I wasn't trying to suggest anything sneaky or fraudulent. I haven't seen anything in the rules forbidding it (and what's so special about government employees?). I run my own business so I could have one account for business flights, and one for personal.

I guess it all comes back to a couple of discussions we've had here before - why fly more than 100K on UA/year - why not switch to a different carrier and obtain equivalent status and accrue their benefits. This gives twice the bang for the bucks and moreover a great deal more options in flying. This however is not in UAs best interest. Secondly, UA has no published benefits for flyers who do more than 100K/year, so what's the incentive?

I see Punki's point about being a *no-status* for a while on the second account, but that's the same as if you were to start from scratch on a new carrier. At least with 2 accounts on UA you could gift yourself those *other* SWUs fairly easily, but I guess it would be slightly more difficult to transfer e-upgrades to *yourself.*

John

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From a kiwi who can fly!


[This message has been edited by SoFlyOn (edited 08-12-2002).]