Delivery dates for the new cards [2015-16 transition]
May 20, 2016, 10:15 am
#226
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Just adding a datapoint.
The card of a friend expired APR24 and the new card arrived today, MAY20. New expiry date is APR24 2017. Miles enough for requalification was earned several months earlier.
So the process is unchanged. Cards will only be renewed upon "new years" of your membership year. Validity is set to the exakt day when next membership year ends. Cards are only sent to manufacturing process after a new membership year has started, and takes 4-5 weeks to arrive.
As long as this process is unchanged, every renewing member will be without a valid physical card for around 1 month per year.
The card of a friend expired APR24 and the new card arrived today, MAY20. New expiry date is APR24 2017. Miles enough for requalification was earned several months earlier.
So the process is unchanged. Cards will only be renewed upon "new years" of your membership year. Validity is set to the exakt day when next membership year ends. Cards are only sent to manufacturing process after a new membership year has started, and takes 4-5 weeks to arrive.
As long as this process is unchanged, every renewing member will be without a valid physical card for around 1 month per year.
May 20, 2016, 12:25 pm
#227
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 133
I thought i had an idea what the reason for shortening the status on the card may be. My line of thinking was - maybe, just maybe, Aegean is going to phase out the plastic cards altogether, and switch completely to the digital card - hence the problems with distribution of the new cards will be nonexistent on the next requalification.
Intuition's post brings some doubts to this scenerio, but then again - it's Greece we're talking about after all, so everything is possible ;-)
Intuition's post brings some doubts to this scenerio, but then again - it's Greece we're talking about after all, so everything is possible ;-)
May 23, 2016, 3:19 am
#228
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