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.
I did this to get to OZ. I was crediting flights to OZ on my BP but using SQ star gold benefits for lounge access. 99.9% of the time, I got no pushback. If I had to check a bag I’d just walk up to the elite desk and flash my card, I flat out told them what I was doing on multiple occasions. Same with boarding. I’d walk up with my group 5-6 BP and flash my gold card if I really needed to board promptly. There was a little pushback there but I’d just say my number wasn’t attached or whatever and they’d let me through.
the ONE time I had an issue was at IAH united club. She was so certain I couldn’t access the lounge without having my number present on my BP. I argued that switching FFPs would be impossible then because there would be a year of no benefits for no reason. In the end she attached my SQ number and then once I was in the lounge I just detached it and added the OZ one in the app. FWIW this is basically what I do now. My standby benefits don’t allow me to add my OZ number so every lounge I go to they manually let me in with a combination of my BP and my gold card. It takes a couple minutes and some agents play dumb but in the end I always get in.
Originally Posted by
SightseeMC
If you have a lot of UA flights coming up, I'd just finish getting OZ *A now and move other flights later. The most you're "out" is whatever miles you took on that one UA flight. I'd imagine it's easy to get those later, and having *A Gold now might turn out to be wise, if KE gives little to no heads up.
id piggyback on this and say it would depend on the flights. Like if you need 5,000 for OZ extension, but have a flight worth 10,000 coming up, don’t put it to OZ. Stay as tight to the line while still going over as you can. Then credit everything else to UA.