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Old Sep 22, 2009 | 5:32 pm
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baliktad
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Originally Posted by beckoa
The issue is not the flight posting, but as missydarlin pointed out, the update in SABRE which happens Saturday Night/ Sunday morning... so had your EWR flight been on a Wed, it may have posted soon enough [by Saturday] to be included in the sweep...

Congrads on being soo close baliktad!
Thanks beckoa! I think I understand there are a couple of delays AFTER the flight posts, but I'm still not sure how long it will take for the Friday flight to post in the first place! Most of my flights post sporadically, some a few days later, some a couple weeks later, sometimes not even in chronological order! There seems to be very little rhyme or reason to it at all.

I'm just trying to figure out what delay I can expect after the flight before it actually posts, so I can then add to that the expected delays before I can start taking advantage of MVP benefits. I know it sounds confusing and nit-picky, but I really am excited about 'joining the club'.

I wonder if this same "we'll get to it when we get to it" approach is the same one AS takes when ending MVP status...
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