<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ender83:
In regard to the point about NW, was AS partnered with them before AA or the other way around?</font>
Long long before. I was earning NW miles for AS flights in the early/mid '90s. AA's partnership with AS came about after AA started to dismember the QQ operations which competed with AS. Definitely no AA partnership before late '90s.