Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer (Post # 105)
I am a Premier Silver. My wife and adult son are General Members with the Quest and Explorer cards, respectively. . . .
This new Mileage Pooling program seems best suited to families with some accounts containing miles that are effectively "orphaned"'.
This does not apply to us.
Originally Posted by
JimInOhio (Post # 106)
Here's how it could benefit someone in this situation: . . . .
It sounds like it can be used as a way to transfer miles to someone else, for the purpose of buying a ticket they otherwise couldn't, without "paying" to do so.
We don't have any orphaned miles, but this indeed seems to be the targeted passenger profile.
Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
The potential advantage could have been XN access for the non-elites, but in this case those credit cards also offer XN access
The secondary benefit is if the want to book an award but have insufficiency miles and you would rather not to front them the entire amount from your account. Pooling is useful for multiple low earners to more efficient use of their miles.
Yes.
Efficient use of orphaned miles, along with free transfer of less than a full award to someone, is clearly the primary benefit.
Sharing the award availability shown the highest pool member to all members seems very important indeed.
Neither applies to my situation, as we all have miles for full awards (and I have no hesitation to issue them in their names from my account) and, as noted, their UA credit cards give them the same XN access as my Premier Silver membership.
But this will be helpful to the targeted pax.
