How many miles do I get when traveling with family?
Jun 17, 2012, 12:50 am
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How many miles do I get when traveling with family?
I traveled twice to SFO with my wife, nanny and 2 kids in the last few months. (This was on US Air, but FF# for all tickets was set to my UA FF account). Any reason I would get 2500 miles for each way instead of 2500*5? Do I *need* to get separate FF #'s for each of us and transfer miles? (Tricky with the nanny.) I'd be amazed if it was N miles per flight regardless of seats booked... But I've never dealt with multiple tickets before (and haven't done FF programs since the early 90's).
Jun 17, 2012, 12:54 am
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Frequent Flyer miles are only earnable by the person actually flying. ie, you can't earn miles for your wife or kids, but they can earn miles for themselves.
They will need to join Mileage Plus, and give their FF number when flying.
They will need to join Mileage Plus, and give their FF number when flying.
Jun 17, 2012, 12:58 am
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I traveled twice to SFO with my wife, nanny and 2 kids in the last few months. (This was on US Air, but FF# for all tickets was set to my UA FF account). Any reason I would get 2500 miles for each way instead of 2500*5? Do I *need* to get separate FF #'s for each of us and transfer miles? (Tricky with the nanny.) I'd be amazed if it was N miles per flight regardless of seats booked... But I've never dealt with multiple tickets before (and haven't done FF programs since the early 90's).
You can set up accounts for each of them and then try getting the US miles to post, but good luck!
Jun 17, 2012, 1:05 am
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