Yes, "in the meantime AA looks mighty attractive..."

There's a thread on UA's RDM change on the AA forum, and the majority (though not unanimous) consensus over there is that the new combined AA(+US) FFP will be awarding revenue-based RDM just like DL and UA by 2016 or so, after a whole bunch of disgruntled ex-DL and ex-UA people have gotten invested and entrenched at AA.