Originally Posted by
whiteknuckles
I am not happy. On August 15, I flew AMS-LAX with a CHANGE OF PLANES at IAH. My AMS-IAH boarding pass indicated that I would earn 5013 miles while the IAH-LAX boarding pass showed that I would earn 1379 miles for a total of 6392 miles. When the miles posted, I was only given 5579 miles as if I had flown AMS-LAX nonstop simply because Continental decided to give both the AMS-IAH flight and the IAH-LAX flight the same number: 47. To add insult to injury, I am only 797 miles away from becoming a 2008 Silver Elite and here I was cheated out of 813 actual flight miles!
I'll get the same number of miles anyway.
Standard practice--it happens quite a bit, and it doesn't matter if it has a change of planes or not.
This originates from true direct flights, back before transcon nonstops were possible.
And while you may have been screwed out of some miles, you did avoid paying some portions of the taxes associated with connecting and segments, since it retained the same flight number.