Crediting P class on Ethiopian
Aug 31, 2017, 10:41 am
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: NRT / HND
Programs: AA EXP, NH Plat, Former UA 1K
Posts: 5,665
This comes up time and time again, usually in the Premium Fare Deals of the Mileage Run forum. Unfortunately, as B747-437B mentioned, only those two fairly unpopular programs.
This comes up so often it really needs to be a warning sticky in at least the Mileage Run forum. Basically ET P fares are useless for most Flyertalkers (the small % of the flying population who cares about mileage earning).
I really wish more people would start directly complaining to ET and Sheba Miles about this issue. It's ridiculous that an airline who has traditionally given mileage credit for even their bottom of the barrel economy fares, to intentionally exclude a paid business class fare from earning anything in most partner programs. (essentially as I understand it, operating airlines have to agree to pay partner mileage programs a certain amount per mile to credit to the partner program, and ET has decided for whatever reason to exclude any sort of payment on their P business class fares).
This comes up so often it really needs to be a warning sticky in at least the Mileage Run forum. Basically ET P fares are useless for most Flyertalkers (the small % of the flying population who cares about mileage earning).
I really wish more people would start directly complaining to ET and Sheba Miles about this issue. It's ridiculous that an airline who has traditionally given mileage credit for even their bottom of the barrel economy fares, to intentionally exclude a paid business class fare from earning anything in most partner programs. (essentially as I understand it, operating airlines have to agree to pay partner mileage programs a certain amount per mile to credit to the partner program, and ET has decided for whatever reason to exclude any sort of payment on their P business class fares).