Originally Posted by night-ice
If you're going after the 25k bonus miles, the entire r/t must be on UA/UA Express or TED for the flights to be counted; no codeshare partners..not sure if you can re-route your ticket or not?
night-ice--
I modified my post that you quoted to (hopefully) clarify that my unstated requirement was for "all UA metal" (so that my MR would be a qualifying R/T for the 25k promo).
SFOTRAVELER was just pointing out a routing that resulted in better BIS/EQMs for similar $$$ ... but UA metal miles was my objective.