Possible to get WorldPerks miles on flight not taken
Nov 26, 2008, 11:07 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Iowa
Posts: 229
Possible to get WorldPerks miles on flight not taken
I don't think I will be able to make a flight for which I am ticketed.
Is it possible to still get the WorldPerks miles?
Is it possible to still get the WorldPerks miles?
Nov 26, 2008, 11:16 am
#2
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: RST
Programs: Delta Diamond; Hilton Diamond; Accor Gold
Posts: 4,839
If rerouted you can ask for miles (because of mechanical delay for example).
If you miss a flight for any other reason you will not get the miles.
If you miss a flight for any other reason you will not get the miles.
Nov 30, 2008, 11:14 am
#3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: MKE / MSP
Programs: NWA GE -- PRIORITY CLUB PE
Posts: 118
Not since the old days has this been possible. If your boarding pass is not scanned, if you are not known to be on the flight, no miles will be given.
Nov 30, 2008, 11:50 am
#4
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: IAD/DCA/YYZ/ICN
Programs: AC*E
Posts: 118
NW will decline your request for mileage credit based on the fact that the ticket wasn't used. You have to fly to receive mileage credit.
Nov 30, 2008, 2:01 pm
#5
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Location: LAX/BOS/HKG/AMS/SFO...hmm, I need a life.
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Nov 30, 2008, 2:51 pm
#6
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I've always wondered whether it'd be possible to board a flight (and therefore have your ticket scanned) and then get off the plane (claiming you forgot something) and then never reboard. I wouldn't try it myself but theoretically it sounds possible?
Nov 30, 2008, 3:48 pm
#7
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Join Date: May 2006
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The only time I ever got miles for a flight I didn't take was a short (<500 mile) connecting hop at the end of a long (>4000 mile) intercontinental flight - my plans changed at the last minute and I had to go somewhere else from the hub. I had to call the airline (not NWA) about credit for the long flight, and was shocked when they credited the short one as well - I think they probably didn't have good track of the ticket due to the changes and just credited the whole ticket as booked rather than do all the work of sorting out what happened. 
Dec 1, 2008, 12:33 am
#8
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: DTW
Programs: AA Gold
Posts: 514
Being brown, I sure as hell wouldn't try it. :P
Dec 1, 2008, 2:41 pm
#9
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Kansas City
Programs: Marriott Gold, Hilton Diamond, Delta Gold, United 1P
Posts: 69
Normally I wouldn't have even bothered filling out the paperwork and just consider it bad luck, but I am at 89,965 EQM right now and this will let me hit the 90k Elite Extra Perks level.