The long hold mantra is that airlines do not normally encourage intra-alliance "defections". However some posters on this thread seem to have succeeded, while others say it cannot be done. Hence does anyone have any recent experiences of moving to UA from a *A member, other than US?

I flew about 60k miles on UA in 2007 (posting to BD&OZ) and will do about the same in 2008. The trips are all for leisure, so will be in the cheapest seats I can get. I could of course earn 1P the hard way, but I wouldn't get the E+ access or the 100% RDM bonus while I did it(which would be enough for an extra Saver award to the US) .

As a low rev passenger, do you think I stand a chance of being offered the challenge? Of course, I could just wait until 2nd Jan and then email UA to find out.......