Well, it worked!!! I applied in January and a bunch of flights from last year got credited to this year for km accumulation and elite status recognition. Not straightforward, the actual flights get posted into last year but the km get credited to this year, sort of messy. Didn't do the same for the segments but I need not argue about that, always have lots of segments. So I got a 20k km kick-start to making Comodoro again this year (actually just after end of March jeje).