Originally Posted by Tifosi

Hoping for some advice on a mini-RTW booking I made under the old rules with two stops. On September 23, 2019 I booked a YYZ-MEL trip in J for travel commencing next week with stops in Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, I recently suffered an injury that’s going to prevent me from taking this trip.

Ideally, I’d like to rebook the same trip for February 2021. My initial thought was to pay the change fee to change the flights to later this year, then pay the change fee again in a few months to book the actual flights I want once there’s February/March 2021 reward availability.

I called Aeroplan and was told that I could change my flight but I’d have to commence travel by September 23, 2020 since the ticket is only valid for one year from issuance and that changing the ticket to a later date doesn’t extend the validity. I suppose I did know that rule but it slipped my mind.

So it looks like my best option is to cancel the reward altogether and take the refund less the cancellation fee. This would mean losing out on a two-stop mini-RTW. The Aeroplan agent was hopeful that the new program will bring back the two-stop rule, but she didn’t seem to have any details or confirmation that this would be the case, so who knows if that’ll be an option later this year or if it’ll be a similar number of miles if it is available.

Am I missing anything? Any other options available to me to take the same trip a year later without losing the extra stop? I’m absolutely fine paying the necessary change fees.