Thanks for the advice - LH seem a bit funny - last year I had 2 tickets -an online purchase and a star europe airpass - used the flights in conjunction on both tickets to get to tel aviv - agent at SKG chked my bag thru to TLV - the pts from SKG-ATH went to UA as planned but the ATH-TLV pts went to LH - really really weird since all I did was look at the booking on the LH.COM website (since I had purchased both my intercontinental LH ticket and my star europe airpass direct from the LH callcentre in Australia, and the booking showed my UA flyer# as the active #) and my A3 bordpass had my UA # on it
Ill try the first thing and if it seems a bit akward change things at chkin