In addition to award trips already ticketed for next year to the French Polynesian islands, the Maldives, and Tanzania/Zanzibar, I'm planning to reserve additional awards this week with the remaining ~ 350K miles in my account. Just to mitigate the possible massive devaluations to partner awards.

It's with a feeling of resignation however. First, I have to figure out if I can afford the time and $$$ for all of these additional trips crammed into a relatively short amount of time. If I "have" to take them all, I doubt they'll be the way I'd normally want them to be for once in a lifetime type trips. Second, award tickets aren't readily available yet for the experiences and destinations I'd like to use them for. Like the A380 Etihad first class apartment flight. Many destinations still aren't open or have gone by the wayside, at least with AA award tickets. Like my trip Tasmania/Australia and Easter Island trips planned for 2019.

Worse though, is wondering if award mitigations will prove futile to a certain extent anyway. i.e., how many trips ticketed now will actually happen? My last three attempts to book Qatar award tickets to Africa have basically been cancelled due to schedule changes so significant they couldn't be mitigated. If this continues to happen after devaluations rescheduling due to IRROPS, closed destinations, or other reasons might not even be possible. I'm not sure how that works, but I'm guessing business RT award tickets for 160,000 miles won't be honored if the current rate is 320,000 miles. (??)

Oh well.... First World problems indeed.....