Originally Posted by plankton

First post, long time lurker. Thanks to everyone's advice over the years.

There were a few recent posts suggesting that it was possible to book an aeroplan reward from Canada, connecting in europe 2, with a destination in europe 1.

After playing with the aeroplan booking engine and eventually calling in, I was able to book the following at the europe 1 redemption rate with no fuel surcharge.

YUL-IST TK J on A330
23 hour layover
IST-FCO TK J
open jaw
TXL-IST TK J
IST-YUL TK J on A330

Got two seats, each for 90,000 aeroplan miles and only $158 in taxes, for travel in August and Sept 2015! Aeroplan does not collect fuel surcharges on TK.

The following routings are also allowed, despite the fact that they all exceed MPM+5:

YUL-IST-FCO (and return), but this one does no come up on aeroplan.com; you must call in

YUL-IST-ZRH (and return; this one shows up on aeroplan.com)

YUL-IST-TXL (and return; also shows up on aeroplan.com)

I could not find valid routings via IST starting in YYZ/YTZ.