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Old Jul 8, 2019, 4:50 am
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Join Date: Nov 2017
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Originally Posted by nzkarit
Though out of the thousands of people gaining or just missing out on status each year are crossing the date line near their anniversary date and relying on it crediting just so to make status?

I suspect a low a number?

It must be cheaper to let a person on the phone talk to them than it is to document the business rules then, write and test the code to handle (what I believe to be) a corner case.
Probably! I don't really mind, it's just good to know if you are one of the corner cases like us that fly to the USA regularly.

For regular USA work flyers like me, we often have events we attend that happen at similar yet slightly different dates each year. So it makes sense that for us, we would be be accruing SP around a similar time each year. If one of your regular trips was how you bumped over that threshold, you can book your flights accordingly... Or beg Air NZ to wait a day or two 😜
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