Originally Posted by
garykung
Here is my guess - this is a response to Chase.
If you transfer UR to UA, you will still be subject to the standard 18-month expiration policy. But if your miles is earned directly with UA (including cobrand credit card), your miles will no longer expire...
If this is the case, I don't understand how they could separately keep track of UR miles versus UA-earned miles in an account, short of implementing entirely new software to recognize and track two different flavors of miles. At the moment these two earnings are invisibly co-mingled.