His true colors would have to be new colors in this case, because he has never made any truly radical changes to any frequent flyer programs that I can remember. Even when he took over US, I can't remember any huge devaluations, just a couple of aspects of the HP program folded in (like the 75K tier). Service offerings and product quality -- yes, but frequent flyer program -- no.

Whatever the future brings (2016+), I expect to be more of a response to what other airlines are doing than Parker's joy of cutting something.