This week, while trying to sort out some flights, I ended up calling Aeroplan instead of using their website. A very nice lady answered the phone and was able to solve all of my problems. Throughout the course of answering my questions she let me know that as of last Monday (December 8, 2008) you can now do two very exciting things with Aeroplan points:

1. You can now travel to Asia through Europe. This was, up until now, a no-no.
2. You can travel around the world for 75,000 points! This includes two stop-overs plus your final destination.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I was not able to use either of these awesome new features. I'd love to hear from anyone who has.

Since the Aeroplan website is so fantastically horrible I imagine you'll need to call to book any of the above trips.