Hi all,

Not sure if anyone else has similar circumstances, but I wanted to make sure my logic is sound.

We moved from Houston to D.C. two years, and switched our loyalty from CO to UA, originally through status matches on UA. Now we're both 1P on UA, and have no status on CO.

Because we're in DC we fly *A and credit to UA on the majority of our flights. However, we have lots of family in Texas, and still fly to IAH 8 or so times a year. It has been hard to fly *A to IAH, as CO just has so many more direct convenient flights, especially from DCA.

We have a handful of IAH flights ahead in 2009. Ignoring for a second that we still won't get *A miles on them when flying CO, my plan was to status match UA back to CO, and get Gold on CO, so that we have benefits like early boarding, bonus miles, etc. when flying those flights to IAH on CO.

Is CO still matching UA status, despite their plans to join the *A? And, if CO matches are once in a lifetime, as far as well all know, this should be the only time I would have the need to do this, as once we get to 2010 my *A Gold should get me benefits on CO, right?

Thanks in advance!