Originally Posted by channa
UA will do 1 companion, even if on a separate record. It's a bit different from NW's policy now, as NW will no longer do it for someone on a separate record.
I said similar, not the same
... my point is that in practice, UA's system is pretty much the equivalent of NW's given the hoops you have to jump through to get find an agent who will do this (or even knows how to do this) and then to make it stick in the reservation.