Originally Posted by illesus

Okay, I received status match for Gold last month and I did use it for a paid Swiss economy (S) ticket to get access to the Swiss lounge at ZRH. The problem was that they almost denied the access due to the lack of physical COPA card.
I called COPA CS to request an expedited COPA card delivery and the agent told me that they practically don't know when the card might be available. It can take make months even. I read in another thread that some flyers had success to access United Club w/ United MP number on the boarding pass, but with flashing the card. This would be useful for me.

As it seems that the Gold elite bonus is ONLY valid for tickets flown only on Copa - I think is absolutely ridiculous! Any thoughts on this? In this case there is incentive for me to include my Copa # on paid tickets on *A.