And he/she would loose 4 CR1s... (possibly also loosing 8 quarterly CR1s).....and be much lower on the upgrade list on UA metal (below 1P and all the golds and plats that merged....when he/she would otherwise be on top as 1k). Merge looks like the best choice to me.

Nope... it should not matter... I have added some examples to my original post... to make this clear.

thats Ok Im still not all that worried, as anyone not living on the WC probably wont fly 1st to LAX or SFO to get to NY, maybe not even a legal connection . So if a person isnt based near JFK it too wont pay and connecting from outside of NY would mean flying to JFK from IAD on a CR200 (only economy)

The ps flights are really only a JFK-LAX/SFO so if not vased in any of those 3 cities or being able to fly into 1 of them , I think a person wouldnt go way out of their just to fly UAs ps. If flying on CO Intl then its out as they would have to get between JFK & EWR on their own dime

so there will be more competition for the UPgrades but nothing I think to lose sleep over

1Ks... might want to post CO flights to MP
 

If you acquired 1k status... one way or the other... you are entitled to 2 CR-1s for every 10,000 BIS (CO and UA flights only), with a max of 2 CR1-s per quarter.

So you want to cross a 10K mark on you UA account within every quarter, in order not to forfeit the CR-1s. (E.g. post 18k the first quarter and 3k the next quarter will early you 2+2 CR-1s.... whereas 3k the first quarter and 18k the second quarter only yields 0+2 CR-1s).

So even if you fly mostly on CO... it might be worth to post miles to you 1k MP account. The drawback is that you as 1k is below Plats on CO metal.

I'm pretty sure that 18/3 would credit the same as 3/18; you'd only get two total.

If you did 15/10 versus 20/5 you'd get more CR1s the first way.

You may be right... the info I used is from FlyerGuide, which may be outdated.... (It has not been updated to include the fact that CO metal flights now counts).

There are no more quarterly roll-overs for CR-1 earning - you actually have to fly the 10K BIS now, not just cross a 10K threshold.

Thanks for the info. When do they post to your account? Is it still the following month? I think I read the tenth the following month somewhere.

1K voice is saying that we won't be getting the quarterly SWUs because we acquired our status in 2011. I'm going back and forth with them now. We'll see, but I'm not very optimistic. I pointed out that I picked UA as my upgrade instrument account because someone from MP CS TOLD me that we would be getting the quarterly SWUs, otherwise I would have picked CO. :mad:

That is a bit of a bummer.... Overall I am quite pleased with the ability to combine accounts, but why treat 1k based on 2010 mileage differently? Obviously they are not very happy handing these extra CR1-s out... didn't they keep them for the transition year, in order to calm the 1Ks down after next years elite program was announced?

The website now reads: "For 2011 1K members (earned as of January 1)"... I presume January 1, 2011. But one could argue that we did earn 1k status based on our 2010 earnings.

Clearly there is some variation in the information we get from UA about this.

The email I got from UA today read:which suggests we will be earning quarterly CR1-s, provided we credit sufficient mileage to our UA account every quarter.

All valid points that I made to the person who was emailing me. The latest response I got was that this was being escalated to the person's supervisor and I would hear back soon. We'll see...

I'm assuming you mean quarterly CR-1s (former terminology) / RUs (new terminology) :) Quarterly SWUs would be awesome yet insane.

2nd Saturday of every month they run a sweep

Bummer... I was hoping to use one on a PS flight on April 7th. I guess I will book myself on CO metal instead... hoping that my 1/7 EUA on SFO-EWR last year was just a crazy outlier.

Here's the latest email from UA, after quite a few back and forths:

Hello Mr. njcommodore,

Thank you for your email.

Members who match to 1K in our program based on Continental status will not be eligible for the quarterly Regional upgrades. They will be eligible to earn Regional upgrades after 75,000 Elite Qualifying miles and for every 25,000 Elite Qualifying miles after during 2011.

If you want to change your decision and make Continental your primary carrier, please let us know right away as it has to be reversed by tomorrow.

It is my pleasure assisting you,
Melissa

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I'm thinking I'll switch back to CO, since that's where 99% of my flying is.

Thoughts?

a merging accounts for dummies question
 

Here's a newbie question: I am CO Gold and have flown CO almost exclusively for 28 years. When I fly other *A airlines, I point the miles to CO.

I have avoided United completely up to now because of its reputation. I did open a United account, but so far have not flown United. I can find CO flights that fit my schedule.

Hence, I'm thinking there is no reason for me to merge accounts. I will just continue to point miles to CO until the merger folks merge the accounts. Make sense?