Originally Posted by
cova
Since nearly the beginning of the year, you have been able to get credit on your choice of AA or US FF program when flying either AA or US.
If you have status on one - the you should be crediting the EQM to that airline. I think AA provided enough warning. Pick one airline and put all AA and US flights into that one account.
Why would you in 2014 put some miles in one account and some miles in a different account (unless you are high elite status on both airlines).
Exactly - if you're elite on both, then you'd want to get those elite benefits when traveling on each airline, and elite benefits ate not (yet?) completely reciprocal. But yes, if you're elite on only one or none, there's no real disadvantage to picking one program. Except maybe if you need to top up one or the other for a partner redemption since the partners are still different.