Fellas:
I took two round trips on United this summer past, Anchorage to Jo'burg and return. One in June and other other the end of July. My credited miles were 15000. It should have been 3x that so I called United. It seems they award miles based on the cost of the ticket. So, I flew economy so they they only award a percentage of the actual miles flown. The more expensive the ticket (business or first class)the higher the precentage of miles flown. Kind of a disappointment as I use my miles on my Africa trips to obtain a ticket to the Lower 48 to hunt turkey each year. Anyone else notice this? Is this a new plan? When I flew Delta it is the actual miles flown regaredless of the ticket cost.
Your thought?
Cal

Unfortunately seems that is the way they are moving - more to a spending/loyalty credit card model than rewarding actual flights

https://www.wsj.com/articles/f...d=business_lead_pos5

There is never anything free in this world!

I use the mileage plus credit card so I get 7X the actual miles (actually 8X since I'm Gold Status). I may make 20K-30K miles in actual flying per year now that I'm semi-retired but I accumulate about 200K miles per year because of my credit card.