Originally Posted by
Guava
Following the same logic, it stands to reason many of the practices that members find useful such as being able to connect via IST (Europe 2) on the way to Europe 1, YQ elimination trick once the trip has begun, or rebooking an existing based reservation on pre-devaluation prices - all of them are at risk. We just don't know what will happen but we do know Aeroplan is aware of those as they are openly discussed here in this very forum and chances are, if they want to, they can put a stop to them without notice.
If, as some here believe, YQ is passed on to the operating carrier, then AE has no incentive to address YQ elimination tactics as it costs them nothing. In fact AE should attempt to acquire more award inventory from YQ-free carriers as it only improves their value proposition to the customer.