26k points? Good lord, did you buy a car with the CC or just MS it to death?
(To be fair, depending on what I can extract from it I might be returning some spending to the card...IF AND ONLY IF I manage to seriously run my balance down before the merger. Unless there's some assurance of continued access to VS in the new company via AS, I suspect I'm going to have almost no use for AS points given how spotty "actual" availability ends up being in a lot of cases)