Thanks for all the suggestions.

We were actually able to sort 2 rewards flights to Jamaica in January from YYC... market rewards for LESS than the fixed rate awards. Looks like AC is trying hard to fill rouge seats so this worked out "ok" for us.

Don't like the fact we still have stupid scamcharges but not much we can do there.

Hopefully the Market Rewards cost + YQ wasn't similar to paying legit revenue. In any case, glad it worked out for you and that no screws were loose. :p

Scam charges for Rouge. Eeeek. Hope it was in J (or whatever Rouge considers up front for that route).

Unfortunately it wasn't - that said we got specific flights we wanted which saved us a ton off the regular fares. we are overnighting in YYC so the 4 hour flights are broken up before we get to our villa... :)

Looks like on some routes that AC wants to fill on rouge, they are opening up seat availability on connecting flights (ie, YYC-YYZ) that normally were tough to access....

As far as the "Eww rouge" is concerned... we regularly fly sunwing on winter holidays, and rouge is pretty tolerable considering. I'm sure we will have a few drinks before our flight so we won't even notice. And the fact we won't have kids with us... bingo!

Keepng Account Active. Donations?
 

I've not been able to find a clear answer on a question. I want to keep my air miles points from being closed due to inactivity. Aeroplan, Aadvantage, etc. allow donation of points to specific charities through their websites. Is this a means of keeping an account from being deactivated? Is there a minimum number of points?

A little search goes a long way.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-...-activity.html

Welcome to FT.

Wait, is this a question about Air Miles or Aeroplan?

I searched on "donation" and "charitable" and got no match because the thread only has the words "donations" and "charities." I guess the search engine never heard of stemming.

Just searching for donation worked for me.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...query=DONATION

I wrote air miles, not Air Miles. And why would anyone ever have trouble keeping an Air Miles account active? Besides, this is an Aeroplan forum. I don't see the confusion.

@vaan

First, Welcome to FT.

Second, the FT search engine is not the most, um, "helpful" one out there. Depending on the keyword(s) one uses, you either get a result, or you get none.
I prefer the usual search engines as there seems to be much more intuitive-ness built in when searching for threads on FT. I've posted this suggestion in the past, more than once :D

Just a suggestion for anyone who may be driving by this thread.

Well, the UPS Store might be an option if one can get the credit to post...

Went to Home Hardware on Friday. Looked around for the cheapest item to buy (and we can sort of use). At check out, the guy said "got Aeroplan miles expiring?" :D

Miles posted on Saturday.

In the mean time, still waiting for the UPS miles from 2 weeks ago....

Someone PMed me about what to get at HH. We looked around, the thing that was exact $2 was the small paint roller. There were others I don't remember. We got something a little over that as we could use it. Better than the inflated price for mail supplies at the UPS store whose miles don't post.