I'm actually fine with this, I was planning on using 4 for my partner traveling solo. I think I read that there were occasionally issues before, if the sponsor wasn't present at check in. So now with her name on it there should be no issues...

Now if LH could just stop the nonsense of not upgrading because of meals not being catered, will LH get any advance notice from UA of passengers intent to upgrade?

Hopefully this is a just a change on the way to this being completely electronic, paper anything in this day and age is somewhat backward.