Knobbgb The thing here is, as Karol100 mentioned, 21.000 (over 90%) of the status miles collected so far, were collected in February from a single r/t flight!
These miles will be subtracted (unless I missed something) in February 2021 for the purpose of obtaining gold, so in this case there are in fact just 7 months to gather whatever is now missing or it's basically back to near-zero (plus whatever sum is gathered until then).
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