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Old Mar 24, 2026 | 9:42 am
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Originally Posted by irishguy28
Well, at the risk of going well off-topic, because the SAF donation actually has little or nothing to do with the flights, then the "activity date" should never be the date of an outbound flown without making a donation in the previous year, when instead you wait for the inbound and accept one of the lower donation amounts for the inbound flight only instead the following year.

(If you do not accept any of the SAF options ahead of the outbound, which are priced up to account for both outbound and inbound, you are presented with a new, lower, set of SAF options ahead of the inbound, priced up to account only for the upcoming flight)

But FB follows your logic on this.
I'm accepting it as given that "any SAF purchased on a roundtrip is recorded as activity on the outbound" without regard for whether there's any rational basis for that practice (I suppose it's ultimately imposing a light tax on trying to optimize XP earning by nudging folks so inclined toward one-ways and award flights; I guess it's plausible that this is a consequence of Mr. Lipsey being someone who understands the game).
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