Earning skymiles on KL AMS-HAV?
Sep 9, 2014, 2:42 pm
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Earning skymiles on KL AMS-HAV?
The Airfrance Accrual Chart explicitly excludes earning miles on flights to Havana: "Flights to/from Havana, Cuba (HAV) are not eligible", whereas the KLM chart does not contain an exclusion.
Does this mean I earn skymiles on a KL metal AMS-HAV flight?
(I contacted Delta but they didn't respond)
Does this mean I earn skymiles on a KL metal AMS-HAV flight?
(I contacted Delta but they didn't respond)
Last edited by routeburn; Sep 9, 2014 at 2:50 pm
Sep 9, 2014, 4:13 pm
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The Airfrance Accrual Chart explicitly excludes earning miles on flights to Havana: "Flights to/from Havana, Cuba (HAV) are not eligible", whereas the KLM chart does not contain an exclusion.
Does this mean I earn skymiles on a KL metal AMS-HAV flight?
(I contacted Delta but they didn't respond)
Does this mean I earn skymiles on a KL metal AMS-HAV flight?
(I contacted Delta but they didn't respond)
The terms and conditions for the SkyMiles program don't allow earning on flights where US carriers are not allowed to operate.
Mileage credit will not be given for the following:...Travel which U.S. carriers are prohibited from providing or facilitating under U.S. sanctions regulations or other applicable law.
Sep 17, 2018, 11:21 pm
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(I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised that a four-year-old link still delivers relatively the same information, as DL's information architecture often leaves something to be desired).
Sep 20, 2018, 12:59 pm
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NO. There's still US sanctions against Cuba. US airlines can't verify the trip was in compliance when on a partner. Thus no credit.
Sep 22, 2018, 2:14 am
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Otherwise, I'm making purely an annoying, tedious, legalistic point. If DL does not exclude travel originating from Cuba in its language somewhere, then it should provide benefits and/or correct its language-- at its cost.
Sep 22, 2018, 4:49 am
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Any why not? Travelling on a US passport-- sure, that's not necessarily the case-- we must fill out the same DoS form for AM flights, surely DL can co-ordinate with its partners. (And on a non-US passport, well, that's more complex; but again, it's purely a technical compliance issue, and not that hard).
Otherwise, I'm making purely an annoying, tedious, legalistic point. If DL does not exclude travel originating from Cuba in its language somewhere, then it should provide benefits and/or correct its language-- at its cost.
Otherwise, I'm making purely an annoying, tedious, legalistic point. If DL does not exclude travel originating from Cuba in its language somewhere, then it should provide benefits and/or correct its language-- at its cost.