Hello, in my desperation for more miles, I was wondering if the following method would work...

Let's say I travelled on BA from LHR to Australia and earned 20000 BA Exec club miles by having my BA Exec Club card swiped at check-in both ways.
On my return to the UK, could I then send my ticket and boarding cards to Alaskan and have 20000 miles also allocated to my Alaska Airlines account?

Sorry if this is a totally stupid question.


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[This message has been edited by salt (edited 09-12-2000).]

You can send your ticket stubs and boarding cards to Alaskan but when they pull up to verify you flew and see your BA account number and after verifying that your BA account has been credited then they will send u a letter stating you will not get any Alaskan miles.

Thanks for the quick reply- too quick to end a few moments of fantasy
Salt

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I think doing something like this is stealing.

If you did that, you'd be asking for miles even after they already gave you miles.

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Salt

Hello, in my desperation for more miles,

The jails of full of desperate people, may an attitude check is in order?

That is a bit unfair ranles. Until one asks, one doesn't even know that such actions are against the rules. Salt didn't say 'here is what I did, isn't it great', (s)he only asked if it is allowed.

There are posts in another thread that people have been booked on one airline, involuntarily rerouted on another, got miles for the flight flown, then requested and got miles for the flight booked as well. That's not what you asked and it's hard to plan for ahead of time, but it IS a way to get miles in two programs.

If you find a better one that works, please tell us!

The 'advice' is appreciated, Ranles - little Salt has every intention of conforming to remain pure and unpeppered.


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3 years ago I got duplicate mile on a trip to Italy thru Brussels on Sabensa/Delta.
I am not sure how it happened, but I got creidt twice for ther same flight.

I was flying into Itlay and had originally made a reservation on Delta. I had then bought a ticket thru Sabena on the same flight because it was cheaper. When I checked in at Atlanta I mistakenly went to the Delta international check in and they were not busy and checked me in anyway.

Somehow in all this I got credited twice on one leg of the trip over, not the flight from Bru into italy but the flight over.

I wish I knew how to duplicate it, I would, having an addiction to miles that drives me to all kinds of immoral acts.

There is a circumstance in which you often can get miles in two programs. If a problem arises and you are rebooked on another carrier, you will sometimes earn miles both on the originally scheduled airline and on the one you actually flew.

I have gotten miles in 2 programs, as mentioned, when a flight is cancelled, and the original airline books you on a different carrier. You should go to carrier number two, get a boarding pass that does not reflect your ff number with carrier 2, then after that give carrier 2 your ff number (with other agent or over phone etc), and then mail orig boarding pass (with no ff number) to carrier 1 that cancelled the flight to get credit on it as well.

I was also recently on a flight that stopped, but with no change of planes. Let say BOS-ORD-LAX. But one flight number. First was full bos-ord, but open ord-lax. So the agent rebooked the flights bos-ord in y and ord-lax in f. The agent wrote out something that looked like a fim for the ord-lax, and in bos they took the bos-lax original flight coupon. This way, I got miles and segment count for two flights, even though they were the same flight#. When I worked as a travel agent, I would book myself like this getting a separate segment/flight coupon for a continuation of the flight.......rather than booking it as a single thru flight. I don't know how willing most agents would be to doing this, but it never hurts to ask. The agent actually volunteered to do it, I didn't ask even.

I know of a surefire way to get miles on two carriers for a single flight. There is a certain grouping of carriers out there for which if you put in the partner FF# for travel, and then send in the ticket number of the operating carrier to their FF dept., you will get miles in both programs 100% of the time. However, I won't disclose the airlines involved, since this is a loophole I want to keep open.

If you are a Dividend Miles member of US and an AAdvantage member of AA (and register for the program), you can earn 500 miles to both your US and AA accounts for all your flights on the USAirways Shuttle.

I think this thread should stop right here.

Nick

YES!



DESPERATE PEOPLE DO DESPERATE THINGS!

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