Originally Posted by RealHJ

It seems that everyone here pretty much is assuming that come Oct 1st, WorldPerks murder date, nwa.com award reservations will be no more.

But, at the same time, we are sure and know for a fact that nwa.com will still operate and 012 tickets will be still issued until the Single Ops Certificate (spring 2010 likely). So, we know that revenue tickets will be still sold on nwa.com into early 2010 at least.

And also isn't it that DL will be using the NW back-end loyalty management program, so actually SkyMiles is being transferred over to the NW back-end loyalty program (and not vice versa), isn't it?

If both of these things are true, then I would interpret things such as on delta.com to mean that BOTH DL.COM and NW.COM award ticketing engines will be still running concurrently until early next year. The only difference is that instead of logging in with our 9 digit WP number we will log in with our 10-digit SM number into NWA.COM as of Oct 1st (as the back-end loyalty program stays the same as it is now, isn't it?). So instead of transferring miles WP to SM or vice versa as we could do up to end of August (to make award bookings on NW or DL), now it will be the same log-in to DL.COM ad NW.COM, but both sites operating still their respective revenue and award booking engines separately.

Also, this is what NW CS told me yesterday, which also seems to further re-enforce this:
Again it implies that NWA.COM award booking engine will remain as is (just not sure will it be populated with the far higher DL award level mileage levels (which are NOT displayed online, for the most part) or not -- hopefully the not-too-bright DL management don't do that, they seem to be so clueless as not to even be aware of the gaping up-to-two-fold disrepancies in mileage award levels between the two programs), just that we will need to use the SM # instead of WP # to log into it.

To me, that is how I read it. Or am I wrong and missing something? (Or may be it's just wishful thinking, wishing that far-superior-to-DL-in-[almost]every-way NW award booking engine stays up for at least a few months longer.)