beckoa

A SDC *should* work in this case as the flight is past 10 PM... but two issues: Flights to/from ANC are *full* around the holidays. So there may not be space on a later flight. Second, this is in late December. I would not be surprised to see another schedule change

Best of luck.

soartoday

Thanks for the responses! I'm actually trying to make sure that the flight *does* credit to the current/prior year, even though it lands in 2019. Hopefully no SDC needed!

angelamartinusa

There is no harm in contacting AS. However, as far as I know, that would be of no avail.

PABE

It is based on time zone of departure. I've taken the KOA-SEA redeye and it posts on the date you departed Hawaii.

nearlysober

Given that you want the miles to post in 2018 you could try emailing customer service asking if they would please confirm that the miles will post based on the planned departure time, regardless of any delay.

Then, for what its worth, you at least have confirmation of their policy in writing if something goes wrong.

In 2016 I hit MVPG based on a new years eve flight home (early in the day) and it will take a few days for the status to post so there will be a gap in your status. For me it meant i dropped down to MVP for a couple days, but that didn't impact any of my existing bookings/seats.


One nice benefit was my GGU codes posted in Jan 2017 with an expiration of Dec 2018 since they're good through the end of the next year. Given how hard it can be to find GGU space, it was nice having a two year window

Single_Flyer

Apologies in advance; I did a search and couldn't find the answer.

I'm looking at a flight that leaves Hawaii early evening of December 31 and lands early morning of January 1 (12:30am PST). Anyone know if those EQM will count towards 2021 or 2022 for elite qualification?

jerry a. laska

Your departure date and time is determinative; doesn’t matter what date you land.
Post 13 of this thread is still correct.

mtofell

Anyone know if this is local time of flight departure? Or, time the airline generally operates under for sales, cutoff dates, etc.??

jerry a. laska

The time of departure from the airport that you are departing; not the time in some other city or somewhere else where you are not departing from.

Clearedfortravel

I’m taking a Cathay pacific flight that leaves HKG Jan 1 2023 but arrives in US Dec 31 2022… If the flight counts toward my 2022 Alaska elite status, I’ll hit MVP Gold 100 status. Unfortunately, my dates aren’t flexible. Does alaska use departure time or arrival time to determine elite eligibility? I’d assume departure time, but given the weird time zone issues I’m wondering what they’ll do in my case.

jrl767

what’s to wonder about?

as mentioned at least once upthread, the time and date *AT THE POINT OF ORIGIN* govern

this flight will *NOT* credit to 2022 since it *DEPARTS HKG* on 1 Jan 2023

Clearedfortravel

Well I was wondering because my example isn’t exactly the same as any of the examples above: I land in the US in 2022. I don’t think any of the examples above involve traveling back to the previous year and landing in the previous year. I’d have thought there’d be a common sense exemption for a case like this but sounds like not.

jrl767

departure time governs

period. dot. end of story.

Mwenenzi

And generally means scheduled departure and not actual departure, which could be after midnight (at least in the ffp's I have looked at)

VibeGuy

It’s definitely based on scheduled departure, having had this happen on a delayed SEA-LAX 31DEC flight a few years back.