Originally Posted by otralot

You'll have to implement the NW switcheroo. What you do is book your NW flights using your Co gold number. Then when you get to the airport you switch to your NW number. NW will continue to recognize gold status throughout the entire Itin and credit miles to NW. Of course once you get NW status you can use the NW number instead. I have been doing this for the ast year with my CO plat. I become NW plat next week, The only thing you lose is fewer bonus milies as you work your way up the food chain.

BTW I do the switch at the kiosk where there is a tab to udate FF#.

It's the clsoes you'l get to a status match.