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Old Feb 21, 2018, 1:55 am
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scubaccr
 
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Amsterdam, Asia, UK
Programs: IHG RA (Spire), HH Diamond, MR Platinum, SQ Gold, KLM Gold, BAEC Gold
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Originally Posted by Pseudo Nim
I must be the only one completely nonplussed about the new expiry. Why are all of you so excited? You do realise they're going to simply procrastinate until Feb 10 to tell us if we renewed, right? So it'll be exactly the same thing as before but a month later. I guess I should be happy we got a free month of RA for those who won't renew, heh?
Or maybe... Saltlake having calculated all RA renewals for Calendar Year 2019 sometime between 1st-15th Jan 2019 may then remove RA flag/status 2weeks or so early from those 2018 RA's who fail to requalify.

I will be dropping my RA status going forwards after this current 2018 year, but may stay during Jan2019 month if RA keeps flagged to 31stJan. I am not bothering to renew my RA going forwards as I find the new program +2cat/foc-lounge worse than the previous Club/Exec/Suite as I now find I am having to pay more for the costlier clubroom booking over a previous years lesser room cat to get the good suite rooms I enjoyed pre Sep2016 changes.... an especially bitter pill paying for lounge which is now included for RAs.

Yes there are still good IC's if booking Club as RA, eg IC KUL (Club Room -> Ambassador Suite) but I typically only stay there only on overnighting with MH airline transfers. imho I might as well be Ambassador and book Club Room at some IC's, so will for 2019 onwards, and can then stay a bit more at MR and HH
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