Originally Posted by
randomasian
I have an upcoming UA flight that's enough for me to maintain Asiana status through 2027. But I'm also tempted to start crediting all my UA flights to UA to move towards million miler over there. I figure it's easy enough for me to make up the remaining Asiana miles in 2025 when things are more clear if I need to.
A problem I have is that I'd want my checked bag and lounge perks from Asiana status for my UA flights which tend to be booked as round trips. Does anyone have experience mixing and matching like this? Ideally, I'd want to check in to get my perks, then change just that first leg to credit to UA. Then, I'd keep the Asiana number on the return leg and also change it after checking.
UA has started getting squeamish about what they deem "double dipping." Lounge is the easiest thing to get in, but I did have a little trouble two months ago in IAH, I still got in though. Checked bag I never had to worry about because I was *G with both so I had baggage benefits. But I do know it can be harder to get the agent to honor that.