Originally Posted by
dayone
At the risk of (once again) sounding like an AS apologist, my past understanding is that AS' acquisition of these SWUs is a one-time batch issuance by AA. In other words, AS has to wait until it finalizes its list of 100K/75Ks before it can request the codes from AA, then confirm the account matching after it receives them. Since we're talking about two dinosaur IT environments, I think the minimum turnaround time would be 60 days, so 100 days doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. YMMV.
Which if true makes the decision to limit them to calendar year even worse. AA own SWUs can be applied for much longer and get to members quicker. So by the time AS elites get them it’s already a massive disadvantage.