Originally Posted by
Antarius
When UA and CO merged, the OnePass Plus card became a Mileageplus card. As a result, the people I knew with cards from both places ended up with two identical credit cards.
Poor analogy. Tne OnePass cards and the MileagePlus cards were already with the same bank (Chase), so it was easy to merge them.
A better analogy would be NW and DL. NW was with US Bank, DL with Amex. Amex won out. NW cards were replaced by US Bank with FlexPerks cards:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...er-thread.html
which is a bank-specific points program (roughly analgous to Citi ThankYou points or Capital One's Venture "miles", in that its points are not transferable to any other programs;
not analogous to Chase's Ultimate Rewards because UR points
are transferable to several airline and hotel programs if you hold the "right" UR card).
Now, just because NW and DL are a good analogy for what the situation was coming in, doesn't necessarily mean the same outcome. But AA and US are obviously not in the "same bank" situation that UA and CO were, so there's no one "most obvious" solution the way there was with UA and CO.