Originally Posted by
the810
but whether they'd add XP to the the 2027/28 counter is questionable.
They won't.
The XPs will be added with an effective date of the date of the flight - i.e. they will count with a date of 31 March and therefore cannot belong to the current, on-going new Platinum year which will already have started at some April date in advance of the OP claiming for these XPs.
I know this the hard way. I refrained from buying SAF for a return ticket for which the outbound was my final flight of one particular membership year, and the inbound flight was the first flight of my subsequent membership year - I had already reached my maximum XP rollover, so didn't need/want the XPs to count for the year in which I took the outbound flight.
I paid for SAF in advance of boarding the inbound flight - my first flight of my new membership year - but the XPs were still associated with the date of the outbound (which I found unfair). Those XPs were then "lost" to me as they counted for the previous, now-ended year, and for which I had already received the maximum allowed rollover (300XP)
Originally Posted by
the810
The only question I couldn't answer is what happens if you don't credit the March flight, then credit another flight taken in April, bumping yourself to Platinum until April 2027 and only then request credit for the March flight. I'd expect them to not deduct a month from the status you already earned until 04/27
It's not - strictly speaking - a matter of "deducting a month". The new Platinum period will always last for 12 months (plus whatever period runs from the date of the flight that upgraded you to the end of that calendar month). That they make a retrospective decision to change the date when the upgrade in status happened - and therefore change the dates of that new Platinum year - doesn't actually mean that they deduct a month from the status, though clearly in this case the expiry date of the status would move by a month, indeed.
Originally Posted by
the810
No data points from me though, I decided to play it safe and credited a flight to SAS instead to avoid upgrading FB status too early. Part of the motivation to do it was that you can't really use some benefits (e.g. baggage) without having FFN attached to the booking, so if I wanted to employ the strategy above, I'd have to pay for my bag which would cost more than the value of status for month.
This is the problem - we don't know exactly how the system would handle this. I would expect it's automated to correct for such instances and that the membership year dates would be recalculated (if you were sitting down to design an algorithm to encode the process of handling status upgrades, rollovers, etc, it's the only logical outcome)