true of the YUL-EWR flight I shall take.You get FB miles when taking these flights.
My guess is that Continental One Pass members do get the miles (just as we get miles when they connect to AF flights on the TGVs with an AF number). But can you imagine the protracted correspondence with FB when I finally return from a round-the-world trip, trying to get them to insert such a missing sector and then recalculate the flights for which I was Gold but only classed as Silver?
Indeed, Continental One Pass members get miles on Amtrak (and President's Club members can use the Amtrak lounges), however with Flying Blue you don't stand much of a chance. The analogy to the Comair flights is wrong, imho, as that flight operates exclusively with a DL code and is not a codeshare. So flights operated by the various 'express' carriers of NW, DL and CO get you full miles, while for example a DL flight operated by El Al would not. So, if you want to be certain, fly YUL-EWR/JFK-PHL.