Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
No dates have published yet. Will take months or years. Keep looking here
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...solidated-733/ for updates on the US AA merger. Anyway on March 31 US Airways joins OneWorld, so I expect you will be able to burn miles on QF, BA, etc. The US Airways earn/burn rate will be of interest. United & Continental had a similar merger some time ago. Took a long time to merge the ffp's.
As you rightly note, it took a while before UA and CO merged their FF programs. But they had a transitional period during which it was possible to transfer miles between the two programs. It's not yet clear if AA and US will have a similar transitional period at some point.