Originally Posted by
krzysz
I agree this is really silly and undermines the purpose of having an alliance. However, for clarification, it seems to me that you do get points if you fly a US metal on a UA number, but not the other way round (perhaps someone could correct me if I am wrong).
Correct. UA does not have any flight numbers excluded, neither has LH nor AC nor TG (for example). So in these cases the operating carriers code will be valid.
There are a few carriers operating flights on behalf of LH that are not part of EuroBonuns and in these cases wyou will not earn any points.
It seems that the original * members this opearting thing works out but for all the new carriers there is a major s***w up.
Maybe the alliance is growing somewhat to fast.
My pet peeve has always been that the I as a customer should get points according to the marketing carrier as that is what I can affect by giving my money to.