Best of luck with your status matching efforts. I have a feeling that Southwest will bend the elite qualification rules to keep as many AirTran customers as possible.
Perhaps, then again, whereas FL elite gives a different in-flight experience, plain old A-list doesn't really seem to do much to improve, except maybe giving you a better shot at an exit row seat. I guess that is worth a good bit to me, but compared to FL where I have assigned exit row and space available J, it's just like being a kettle on the legacies in the old days. Oh well, FL was fun while it lasted.