FullFare

Baze: Sorry about the "smiley" stuff, but if you tell someone he/she can't add, smiley's don't compensate. Advanced doctorates don't mean much at Flyertalk anyway, so I agree with you. I believe you post too much, and I regret that I post as much as do I. Suggest we both let it go and do more lurking than posting. I don't need, nor want, you to know who I am. Best regards to you.

demosthenes1

And this morning my 2,000 missing miles reappeared.

SFOsnow

I got my 3,000 miles back this morning, after 3 days--this has been a good reminder about taking regular screenshots.

romadaro

My 200,000+ miles are back! man, why do we put up with this??? How many more system glitches can they find??

Baze

Point taken and I always go back to the point, Einstein couldn't add. So it has nothing to do with ones intelligence. But Einstein's inability to do basic math is also a myth, hence the joke. He actually had problems with things such as language, etc.

So I apologize if you took offense.

And as for posting too much, under 3500 posts in ~14 years is not very much. specially when compared to ones with 30,000+ posts and some of those in a MUCH shorter time period.

CCIE_Flyer

No flight activity in that timeframe and lifetime miles appear to be correct...

Edit: Post is probably of little value since others were already reporting that missing credit had reappeared. I must've accidentally skipped from the first page to this one, as I didn't see any of that in my first read. Sorry!

sfoboy85

After it went down from 171,XXX to 159,590 I sent an email to 1Kvoice. When I opened up my email this morning, they wrote me back and asked for screenshots to prove that I had 171,XXX...

Logged-in and saw my lifetime flight miles was at 53,911 ...?

Then another hour later I saw it went back to 171,XXX...

WOW... United ... you are quite something... Never a boring day at the IT department

DDDave

My 4,120 erroneous lifetime miles came back also. I doubt this is the end of it.

malgudi

This is stupid ... we can't go around taking screen shots ever so often (does anybody do this for their bank account? Thank you, didn' t think so) just because UA is messed up

alex_b

What are advanced doctorate degrees? One doctorate was more than enough for me, I can't imagine doing any more (although if I'd stayed in academic I may have submitted my collected journals for a D.Sc.). Is this something to do with the US having these weird "taught doctorates" for medicine, physical therapy etc, which really are just second degrees with a courtesy title?

gobluetwo

I checked when I first saw this thread, but my lifetime total (close to 400k) was correct, ie, it matches the spreadsheet I've been maintaining. I'm currently at 15 (actual) segments on UA for the year, so I've definitely had activity since 1/1.

sfoboy85

I agree, this is ridiculous!!! Why do I have to prove things if their system is so broken that it randomly takes away lifetime flight miles?

QBK

I sort of hate to say this, but... is this really worth complaining about? I'm specifically addressing this to those of us that posted angry, frustrated comments after the bug was fixed.

The database screwed up for between 24 and 48 hours. It got fixed (and, yes, my missing 160K are back too). It had no consequences for anybody's status or upgrades.

So something went wonky and it got fixed pretty quickly. This happens pretty often in the IT world -- heck, Hilton's entire reservations engine goes down about once a month. Honestly, much as I'd love to complain about this, I don't think it's worth it. There was never any concrete reason to believe that the screwup was either (1) permanent, or (2) malicious -- and no cause to believe that United was out to get us or significantly incompetent... unless you were already convinced of that.

Definitely not trying to start a flame discussion here. I just believe it's not a very big deal. (Obviously, had it not been fixed, it would have been a big deal... and from now on I'm keeping track of my lifetime miles just to be careful.)

JDS747

As others have posted mine are back now. Just a little glitch I guess.

KevinPK1

I hit 2MM lifetime last week (2,006,000) and found it down by 8k this morning and now back to correct amount.