Originally Posted by
heffe76
Just curious... In a CO/UA case, if a passenger has status matched and has points available on UA, couldn't you just transfer the UA points you need over to CO and run the upgrade through OP rather than dealing with *A?
Well, you removed the critical part of my quote there, changing the meaning a bit.
Yes, today the best approach in nearly every scenario is to link accounts, move miles and redeem "home" miles for the upgrade. But if you are redeeming CO miles against UA metal or vv it is a *A move.