findark

I think it should be fine. The grammar is a little stranger than usual, but the plating rules seem to allow the standard set of *A TATL friends:

mario_s

I have booked! thx! Anyone knows how does OS Y map to LO?

findark

I didn't verify, but Y goes to Y pretty much always.

mario_s

So one more AC E to LH? Also E?

findark

Yes, O/E/N goes to G/E/N. It's usually the way makes sense.

drvannostren

My experience with UA codeshares is the fares listed on their site line up with the operating airline (ie a UA codeshare W on NZ earns what an NZ W fare would), does this line up with what others have experienced?

jsloan

As a general rule, codeshares can't be upgraded. And a W fare isn't going to be upgradeable by any currency except for the operating carrier's own. This sounds like a UA code on a flight operated by NZ, so you'd only have any chance of upgrading it with NZ miles.

WineCountryUA

Many times yes BUT there are numerous deviations -- especially for airlines with Premium Economy. However there are other such "A" fares with AC, AC has it as discount economy, UA uses it for discount F., R is another one to watch for and P

drvannostren

Fair enough, any experience about W? UA has rebooked me into W codeshare on an NZ flight. My previous L fare was gonna be 0% earning (it was such a good deal I bought it anyway) but a W class, if it's NZ W, has a wide range of earning potentials.

It does indicate W now on the "manage my booking" area on the NZ site.

drvannostren

I thought there might be a bigger thread for codeshare questions, but I didn't come across one so I'll ask it here.

In my past experience the UA website lists their codeshares correctly.

IE: SFO-IAH UA 1696 K
IAH-NRT UA7900 (operated by ANA) K

My experience with the UA site is that K for the NH flight is correct and will credit according to K fare rules operated by ANA. I've used this multiple times and never had any issues (unlike AC's website) and thus I no longer question it.

Today I was rebooked from SEA-LAX-AKL to SEA-IAH-AKL and the IAH-AKL was rebooked into W fare. Great, I can earn some solid miles instead of the L I was originally given. But when picking my seats and conversing with the NZ phone rep she confirmed it was booked into an Air New Zealand W fare, but that the mileage would credit as an L fare which is the original. She said "they've only put W because they had to, to get you on this flight".

...is she right? Again, I've never had an issue with what the website says. I'm gonna fly either way, but I have no idea if I'll earn at the W fare vs the L fare just because of her comment. I could see an FFP trying to do this, "pay out" miles based on the original booking class, the way they do with upgrades, but I can't imagine they'd actually be able to pull it off. This is a ticket bought on United, flying with United and Air New Zealand, but I'll wanna credit the miles to Asiana, so I really don't see how all 3 would pass on the info correctly so that Asiana would "pay out" as L.

Thoughts?

jsloan

There is no published correlation between the booking class for the codeshare and the internal booking class used internally by NZ. If UA W maps to NZ L, you'll get credit for an NZ L.

You've been lulled into a false sense of security because NH and UA have alignment on the K booking class.

My guess is that you'll receive whatever credit you would have received if you had originally purchased the UA W fare. What credit that is, I have no idea, but it's not necessarily the same as if you had a W fare on an NZ-coded flight.

drvannostren

Fair enough, I've also had the same experience with LH, AC and CM flights where whatever the booking class shown on the UA site earned at the rate that class would on their earnings table. Again example, I was rebooked into Y on LH one day and earned at that rate as opposed to the UA K that I was originally in.

Originally I was booked into UA L and then UA Codeshare L, now it shows UA L and UA Codeshare W and the Air New Zealand website says W for the booking class.

I guess we shall see, but fingers crossed I earn the W rate because then I'll get some miles off this ridiculously cheap flight. If not, then no harm no foul the rebooking just got me a slightly more interesting routing.

WineCountryUA

Looking further at NZ,


F, P, X are clearly different and S is placed differently between NZ and UA

But is it showing the NZ flight number or the UA codeshare?

drvannostren

It's showing the UA codeshare number.

If it makes a difference I'm trying to earn to OZ, so if it ends up being "credited" as L I'll get 0% but if it ends up getting credited as W I'll get 100% which would be a cool 7500 ish miles, which I could definitely use .

WineCountryUA

Then it is not the NZ fare class. Give NZ a call and aks.