Wow, 44 pages in less than 48-hours. After reading every comment with care and giving careful consideration to my comments....

Really this is not unexpected although the exact details and timing have been fuzzy. People belong to a specific FF program for a variety of reasons. My reasons are my personal travel needs flying DCA-BOS about 35-40X per year. Add in work travel for another 25 trips domestically and 2/3 international. So I hoard my miles through one program so that I can redeem miles for the trip I want when I want. I redeem about 250K per year and bank about 300K with travel, bonus, CC, etc.

Because of my needs for flexibility with the AA Shuttle, I will continue to loyAAl and adjust to the changes. YMMV.