After seriously considering SK (as I wrote about some pages ago), I finally made my decision today to move into CO/UA. The main reason for doing this is that TK is offering some really good V-fares GOT-ICN and I just bought a couple of roundtrips with them. Beside TK it appears as if only UA will offer 100% credit for these fares (and these V-fares cost 600 EUR compared to a 100% earning fare with SK which is 950 EUR so in total I save more than 1200 EUR).

The reason I went for CO/UA is (a) some odd 16k+ miles I have with them since the old pre-Star CO-days and (b) that TK miles expire after 3 years which is really short. The 1MM long-term future is also appealing.

My only problem now is the 4 paid flights with CO/UA requirement, for the moment I only have 2 paid flights with them booked this year, if bad comes to worse I will do a quick ICN-NRT run but I will first write a letter asking for a status match of my BD Gold once we know what will happen. I have already requalified for next year so I guess my new BD card will come more or less at the same time as the program is discontinued... sigh...