Originally Posted by
kcblakely
I'll be buying my wife and daughter some tix to travel HNL->LHR on UA in a few days. I'm a 1P, but they have no status at all, and I will not be travelling with them.
Obviously they wanna check bags, and obviously I'd rather not pay for those checked bags.
Do they really need to check more than one 50 lb bag apiece, the free allowance for North America -> Europe in coach? 50 pounds is a lot of stuff (
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6867,52482,00.html)!
If they need to check 2 bags and don't want to pay the fee, you could get cheap Star Alliance Silver status for them on US Airways (
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-ai...in-2010-a.html ,
http://shopping.usairways.com/promot...M_060910_00955 ), but it would only be good for the next 90 days, and you'd have to buy a nonrefundable US ticket for each of them on or before Sunday, August 15.