Originally Posted by ryane946

Why would an airline want to sell the only thing making them money?? Not only are mileage programs making airlines money, they are incredibly lucrative, and they are probably the one and only reason why ALL SIX of the legacy carriers survived the post 9/11 recession.

I think it would be dump for any airline to dump their frequent flier program. Unless they wanted to buy another legacy carrier (in which case I am all for it).