How close to your review date can you leave that final flight that will retain your VA status?
I'm VA Gold with a review date of 10 May 25. SC won't be a problem to retain but I fly mostly international so I'll need some domestic VA flights to make up the 4 eligible sectors.
If I fly my 4th eligible sector (a Choice flight ADL-MEL) on 9 May 25 (yeah, it's cutting it close) to satisfy the status retention, I can see it going two ways:
Scenario A - Eligible sector gets updated to my account on 9 or 10 May (that's good)
Scenario B - Eligible sector doesn't get updated to my account until 11 May or later (that's not good)
So the questions I have for the people more knowledgeable on these things are:
1) Would Scenario A be fine to retain my Gold status? My eligible sector travel history all posted the following day after the flight so I'm confident (but not definite) this will be the likely outcome.
2) For Scenario B, my account would have 500+ SC but only 3 of 4 eligible sectors on the 10 May review date. In this situation, what would happen to my Gold status?