Originally Posted by belynch

For a moment of levity, I'm going to try and answer this question based on CO's current handling of elite companions:

For travel on Continental, the clearing order will be:

1. Continental Platinum Elite
2. United Global Services
3. United 1K
4. Continental Gold Elite
5. United Premier Executive
6. Continental Silver Elite
7. United Premier
8. General population buy-up to F
9. Pay for play upgrade based on distance of flight
10. AA Ex+ perro
11. Friend of GA
12. People wearing nice sweaters
13. US CP
14. CO Plat. companion at a non-EWR station
15. CO Plat. companion at EWR -- is not possible.

ETA: CO Insider posted the real answer to this question while I was on the phone, before I had a chance to post it. I'm going to leave this up for humor sake -- no sense in telling me how wrong I am.