Originally Posted by
Pseudo Nim
* Dec 14, 2015: book travel for Dec 1, 2016 first flight, Dec 10, 2016 throwaway flight (but be careful... not many airlines release space that far ahead, so you need to make sure you actually have availability!)
* Leave your ticket in a drawer for a year.
* Fly the Dec 1, 2016 flight on that day, in a year from now.
* On landing, immediately call Aeroplan and reschedule the rest of the trip to end on Dec 1, 2017 or before (ENTIRE trip must be complete within 1 year of departure (maybe arrival) of the first flight).
* Find a way to get home by yourself from wherever flight #1 took you, hopefully not too far.
Just thinking out loud, it helps me to write it out:
Nov 1, 2016 YYZ-SFO-HKG-CMB on AA & CX F for 67.5k AA
Nov 30, 2016 BOM-AUH-JFK on EY F for 90k AA
For 90k AE miles:
Dec 1, 2016 EWR-YYZ on UA J
Nov 1, 2017 YYZ-WAW on LOT J
Nov 30, 2017 WAW-YYZ on LOT J
Nov 30, 2017 YYZ-EWR (throwaway)
Double devaluation mileage dump. Can change routing for 2017 flights to add stopovers, change airlines, even change cities if I understand correctly.
Assuming availability of course...
Cheers