United added an interesting new benefit this morning (courtesy of the 1K website) whereby 1K and Global Services members can now take up to eight family members into Economy Plus. That's right, EIGHT! That means your spouse, Bobby and Jane, Aunt Martha, Uncle Otis, Grandma Iris, Grandpa Marvin, and Great Grandma Gertrude (no offense to…
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8 seems like alot to me too. While sponsoring a family member into E+ is one of the nice benefits of having some FF UA status, it seems more reasonable to me if UA would have made a sliding scale for the number of pax a status flyer could sponsor into E+, perhaps something along the line of Premier=1 (the current allowable number for all FF status levels ), Premier Exec=2, 1K=4 and GS=6/8.