Wifey and I are planning a holiday trip to Europe. We both have enough miles in our own to be able to afford Business class seats.

This should seem simple right, we each use our own miles to buy our ticket.

We can do this, however, we cant have our planes on the same itinerary. We talked to the mileage plus phone rep and she said this is united policy and if we want to be on the same iterary the miles have to come from the same account.

Has anyone else had experience with this? I still find this very hard to believe.