Rewriting since crossposting got my previous post removed. Confused about booking through United portal vs Partner portal for flights- MileagePlus + United Card
Okay, so I am going to try and lay it out in the best chunks of cases I am trying to understand without saying what I feel I would earn in terms of miles. Please do help me out here cause the language, especially with the mileageplus miles and cardmember based miles all get a little confusing after a while.
Here’s what I am trying to understand. Say I have a flight for base fare of $500 and a 3000 miles flight distance for a business class ticket. I have a mileageplus account as well as a United card (let’s say explorer for this example) which is used for all purchases in the scenarios below.
How many miles will I earn ( from mileageplus and from just the card, each) if:
- A United airline operated flight, bought from United website
- A partner airline flight, but operated by united (codeshare?), bought from United website.
- A partner airline flight, which is not operated by United, but bought from the United website
- A non-star alliance flight, but bought from the united website. (Does this even exist??)
- A partner airline flight, bought from a partner airline website, mileageplus number has been entered.
- A non partner airline flight, bought from the airlines website.
- A flight on Uniteds website, where one leg is operated by a partner and the other leg by United themselves
I have been trying to get a clear picture for a couple hours now, so any help would be appreciated! Thanks