<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by avek00:
The UAers are not giving you an essental caveat: MP miles are good if you end up spending them on carriers OTHER THAN United, especially if you redeem for international C or F.
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The bottom line is that unlike with CO, the miles I earn on UA I can actually USE whether for upgrades or outright tickets on an airline/alliance with a REAL global network.
The only affiliation I have left with CO is about a million (literally) miles that I just can't get any redemption on. And that's even as a Platinum elite for whom CO supposedly makes better award availbility. It's all downhill from there.
Avek has been interestingly enough very quiet lately, especailly in the face of the GLORIUOUS changes and repercussions of the CO nOnePass program. Wonder what gives?