And a crafty, motivated, agent can always find workarounds that may not necessarily be policy compliant -- two of the most obvious would be admitting someone as the "guest" of a prior scan in, to just hitting the manual door release [in clubs where the gatekeeper is outside of the club proper [may be pmCO clubs only?] and waiving someone in (although too many of these would screw with the club's metrics which drive staffing levels, so it runs counter to the agent's interest). Heck, some of the clubs are arranged such that an agent legitimately may not notice someone 'slipping in'.

IMO, though, workarounds/breakarounds are beyond a last resort -- the policy should be "fixed" first (and admittedly I have maybe 3 trips a year where this policy change would truly affect me, and two of those I could use the original UA boarding pass (before getting bumped to an OAL) if I had to -- but for a paid membership it annoys me.

Out of curiosity, do lifetime UC membership cards differ in some way from the "standard" UC card such that if this exception is in place an agent could distinguish a lifetime membership (sans UA BP) from a standard membership without having to manually dig into the MP profile?