United Changes Star Gold Baggage Allowance

Updated: September 30, 2021

Published: October 22, 2013

Based on the checked baggage tool on United’s website, it appears they’ve changed the checked baggage policy for Star Alliance Gold members.

Previously Star Alliance Gold members could check up to three bags weighing up to 70 pounds each, as is still the policy for Premier Gold members and above.

However, suddenly the baggage tool shows that Star Alliance Gold members are only allowed one checked bag weighing up to 50 pounds on domestic itineraries.

So they’ve not only reduced the number of permitted checked bags for Star Alliance Gold members by two, but have also decreased the weight limit by 20 pounds.

Best I can tell there was no announcement, aside from this message posted at the top of the checked baggage tool:

We have revised some of our checked baggage policies for travel worldwide. For the latest checked baggage updates, please review all relevant baggage pages before you travel.
Updated: October 17, 2013

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AC New Member

October 23, 2013, 11:10 pm

wow the no 1 free checked bag for UA flights with star alliance silver really kills the Aegean deal for me too.. was thinking of accumulating the 4k miles for aegean blue / *A silver but without the 1 free baggage there seems to be no point anymore.. looks like i have to consider if i want *A gold to at least get one free bag domestically and up to 3 for international flights.

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Sam Guest

October 23, 2013, 4:27 pm

well, employees and retirees still get 2 bags at 50 pounds for free. I guess taking care of customers is trumped by taking care of ourselves.

gobluetwo Guest

October 23, 2013, 10:26 am

What's funny is that for GlobalFirst, *G gets 4 bags, whereas the calculator shows 3 bags for everyone else, including GS!

Christoph Guest

October 23, 2013, 7:50 am

@Tom: sorry to say, but complete nonsense from the US agent; award tickets are handled the same as a paid one... Well, typical US agent ;-))

david New Member

October 23, 2013, 7:48 am

we got an alert from our travel company at work (Tower Travel) that they made the changes on October 17. The changes highlighted are star gold now gets 4 bags (as opposed to 3) in international F and 2 bags (as opposed to 3) in international Y. Also, domestic Y now gets 1 (as opposed to 3) and Star Silver domestic Y now gets 0 (as opposed to 1). hope this helps!

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