Any one had any experience yet of booking the free flight?

I am starting to think I may have difficulty fitting it into my schedule, other than just doing a (non) mileage run, which seems a bit if a waste .

I can allocate it to someone else

I guess I could check with Amex but is the following extract from the rules a bit unclear as to when the flight needs to be taken? I would have thought the wording led to the conclusion it had to be taken in the year following the issue date but the sentence about booked in that year creates some hope in my mind that it may be a longer period to actually take the flight?

You are entitled to one Flight in each full year of Platinum Credit Card membership. A year is 365 consecutive days starting on the date your Platinum Credit Card is issued or any anniversary of that date. Your Flight must be booked before the end of each year. Flight benefits cannot be carried forward to any subsequent year.