I called in today to see about status match (from DL PT) and was informed that "as of yesterday" AA was no longer matching status from other carriers.

Perhaps others can confirm this independently, but it came as a bit of a shock to me that AA would forego the opportunity to poach business from a competitor.

I'm not the world's biggest account, but I do generate well over 100K miles annually to parts of the world that are just getting additional attention (used to be that Delta/Aeroflot were the only carriers to Moscow from the USA, but now UA, AA, Singapore and Transaero carry as well).

I was looking forward to having an option other than SkyTeam.