Originally Posted by
cepheid
The OP didn't ask about gold boarding passes, he asked about gold boarding pass covers. The covers are usually not given to 1P/2P (though they sometimes are, as I mentioned earlier) and have no bearing on priority boarding..
Are you sure that this has ever been the case? I fly UA reasonably often as LH SEN - and hence *G level and therefore <= 1P @ United - and I
always get the golden covers and BPs.
I hence find it hard to grasp that 1P should not get them.