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Old Dec 25, 2009 | 7:38 pm
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Originally Posted by goldfishman
Why not just ticket on UA and credit miles to CO?
If I can ticket on CO, then I can likely fly only the EAU-ORD leg on UA metal. If I ticket on United, I'll likely be flying the entire itinerary on UA metal.

If I'm going to fly the whole itinerary on UA metal, then there are advantages to being a UA elite instead of a CO elite - higher upgrade priority, better IRROPS help, use of CR-1's, blah blah.

In other words, if I'm going to pretty much always be flying UA, why bother with CO at all?
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