I was lucky to get a flight ticketed from the whole ual.com mispricing fiasco from last week...a flight that is now selling for $500+. I couldn't believe they actually ticketed it despite the fact that after I clicked the "Purchase" button, the website paused the transaction, pulled up a big caution triangle and said that there had been a mistake, call this number, blah, blah, blah.

God bless them, they have ticketed the flight and it shows up in "My itineraries" as "Class: special". It shows up on viewtrip.com as "Class: tourist". Other flights I've booked recently show up as "Class: coach" or "Class: economy". What is "special" or "tourist" class and do you think they could deny us mileage accrual in this situation? I'm scared to ask them directly. I am barely going to squeak by getting 1P as it is this year, so I need to plan based on whether we are going to accrue miles here. Any advice or precedents to share? Cheers and thanks!