Hi All,

I want to get your opinion on increasing the odds of family members or partners getting an upgrade when traveling for leisure on UA. For the most part I travel relatively comfortable when traveling on business (with/without staus). It is when I travel on leisure when I would like my perks to work for me.

My thoughts are as follows when booking a flight on leisure with family - please let me know if it makes sense or can be improved (this is for travel in North America):

Me (Plat/1K) - Buy the ticket (to get the status)
Spouse - use points or buy points enough for the ticket @.02 per mile (I would buy points insteading purchasing the ticket as my status transfers over). In addition as 1K I can redeposit the miles if my trip cancels.
Child 1 - same as Spouse
Child 2 - same as Spouse
(apply RPU whenever possible on non-status members)

This way everyone would have plat/1K status, all members will have a better chance of upgrading over all of us purchasing avg economy tickets, and the cancellation policy is much better.

Does this makes sense? Thanks in advance for you comments.