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One thing to consider: if you don't need the RDMs back in your account immediately, why not just cancel the PNR and then hang onto the ticket number? You have up to 1 full year from the original date of ticket issuance to use the award. If you end up needing to fly the exact same routing sometime during that year, then you can apply the old ticket # to the new PNR with no change fee (because it counts as a "date or time change" under the MileSAAver flight award rules).
Then, if 364 days have passed since the original ticket issuance date and you haven't had occasion to use the award, you can redeposit it and pay the fee. Nothing lost. Redepositing it today costs the same as redepositing it right before the time frame expires.
One thing to consider: if you don't need the RDMs back in your account immediately, why not just cancel the PNR and then hang onto the ticket number? You have up to 1 full year from the original date of ticket issuance to use the award. If you end up needing to fly the exact same routing sometime during that year, then you can apply the old ticket # to the new PNR with no change fee (because it counts as a "date or time change" under the MileSAAver flight award rules).
Then, if 364 days have passed since the original ticket issuance date and you haven't had occasion to use the award, you can redeposit it and pay the fee. Nothing lost. Redepositing it today costs the same as redepositing it right before the time frame expires.
That is what a friend has done. In November he cancelled their J awards SFO to HKG, but he would try to fly in March. That is, of course, if he can find seats on CX. I dont recall exactly which is which but the Transpac is on CX one way and on JL the other via NRT.
