My brother and his fiance are going to Italy for a 3 month Honey Moon before their wedding in September. He called me today and asked for suggestions on how to make the flights as cheap as possible to maximize their cash to be spent in Italy as they are used to Y travel. I turned their simple NYC-ROM flight into a mini MR with a stop over in Dublin on the way back for my brother's birthday. The response to the email I sent with the details and mileage total got a simple response "At first I thought you went crazy, but thanks for giving us a free trip to Peru next year"
Her family is from Peru and they now have enough miles for reward tickets for next spring.