Question for AirTran A+Rewards/SW Rapid Rewards merger experts.

[ruadisneyfan2]

We are a family of 4 and belong to both airline's FF programs. We all have a few A+ credits and a couple RR credits under the old plan (besides newly accumulated RR points). I'm trying to find a way to keep the credits from being wasted/expired. I know AT allows people to transfer credits to another AT account for $19/credit.
So is it feasible to have the rest of my family transfer their A+ credits to my AT acct, then transfer those to my SW account? I could then supplement with points to reach a standard award (under the old system).

My family also has some old-system RR credits that can be converted to A+ credits. Could I then pay the $19/credit to transfer those to me?

I've never transferred A+ credits so I don't know if once they're transferred if they have all the flexibility as my own, as if I earned them myself.
They will otherwise go to waste and even with all the transfer fees we'd still have a RT ticket for around $179. We are planning a trip to Cali for summer of 2013. Most flights I'm seeing for this Aug are $220-315 one way.

 

[maciec]

You can transfer between programs freely. I would transfer the A+ credits over to SW and see how much more you have to go before getting your free flight. If you don't like what it says transfer them back along with the RR credits and see if that works better.

I am in kind of the same boat. I had 7.5 A+ credits and I transferred 600 RRs over to AirTran so that I could get to 8. What it looks like I'm going to end up doing is booking us to fly down on SW and back on AirTran. AirTran has better return flights for the return.