I know that we can't make an assumption that an FA will start when we expect it to. Usually I wait for the announcement, but because on Beta we get exactly 48 hours' notice, on this occasion I decided to build my shanty town early so that I wouldn't have a delay in getting my first collections in. My own silly fault, I suppose, but I've created a huge problem for myself in removing all my usual production and burning through about 40 teleports. I've planned to survive for about a week without supplies coming in, but it's starting to feel like I will either need to leave myself destitute and unable to operate, or otherwise rebuild my city now and lose all those teleports.
What this amounts to is - I know this doesn't normally work, but I'd be most grateful to anyone knocking down the devs' door and getting them to say "yeah it's gonna start on Friday" or "we've delayed it by a week because we have new features"... anything really, so I can decide what to do.