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Old Mar 18, 2020 | 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Fabo.sk
Personally, I would think the better solution at this time, instead of playing with the requal criteria, would be to just freeze the calendar for the duration, and then move everyones qualification period up for however long the freeze lasted - if it's three months then three months, if the air travel crisis continues on, then 6 months, 9 months, as appropriate.
Yes, that is sensible. The effect of COVID-19 is, in effect, to freeze flying so it would make a lot of sense to freeze the calendar for at least as long as there is virtually no flying. While this will prolong everybody's status, it would be pretty much costless in itself to AFKL as virtually no one will be using any of the benefits of status during the period as virtually no-one will fly.
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