Claiming miles that I have flown before registering as frequent flyer

7/19/2016 7:22:12 AM

If you have a significant number of flights in a small period, besides investigating the credit prior to enrollment policy of the airline that you flew, it may be worthwhile investigating partner airlines that you might be able to credit the flights to.

For example, these are all the airline mileage programmes that you could credit an American Airlines flight to on wheretocredit.com

AB  Air Berlin
AS  Alaska Airlines
BA  British Airways
CX  Cathay Pacific Airways  
EY  Etihad Airways  
AY  Finnair
IB  Iberia  
JL  Japan Airlines
9W  Jet Airways 
KE  Korean Air  
LA  LAN Airlines
MH  Malaysia Airlines
QF  Qantas Airways
QR  Qatar Airways
S7  S7 Airlines 
UL  SriLankan Airlines

Mostly, there are greater restrictions on credit prior to enrollment when the flight was on a partner airline. For example, see this old thread on flyertalk regarding Star Alliance crediting.

Incidentally, it seems your Virgin flights are on Virgin America rather than Virgin Atlantic and Ts&Cs are provided here.

Eligible travel must occur no earlier than 30 days prior to your
Elevate Program enrollment date as displayed in your Elevate Program
account

Potential partner airlines are here.

EK  Emirates    
HA  Hawaiian Airlines   
SQ  Singapore Airlines  
VS  Virgin Atlantic 
VA  Virgin Australia
7/19/2016 5:54:03 AM

Airlines have a certain time limit till which you can claim missing miles. I am a Qatar Airways frequent traveler and they have the following conditions

Time limit when becoming a new member = 30 days prior to the start of membership

Time limit for claiming miles for existing members = 6 months after the flight date

for your case please refer to the following links
American Airlines : https://www.aa.com/AAdvantage/requestMileageCreditAccess.do

Virgin Atlantic : https://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/us/frequentflyer/youraccount/managefcaccount/missingmiles.jsp

United Airlines : https://www.united.com/web/en-US/apps/mileageplus/mileagecredit/ePlusSubscriptionsCredit.aspx

OR
you may have to log in to your mileageplus account and navigate to the earn mileageplus miles and go to request/claim missing credit/miles

JetBlue : https://trueblue.jetblue.com/group/trueblue/manage-my-points

I hope this helps

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