Originally Posted by scubaccr

I don't see any reason to think there is two bites at RA. The spend at IC still needs to be the calendar year 1st Jan - 31st Dec nights. If you fall short of the RA spend target during 2018 calendar year it is false to conclude that Jan2019 IC spend would be counted if your 2018 spend is too low for RA level.

Issue with processing on 4th Jan is any 'borderline' cases staying at IC on multinight Xmas-Jan stays into early Jan2019 would not get nights posted and thus counted until maybe Jan 10th at earliest. Thus it makes sense to me that Saltlake delay processing until later in January, and as a consequence set processing as 1st Feb with RA expiry 31st Jan rather than 31st Dec seems very reasonable.

For current RAs who know they won't requalify for 2019, as this is first year with 31st Jan expiry, I would not rely on that RA status to not dissapear mid January onwards. This afterall is why other hotel loyalty schemes whilst using calendar year qualification, process status feb/march, eg Marriott