You are entirely correct....But my question goes to at what point to we start drifting to English that resembles something of a smaller time frame than

"they are well over half done . . . and expect to have the balance done within a couple of weeks"

I mean  - a couple of weeks is a couple of weeks, and if you say it for a couple of weeks, then you probably should have said a couple of months, because if we are still saying a couple of weeks, a couple of weeks from now, I think there will be a march on willow run!!!  lol

Any explanation you want to through out there is great, but even the FAA probably has a hard stop on this for their purposes....  And given that Baltia has had a couple of weeks for a couple of years, I would think that there were many more t's that did not require crossing.... or at least one would hope...so there are a couple of points here that a couple of comments eliciting a couple of more responses would  provide a couple of more user counts so we could advance a couple of more pages in a couple of lists...  before we get a couple of more "we are pumped" at HQ comments for the next couple of days....