noone told me that its best to book directly with the airline
Sep 24, 2001, 2:24 am
#1
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 984
noone told me that its best to book directly with the airline
so i have a star lite ticket with a couple of now defunct UA legs (hkg-del and del-lhr); managed to get the del-lhr fixed with an alliance carrier but the other leg is kaput..wont bend the rules for 416 miles to go to del via bkk; got a bit heated and felt ashamed..but is there an alliance or not? UA keep saying..oh well its not our ticket (even tho the majority of it is on UA metal) so no way..how can i be so graspy at a time like this? well at least the lost of those status miles which will cost me 1K status with UA is something concrete i can focus on, when everything is so scary..but i think the alliance owes me 1449 miles as they put me on a non- alliance carrier..
yuk what a creep ive become..
yuk what a creep ive become..
Sep 24, 2001, 2:49 am
#2
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: CH-3823 Wengen Switzerland
Programs: miles&more, MileagePlus
Posts: 27,041
if a booked/confirmed (UA) flight is cancelled and you are put for that flight segment on another (in your case Non-Star-Alliance-) carrier, you can get miles for both: the cancelled flight (credited as status miles too on your UA account) and the actual flight (credited to a ff-account related to that other carrier).
So mileage (and status) wise you win.
UA agents can provide you a special paper-request for such (not unusual) 'happenings' (You need to know and give the actual ticket-#, the flight dates and the reason for the rebooking).
Be happy and smile.
So mileage (and status) wise you win.
UA agents can provide you a special paper-request for such (not unusual) 'happenings' (You need to know and give the actual ticket-#, the flight dates and the reason for the rebooking).
Be happy and smile.
Sep 24, 2001, 10:55 pm
#3
Moderator: Hyatt Gold Passport & Star Alliance
Join Date: May 1998
Location: London, UK
Programs: UA-1K 3MM/HY- LT Globalist/BA-GGL/GfL
Posts: 12,093
I had the same problem with a C RTW, issued by British Midland. Luckily my re-route HKG-BKK-DEL-FRA-LHR came in just under the 39000 miles. However, UA now threaten to cancel HKG-NRT-HKG, so I may be stuck.
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