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That is an informative article. "Isom said he expected US Airways during those first six months to transition to Oneworld from the Star Alliance. " That would not be bad for us, especially if my wife wants to earn TAM miles by flying US, as they'd both likely still be in Star at that point (both will move to Oneworld, US as a result of its merger with AA, and TAM as a result of its merger with LAN, moving to Oneworld sometime earlyin 2014). We could still opt for AA on that trip, but will know our options of miles.

Hope the merger is easier than that of UA and Continental, which led to many problems on computer systems and elsewhere, especially on the actual day of the final merger, and days (weeks?) afterwards. At CLT, we saw UA agents working mightily to deal with angry passengers in the midst of computer system problems.