Originally Posted by sefrischling
My question is not who takes over ATL, but a more personal question.
If Delta goes the way of Eastern, Western, TWA & Pan Am will anyone be picking up our miles and status? I have a lot of miles sitting untouched and 11 itinteraries booked and waiting as far out as October at this point.
I don't want to lose all my miles and waste a lot of time making my butt numb to get back up the status ladder to make sure I have my choice of seats and a less numb butt if something unpleasent should happen to my airline of choice.
The only companies I can see to be powerful enough to take over their routes are AA and CO. Since CO already has a large international presence, my guess would be that AA would pick up alot of DL's internation routes that CO already has (i.e. TLV). ATL would probably "STLized" and destroyed into a "focus city" like STL. AA might pick up the DL Shuttle since they have large presences at BOS and LGA, bigger than CO. NW, UA, and US are all too weak to really do anything.
However, I don't think DL will fold. They have billions in assets and are no worse than UA looked at its worst.
In terms of those miles, I'm sure some airline will take over them. I think that the worst possible scenario is that CO will get them as OnePass is so bad.