Originally Posted by ron187

I just recently (in Nov.) hit Gold with UA. I'm flying on a couple inter-europe flights with TP in the next week, but am getting worried because the TP agents claim they can't let me pre-select my seats because the system says I'm not *G. United says this is an error on TP's end, and TP claims the problem is on UA's end. I wouldn't be too worried about this if I had my actual United Gold card, but they haven't shipped it yet because it is so early in the year.

Any advice or help would be appreciated! Really just want to make sure I get lounge access and free checked bag.