Was it sad that my first thought was "So how much are we going to lose from Mileage Plan?" . Joining an international partnership sounds great on the surface, but I feel like this may be part of AS pivoting to function even more like the bigger airlines when it comes to their FF program. I'd expect at a bare minimum that qualification tiers are going to go up. I would have been far happier if they got back with their Girlfriend Delta and that was the marriage.