Tier Point Collection Year end date: which flights count?
Feb 1, 2023, 4:08 am
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Tier Point Collection Year end date: which flights count?
If my Tier Collection Point Year end date is, say, March 1, and I take a flight that starts on March 1, but lands on March 2, does that count to the previous year or the following one? Furthermore, I'm guessing any connecting flights on the same PNR on March 2, would then count to the following year even if the trip commenced on March 1?
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Feb 1, 2023, 4:32 am
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IIRC, it's the take-off date that counts. And, yes, TPs are assigned by sector/date. BUT ... TP year is the 8th of your renewal month, not the calendar 1st.
Feb 1, 2023, 4:36 am
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Tier point years always end on the 8th of a month so this scenario can't arise as written, but flights credit to the year they take off in (or were scheduled to take off in, e.g. a 23:30 departure on the 8th that gets an hour delay and leaves on the 9th will still be treated as the 8th).
Feb 1, 2023, 4:39 am
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Flights taken on the 8th of the month (as T8191 notes, all TP collection years end on a 8th) credit to the current year, ending on that day.
For the purposes of being on the 8th, it is scheduled local departure time that counts, so a flight departing the West Coast of USA in the evening of the 8th will still credit to the existing year, even if it is already the 9th by local time at Heathrow.
Also as noted, this is applied to individual sectors, so if you take off from e.g. SFO on the 8th, and land on the 9th then connect up to GLA, then the long haul gets credited to the previous year, the short haul to the new year.
For the purposes of being on the 8th, it is scheduled local departure time that counts, so a flight departing the West Coast of USA in the evening of the 8th will still credit to the existing year, even if it is already the 9th by local time at Heathrow.
Also as noted, this is applied to individual sectors, so if you take off from e.g. SFO on the 8th, and land on the 9th then connect up to GLA, then the long haul gets credited to the previous year, the short haul to the new year.
Feb 1, 2023, 4:42 am
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So if I fly e.g. LGW-DOH on BA (departure 8th; landing 9th), DOH-DEL on QR (departure 9th) - which is part of the same PNR, do you mean that the tier points from the DOH-DEL leg on the 9th would still be credited to previous year?
Feb 1, 2023, 4:43 am
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Flights taken on the 8th of the month (as T8191 notes, all TP collection years end on a 8th) credit to the current year, ending on that day.
For the purposes of being on the 8th, it is scheduled local departure time that counts, so a flight departing the West Coast of USA in the evening of the 8th will still credit to the existing year, even if it is already the 9th by local time at Heathrow.
Also as noted, this is applied to individual sectors, so if you take off from e.g. SFO on the 8th, and land on the 9th then connect up to GLA, then the long haul gets credited to the previous year, the short haul to the new year.
For the purposes of being on the 8th, it is scheduled local departure time that counts, so a flight departing the West Coast of USA in the evening of the 8th will still credit to the existing year, even if it is already the 9th by local time at Heathrow.
Also as noted, this is applied to individual sectors, so if you take off from e.g. SFO on the 8th, and land on the 9th then connect up to GLA, then the long haul gets credited to the previous year, the short haul to the new year.
Feb 1, 2023, 4:44 am
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edit: further simultaneous posting
Feb 1, 2023, 4:45 am
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No. That's the exact opposite of what happens.
Feb 1, 2023, 4:51 am
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I think martian has got it now. The PNR is just a booking thing, it's the individual sectors that are relevant to TP collecting. So ...
LGW-DOH departing on the 8th credits to current year.
DOH-DEL departing on the 9th credits to the new year.
LGW-DOH departing on the 8th credits to current year.
DOH-DEL departing on the 9th credits to the new year.
Jan 19, 2024, 7:06 am
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I have to fly on the 7th of the month my tier point year ends but want the tier points to be in the following year. F**k my life !!
Jan 22, 2024, 2:55 am
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TP can be credited to the previous year, if earned in the 2 weeks following but there is no way to move them forward into the next year.
Not the news you wanted I appreciate, but it's never been permitted.
Jan 22, 2024, 2:57 am
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Thanks - good opportunity to fly SQ instead then...