Earning US Miles on Partner Airlines
 

Hi there. So I took a trip to OTP and CGN. I booked on LH, as it was difficult to to decent booking on anyone else. I flew PHL-FRA-OTP, then OTP-MUC-CGN, then CGN-FRA-BOS. I then flew home on a separate PNR BOS-PHL. I was traveling with someone from BOs, and for some reason returning to PHL on the original itinerary was much much more expensive.

So in any case, I received my miles for every leg, except I noticed my outbound PHL-FRA-OTP was not credited. I submitted a missing miles request, and a couple of weeks later I sent an email to follow-up. I now see this in my account.

PHL FRA 0427 T <NAME>
034-BOOKING CLASS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ACCRUAL

FRA OTP 1420 T <NAME>
034-BOOKING CLASS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ACCRUAL

What's the deal?? Any ideas?

Oh man.. I see it is a T fare, and it says that's not eligible. ARGH!!! I wish I knew that! I was counting on that to keep my status. Darn Corporate Travel dept!

believe me, we've all been hit with this before. It's worse when the fare class was eligible for mileage when you booked...but was quietly changed by US before you flew.

I'm sure this is mentioned in many places (but not sure where), but how do you check fare classes before booking?

You'll typically see something like (K) when booking a flight. I always go here to check each *A airlines fare codes.

For LH flights, the link is here:
http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid...lufthansa.html


This topic seems to come up about once a month here on the US forum.

Depends on the site/ticketing carrier, but it's usually the first letter of the alpha-numeric fare code attacked to the ticket.

US earnings for upgraded UA flight
 

I have an odd question that I never ran into before. Trying to credit US miles for UA metal flights. My partner I'm flying with on same reservation is UA elite so will have a high chance that we will both get upgraded with his status. My question is will I get 100% BIS miles credited to my US Airways, since an upgrade from economy to business/domestic first would be to I or O class...which technically on US Airways partner earning chart accrues 0%.
I'm thinking it should since it states that it should be based on booking class, which is regular economy ticket. Just wanted to see if any FTer has run into this situation I'm having. Thanks so much!

You'll get the normal 100%, barring any IT glitches from UA.

There are multiple threads on here where people have had problems getting miles credited to an upgraded UA flight. It may take some persistence to get the miles if they don't get credited automatically.

UA's system for a while was sending over the booking class flown rather than the booking class purchased, which was causing a zero-credit problem in this scenario when the miles actually went to post. A call (or sometimes a few) to US could get this resolved, as bevoinva said, with a little persistence.

I don't know if that's still the case, or if UA now sends over the correct information. It's been a while since I've seen this topic come up, so maybe they have fixed it. Or maybe everyone is just avoiding UA like the plague, or still sitting at #89 on the upgrade list for an upgrade they're technically not eligible for anyway (unless like in OP's case they share a PNR with a UA elite).

I flew UA in August on a fare which I upgraded with miles. Got credit for the original booking class I purchased. US directed me to keep receipt and boarding passes just in case there was a problem but I earned the proper credit without having to do anything special.

Preferred Miles on Star Alliance (United)
 

HI -

I have read many of the post on this forum and can not find a straight answer. Will tix bought on United.com and flown on United metal with a US Dividend Miles number attached get US Preferred Miles (miles that count toward status)?

thx

um, YES

Yes, so long as it's not on a flight with one of these numbers:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-ai...-miles-ua.html