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What Year Does a Late-Night NYE Flight Credit To?

What Year Does a Late-Night NYE Flight Credit To?

Old Oct 28, 2015, 12:05 pm
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What Year Does a Late-Night NYE Flight Credit To?

My family is booked on an AS flight that departs the east coast at 6:30ish pm ET on 12/31, and lands on the west coast some 6+ hours later. So it will land in the New year ET, but in the current year locally (PT).

None of use can use the 2,300 EQM for a status bump in 2015. I've thus very much prefer to see it apply for 2016 status.

Is it worth asking someone in the AS system whether they could do that for us, or am I wasting my time trying? TIA for any pertient help or experience!
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 12:06 pm
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Crediting is generally based on when a flight takes off. I doubt you can get that changed by asking.
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 12:25 pm
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Originally Posted by LwoodY2K
Crediting is generally based on when a flight takes off. I doubt you can get that changed by asking.
This. Time of departure is controlling.

Logically, also makes sense, since most of your "miles flown" would have been in 2015 anyway. Even if AS could break it down to what miles you flew in which year (they can't), the vast majority would be in 2015. So you'd be asking AS to give you credit all the miles for 2016 based on the vast minority of the flight flown in 2016, which doesn't make sense anyway.

tl;dr = no.
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 12:52 pm
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You are asking if a flight departing on 12/31/15 and landing on 12/31/15 will credit for 2016? No, I'm afraid not.
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 1:33 pm
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Originally Posted by AKLifetimeFlyer
You are asking if a flight departing on 12/31/15 and landing on 12/31/15 will credit for 2016? No, I'm afraid not.
Good catch, I did the time zone conversion incorrectly in my head.

Definitely not worth calling in about.
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 3:22 pm
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Thanks for replying everyone!

As my OP implied, I did figure this would be a longshot in any case, but had not heard that time of departure is generally controlling.

I will say that as a new MVP Gold 75k, I have had AS make exceptions to the "letter of the law" before when I've asked. One of the things I appreciate about the airline.
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 4:15 pm
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just curious. Is it based on original scheduled departure time or actual? Say you have the SEA-ANC that departs at 1130pm and its delayed to say 1205am? Or the ANC-ORD that leaves at 1155pm but actually departs 1210am? would it credit to Dec 31 2015 OR Jan 1 2016
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 4:20 pm
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scheduled
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Old Oct 28, 2015, 5:12 pm
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Originally Posted by DaveH
Is it worth asking someone in the AS system whether they could do that for us, or am I wasting my time trying? TIA for any pertient help or experience!
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Old Oct 29, 2015, 9:08 pm
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What are these NYE flights like? Festive?
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Old Oct 29, 2015, 9:20 pm
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What are these NYE flights like? Festive?
No not really
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 4:18 pm
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Old thread, but wondering if anyone has more recent experience or data points for AS.

Looking at a red-eye flight that departs Anchorage 11:55PM on December 31, 2018. Will it credit to 2018 based on scheduled departure time in local time zone (even though it will be 2019 already in PST?
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by soartoday
Old thread, but wondering if anyone has more recent experience or data points for AS.

Looking at a red-eye flight that departs Anchorage 11:55PM on December 31, 2018. Will it credit to 2018 based on scheduled departure time in local time zone (even though it will be 2019 already in PST?
no change ... scheduled departure time governs; this flight will credit to 2018
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Old Sep 22, 2018, 10:04 pm
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Originally Posted by jrl767

no change ... scheduled departure time governs; this flight will credit to 2018
Thanks!
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Old Sep 23, 2018, 2:40 am
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i'm not sure if this is correct, but i thought in the past that in the cases of redeye flights you might be able to same day change across a calendar date. for instance, if you were scheduled to fly at 11pm and there was another option at 1am, you could change to that if seats were available and you paid the fees. but i can't find the language on the website anymore so maybe that was changed. so if you really wanted to have flights credit in the new year and you could execute this type of SDC, this would be one option to make it happen provided your city pair has multiple redeye frequencies, which of course really only applies to a very small number of cities.
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