I earned EP for 5 years, until 2017 when I moved to a job with much less travel. I occasionally enjoyed EP benefits for that last year, and then in 2018 I dropped to Lifetime Gold.
Mid-year I changed roles again, and I am back on the road. My numbers-to-date, with most of it since July, are:
EQD: 9,699
EQM: 63,823
EQS: 52.5
I was offered a buy-up to Platinum just before I earned it, and I do not currently have an offer to Platinum Pro. MY PPro EQD's are satisfied, and after a trip next week to Grand Cayman, I will be less than 10k EQM shy of PPro.
By the end of this year I will have spent over $40k on my Citi World Elite card, and this should result in an additional 10k EQM.
My question is: When do the EQMs earned from the Citi World Elite card actually count? So if on 12/26/2018 I hit the $40k spend, those EQMs probably won't post until several weeks into 2019. Do the EQMs apply to the 2019 earning year or 2018, resulting in me earning PPro?