Originally Posted by
drucillica
We're trying to do a multi-city itinerary:
Seattle -> Athens (sept 6)
Istanbul -> Seattle (sept 27).
Our dates aren't super flexible since we've already booked that time off work. We're trying to avoid flights that are 25+ hours long, which is what I'm seeing on the portal right now. The best I found was through Lufthansa directly: 13 hours there, 15 hours back and still somewhat reasonably priced, so I might just book that instead of draining our inlaws' account for a flight that'll take 3 days to get there. Sounds like an upgrade isn't looking so good
That's going to be rather difficult at this late date. Booking a pair of seats, for travel starting in less than a month, and on specific dates with little flexibility, likely means you should forget about using Aeroplan miles for this trip.
I can see a couple of options out of Vancouver, but are going to involve a couple of stops, and not all in business class. It's just not worth using the miles if you still have to pay the fuel surcharges, travel in Y, and take multiple connections.
If you've found some tickets with a price that you're reasonably happy with, I would go ahead and just book that.