I would hope so. It never made sense to me why they would change it in November, when the Avis First year ends and restarts at the turn of the year. It would make a lot more sense to have a clean year end with Avis First and on Jan 1 start the new program, instead of switching programs so near the end of the year.

I am confused as to what status I will be, because they haven't explained if the status qualifications will change, and meanwhile I won't qualify for Avis First until the last days of December (after a week-long Christmastime rental). It seems much simpler therefore, since Avis First status qualification went Jan 1 - Dec 31, to keep Avis First going through Dec 31.

Of course, I don't know if they realized this, or just ran into problems they didn't anticipate and are delaying for some other reason.