Originally Posted by drvannostren

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.



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.