Originally Posted by mtxing

My parents have around 300K China Eastern miles that expire at the end of 2022 (these are their older miles that don't have their expiration renewed with account activity; newer miles don't do this but unfortunatly that's not what they have). However, China Eastern's website seems to have removed the ability to search for SkyTeam award partners. It was working a few months ago, and now it just shows an error asking them to call in. None of their phone agents are able to book SkyTeam partner awards either; one of their CSRs went as far as to say China Eastern has removed that ability altogether (although we're not sure if we believe them).

The only flights that can be booked with their points seem to be domestic flights within China (not useful for my parents who are not currently in that country) or, for their few international flights into China, cost well into the millions of points for an economy one way flight (which they don't have enough points for).

Does anyone know of any other ways to burn China Eastern points?