Actually I did not find that too bad,having gone through the exercise twice on Sunday, once this morning. They have to set something up, which beeps. They they tell you to enter the card number on your phone. I didn't mind it at all. Only trouble, on two occasions I inadvertently started entering my aeroplan number instead of the CC's.

Booked for one way on a Europe Latitude pass. Plus upgrades, 22 credits of the older variety, 22 fresh ones. For myself.

Booked three rewards, one complex transatlantic on the phone for my wife, with two stopovers in addition to the point of turnaround, plus I had a very specific itinerary in mind, because we needed to stop to do some business at a fourth location, so arriving in the morning, leaving in the evening. Partially matching two of my bookings on the pass. Another short haul NA round trip, actually embedded in one of the stopovers of the previous one, also for my wife.

Then a round trip within Europe for myself, on my wife's account (IKK not applicable). Again matching two legs of her complex ticket. I could have bought a cheap economy ticket, but no miles then, so might as well sit with her and burn her nearly worthless miles. On aeroplan.com; funny thing, I could not pay but I had to phone in to complete the booking. Agent could not say why that happened. That one for myself on a star partner, again matching two legs of her itinerary

So that took care of our Feb. holidays, plus her February babysitting.

Then I tried to book for my wife another trip to Europe on aircanada.com, as per beginning of the thread. Which is where I ran into trouble with the YQ. As it was getting close to their closing time, I left the issue for today.

So, between yesterday and today, we disposed of a total of 235k miles. After redeeming another 95k early December for another trip in May. Nice cleanup before tomorrow's devaluation.