Question about FF route bonuses
Aug 17, 1998 | 2:00 am
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Question about FF route bonuses
A quick question regarding route bonuses.
Suppose an airline is giving a route bonus ff miles for flying between City X to City Y. Suppose you fly from City X to City Z by connecting in City Y (i.e. your routing is City X-Y-Z, not a stopover in Y but merely a connecting flight in Y) Do you get the route bonus from travelling the X-Y segments as part of the larger X-Z trip. Assume that the return routing is the same in reverse Z-Y-X and that all segments are flight coupons contained within a single ticket.
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Suppose an airline is giving a route bonus ff miles for flying between City X to City Y. Suppose you fly from City X to City Z by connecting in City Y (i.e. your routing is City X-Y-Z, not a stopover in Y but merely a connecting flight in Y) Do you get the route bonus from travelling the X-Y segments as part of the larger X-Z trip. Assume that the return routing is the same in reverse Z-Y-X and that all segments are flight coupons contained within a single ticket.
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Aug 17, 1998 | 2:46 am
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My experience has been yes, you do get the route bonus as long as it is a connection with a change of planes and flight numbers. A "direct" flight with the same flight number all the way through, even if changing planes, would not qualify.
Aug 17, 1998 | 5:14 am
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With UA I even get them (often without being aware beforehand) when I use one of my (8 heavily discounted) Visit-USA-Coupons (they are in one ticket with 8 flight-coupons).
Aug 17, 1998 | 10:00 am
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let me add: with UA (and others?) you even get it (the bonus and the ADDITION of BOTH miles, not just the direct-link-miles) even when it is the SAME flight-number: But you need TWO flight-coupons (and 2 boarding-passes).
Aug 17, 1998 | 4:46 pm
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Rudi, I have to say that I did not have this same experience with United. I went LAX-SIN by way of Tokyo on one flight number. When I checked in they did give me 2 boarding passes, one for the LAX-NRT segment and one for the NRT-SIN segment. Even though I had 2 boarding passes, the flights showed up on my MP account as one flight: LAX-SIN and I did not get the LAX-NRT route bonus. I called MP and was told the route bonus is given by whatever the city pair is in the computer and that even though I had traveled through Narita, I was not entitled to the route bonus.
Aug 17, 1998 | 5:21 pm
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You had probably only one flight coupon for LAX-SIN in your ticket. What I say is: you need TWO flight coupons AND two boarding passes. ok?
Knowing this, my ticket-office, without hesitation, delivers me (also for special trough-fares), on my special request, a flight coupon for each segment.
Knowing this, my ticket-office, without hesitation, delivers me (also for special trough-fares), on my special request, a flight coupon for each segment.
Aug 17, 1998 | 7:24 pm
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Rudy, thanks. This is great to know. I will ask for seperate flight coupons in the future where I can, but this may be impossable with E-Tickets booked on United Connection. It always seemed unfair that I was not getting the route bonus just because I did not change planes to a different flight number, or make a stopover in a connecting city for a night.