FlyerTalk Forums - How do you split a "direct" flight to increase miles

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by KathyWdrf:
Just luck, I would guess. Maybe one of our UA employee friends can shed some light.

I flew the same flight(s) myself on November 26 (UA 837 SFO-NRT-BKK). Had different seat assignments on the two segments. The departure dates for each segment were different, of course! But I received only 7,924 miles. (I knew about this in advance and it doesn't hurt my plans to make 1K using the Double EQM offer, so I didn't bother to try to do a "split" to get the 87 extra flight miles in each direction.)

Kathy </font>

Now I'm really confused. I didn't do anything special (no upgrade attempt, no seat changes, nothing) after ticketing. The only thing maybe I did differently was that I used a companion cert to fly two-for-one, and (as a result) had to purchase the H fare. Still, I wouldn't have expected either of these (companion cert, H-fare) to have any bearing on this.

fiat_owner

edited to add: I'm not 100% sure of this, but it sounds familiar that "reboarding pass" written across the top of the BP. Both BPs were issued at SFO. Next chance I get, I'll look on the BP stub to see if anything appears there.

[This message has been edited by fiat_owner (edited Dec 08, 2003).]