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Old Dec 15, 2019, 5:50 pm
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rhakim
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Posts: 27
Expiring miles

Hi,

I'm looking for ideas of what to do with 50K expiring miles in my account and 30K expiring miles in my wife's account.

I'm wondering about booking an award flight in business for, say, June 2020 and then cancelling it in the new year. Would that get the points re-deposited back into my account?

50K expiring miles would cost me $500 to extend for 3 years. Not sure that is worth it to me for an airline where it is so hard to use those miles.

Thanks for any advice.


Things I have tried:
  • I tried booking a flight on United business earlier this year, and after e-mailing and calling sales offices and being told "no", I gave up after about 5 attempts.
  • I tried booking Vancouver - Istanbul on TK metal but I guess that option is not running yet.
  • I don't have any Star Alliance flights flights I can upgrade via a companion ticket.
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