Originally Posted by
mke9499
As far as merging accounts, I can see potential problems such as registering with a middle initial for one account, but not the other, using a home address for contact info on one, but work address for the other, different contact phone numbers, etc.; it will be a major project!
It's very difficult to programatically combine lists like that. If you require every single field to match perfectly, there will be many records which should merge but don't. If you don't require every single field to match perfectly, then it's necessarily an imperfect judgement call.
Originally Posted by
mke9499
For the NW/DL merge, there was an incentive of bonus miles for those FF members who voluntarily merged their two accounts, well in advance of the formal transition; this lightened the load at the end of the process for DL.
I had forgotten about that -- I tried twice to merge mine and the process failed both times, so I gave up. It does not sound like there's been a similar effort in the F9/YX world. Perhaps when the accounts are all on a single platform, people with two accounts will have the ability to request a merge at that point if they were not automatically combined.