July 11 - Called up to see whats going on and told rep that i have travel coming up in 10 days . Rep says current processing times are taking long time . So i had to expedite and also requested to put a note about my travel plans . Payed via credit card.
July 15 - credit charged and status updated with passport being printed
July 17 - Printed and got tracking number
July 18 - passports got delivered.

Always had our passports got renewed under 3 weeks with routine processing .But this time , even after 4 weeks no status change.