Originally Posted by
mmaster737
Here's the information US provided in response to my "lifetime" miles inquiry:
US Airways lifetime flight miles are accumulated from the start date of your Dividend Miles account as long as your account remains active. Only credited flight miles on US Airways owned and operated flights (this includes previous flight miles on PSA, Piedmont, and America West) count toward Million Miler status. Bonus miles, preferred mileage bonus, class of service bonus miles and flights on partner airlines do not count.
If US can indeed tell which are your flight miles and which are your bonus miles, given that AA has for 2 years only counted flight miles towards MM status, I would think they would count only those US flight miles for a lifetime MM combination when accounts eventually get merged. I doubt what AA "used to do but stopped doing in 2011" has any effect on what they'll do in in 2014 (or 2015). Maybe everyone will be pleasantly surprised but I'd keep expectations down.
When Reno and TWA miles were moved over, they counted all those miles towards lifetime AA miles, but at that time AA counted EVERYTHING so it didn't matter.