Originally Posted by
Sea-Wolf
I'm waiting to see how it all shakes out. I figure there's another good year or two before they tackle merging the frequent flyer programs (I don't even think the merger deal has been signed and sealed yet by the regulators) and when they do it's not like what I have will disappear, it'll just get merged into Korean Air. I'm not interested in switching over to them, but I expect that a number of Star Alliance carriers will have some sort of status match offer when it occurs (I believe that's what has happened in past when carriers have exited the alliance) and then I can switch over to a new Star Alliance carrier and just burn off whatever points I have left that are now in Korean Air at my leisure.
I remember when Spanair went bankrupt, some of the other *A carriers offered status matches, but when bmi went into BA and when USAir became American, I don't remember the same thing happening. I think because they retained their status just in a new airline, the other airlines were not so motivated.