Earning miles using hidden ticketing?
If you buy a 'hidden ticket' and fly from destination A to C with a stopover at point B (and you will leave the airport at destination B with a unused B to C leg), can you still accrue miles from the B to C leg? What if you checked in for the B to C leg but just didn't board the flight - can you get miles for this?
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Frequent flyer miles are generally only earned when there's a "butt in seat", to quote the charming term of art from frequent flyer forums. If you don't show up at the gate and get your boarding pass scanned for the flight from B-C, you're going to be recorded as a no-show, and you're not going to get any miles for it either.
Also, while hidden-city ticketing is generally against the airline's T&C, it is almost certainly not "theft" in a criminal sense. But since the airline controls its frequent flyer scheme, you do run a real risk of losing your miles — even those flown "butt in seat" from A to B — if you do this too often.
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Is hidden ticketing illegal?
Technically it does violate the airline's contract of carriage, which is why an airline can penalize you by cancelling your frequent flyer miles, but so far anytime an airline has brought a legal suit involving hidden city ticketing, the case has been dismissed.Can I earn miles by booking?
Airline credit cards typically pay you bonus miles for booking flights directly through the airline, so you get fewer when you purchase a flight through an OTA. But other credit cards give you bonus points for all travel, even when booked with an OTA.How do you earn miles by flying?
You can earn airline miles in many ways, including booking flights or spending money with a travel credit card that offers rewards in the form of miles.Can you earn miles from past flights?
\u201cCan he still get the miles for the trips we've already flown?\u201d she asked. Luckily, yes, to a point. Whether you forgot to join an airline's frequent flier program or just didn't add your number when booking your flight, most major airlines in America will give you a window to claim them.The Airlines Biggest Loophole: Hidden City Ticketing
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There are exceptions caused by bad IT (for example, years ago BA code sharing onto Aer Lingus used to be famous for that) but in general the answer is no. It's also quite unpredictable because those kind of gaps don't really stay around for long.
Really air miles are not worth that much, the few extra you would collect from the B-C journey are not worth your time. If you really are into air miles you need a system to generate them en mass, either through flying every week on your employer's business (in which case the idea of doing flying on your day off quickly becomes unappetising) or something like manufactured spending.
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