With the two airlines merging (or DL buying NWA) - is there a possibility of combing the two FF accounts? I have some 20K odd miles in my Delta account and 70K in NWA -- Travel agent snafu and me not being careful enough. It will cost me my NWA gold status as I end the year on 39K.

Anways, looking fwd would I be able to combine the two accounts? The other reason I ask is that I have some 27K Membership Reward points that I can transfer to Delta but don't want to do so unless the two FF accounts will be merged.