Originally Posted by lincolnjkc

Based on them being owned by IAG I personally suspect its only a matter of time before they join OW, although they appear to enjoy their codeshares among members of all of the major alliances so maybe being alliance-less works for their business model. As it is, though the MP earning/burning with EI is already weird enough -- I mean I booked a UA award that included EI on EDI-DUB (part of CLE-ORD-EDI/EDI-DUB-EWR-CLE, all other segments operated by UA) but that same flight wouldn't be eligible to earn MP miles had it been a revenue ticket.