As I understand it, Skymiles will be the surviving program, and Worldperks is going away.

So, I'm wondering if asking for an NW status match this fall might be a way to get a "free" status match. Presumably NW status will be grandfathered into Skymiles, but I'm thinking that thsi might not count as having burned the "one time" match for a possible future Delta match.

Of course there is no way to know for sure, and so it would be a gamble. Earlier this year I switched much of my flying to AS & UA. My CO status (earned mainly on BR & VS) has gotten my UGs on NW when flying NW was convenient - but presumably that arrangement will disappear with the merger, and it looks like CO will be out of ST soon as well.

So, I'm thinking that going for an NW match through 2/2010 later in the year may be worth the gamble - get a few MW/DL UGs next year, and hopefully be able to do a "New DL" match "for real" some time down the road of I ever wanted to switch from UA.

Thoughts ?