Originally Posted by
webslog
8/12 pm update
BNA = 14 Sept. Work the lurk, folks.
8/10 pm update
BNA = 27 September. Another 2 months forward. Might be able to pull this off in time for my Berlin trip in three weeks.
8/9/17 am update
BNA = 10 Nov - another 2-month leap forward. Lurking works. I'm not willing to burn points to fly to another airport to get my KTN before heading out to Berlin.
8/4/17 noon update:
BNA = 19 Jan 2017 - that's two months in two days, and the avails have always shown up around noon-ish (when the center opens). Makes me wonder if the person there is checking some sort of inbox and updating. But I would think that the online scheduling borg handled it automatically. In any case, I'm revising my lurk plan to focus more around the 11am - 1pm hours.
8/3/17 noon update:
BNA = 15 Feb 2017 What's weird is that the calendar appears to only show the Center open 4 hours/day (noon - 4p).
BNA = March 23, 2017
Went out to Interview Center to try walk-in about 45 mins after open. Office was at end of hall, no lights on in hall. Waiting room was locked. Waited in hall for about 20 mins, not a peep. No one in, no one out.
Back to lurking the scheduling calendar.
Work the lurk indeed. I was one of the fortunate ones (SFO) who grabbed a cancellation as soon as it became available
because I refused to accept the mid-2017 selections the system first put me into. I scrolled back to the current month,
selected the following week, and presto, a lone Sunday appointment was available!
Here's my timeline, a rather quick one compared to what I've read so far in this forum:
Applied: 08/02/16
Conditional approval: 08/10/16
Interview (SFO): 08/14/16 @3:30pm
Approval notification email: 08/14/2016 @3:51pm
GE card received: 08/20/2016