Originally Posted by
enviroian
In actuality I doubt many will flee Delta to AA (and AS for what it's worth). After all the grumbling, huffing and puffing most will just stay with Delta as it's too big of a deal to change (its like switching banks). Not much will come of this.
It's actually pretty easy if you get a status match. I've done it a few times.
But flying economy without status is horrible, so it's definitely a lot harder to start from scratch.