Originally Posted by blauenote

Hi,

I freshly enrolled into the Miles & More program and just found out that Air India and Air China were both partners to Lufthansa.
Lufthansa allows you to claim retroactive credit for flights flown within the last 12 months -- I flew one CDG-EWR return trip on Air India 9 months ago and one CDG - BJS SHA-CDG open jaw on Air China last June, that got me no miles at all.

Unfortunately, I don't have anything from the flights - I guess I could probably get copies of the tickets from my travel agency, but for the boarding passes, I had to give them to the company's secretary at the time. There's a thread here (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=716587) where they say LH might give me credit for these flights even without boarding passes.

But before I get into the hassle of calling both my travel agencies to try and get a copy of the tickets, and then Lufthansa and explain my case, I was wondering -- do you know what LH's policy is for activity that occurred before enrollment into the M&M program?
E.g., American doesn't give retroactive credit for this, but with Flying Blue I got credits for flights I had flown two months before enrolling.

Drives me crazy to think that those miles might just be gone