Like many of you, I manage the miles & points accounts for my entire family. I rely on them to use the right credit cards for their spend, but the rest is on me, including making sure that their points don’t expire, helping them redeem their points, etc.
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There's an easier way for (most) Canadians: the Carrot app. I think it's 2 aeroplan miles for every day you complete your step target. Look it up.
I have every member of my family using
the carrot app and while some days are missed, I know that about once a week each person achieves a step goal and therefore gets 1 or 2 Aeroplan miles deposited into their account.
Heard from an Aeroplan agent- book then cancel a hotel booking will also extend it. Never tried it myself.
With regard to transferring Amex Membership Rewards points to Aeroplan: can I transfer my points to someone else's Aeroplan account? Does Aeroplan and/or Amex allow this?
My Aeroplan miles were about to expire recently and I found I could simply use their Aeroplan portal to order from Amazon.ca - something I do pretty regularly anyway. It was easy and it worked just fine - got a few extra points but most importantly I kept my current points alive for another year. I'll do it again around this time next year if necessary.
Ever tried to check the expiry date of your Avianca LM ? Practically a state secret on their crappy user-unfriendly site.
For all Canucks: aeroplan VISA Preferred is $120 per year and even minimum spend keeps miles current.
BEWARE the expiration of Amex partnership is coming! Should you not have a card I wouldnt bother as once AC repurchases Aeroplan the AMEX partnership is gone compliments of VISA!
For Canadians, spend $15 (I think) at Home Hardware, buy gas at Esso, sign up for the Aeroplan research panel etc. Lots of easy and cheap ways to keep your Aeroplan account active.
@Canadian Platinum
I am surprised you do not know Esso has stopped partnering with Aeroplan since May of 2018. Enen this American knows thie Esso route stopped working for 6 months already.
It used to be the easiest way for the Americans to renew Aeroplan because many good hearted Canadians on FT were willing to do this as one time courtesy for fellow FTers. Unfortunately this is no longer possible.
Does Award Wallet allow you to transfer points between programme like points.com Wallet?
Another option is to sign into Aeroplan and use their shopping portal to a retailer and make a purchase that way to earn a few points and extend the expiry date.
Is Air Canada about to open up the Signature Suite lounge in Toronto to award ticket holders? My fixed mileage award ticket to Vienna on Austrian for July 2019 was changed to an AC flight when Austrian bailed on the route and AC took over. Now the AC iPhone app tells me I have Signature Suite (and Maple Leaf Lounge) access before that flight, and my flight booking class is shown as Z which indeed is eligible. Maybe AC is planning on changing the access rules effective 2019 and that's why I've got this?
There's actually a much easier way to keep your miles from expiring - opt into Aeroplan's SMS messages.
https://www.pointsnerd.ca/the-actual-easiest-way-to-prevent-your-aeroplan-miles-from-expiring/
I use The Carrot app and incur no charge, BUT I have never used it to accrue Aeroplan points.
The easist way I know to accrue Arroplan points is to sign up with the "Asking Canadians" online survey organization. Answering the screening questions on a survey normally takes just a couple of minutes, and even if the screener questions disqualify you from the survey, you still get 5 Aeroplan points for doing the screener, and one survey screener is enough to qualify as a transaction.
https://www.askingcanadians.com/communities/default.aspx?p=p430686807&n=1795610293
How can I fix it if it did already expire? Aeroplan wants to charge me 1c per point!
@rachel
https://www.genymoney.ca/my-aeroplan-points-expired-what-are-the-options/
Try reading the comments in that thread
The Aeroplan point collecting organization is a company OUT to get your points. Unlike the other point collecting companies, Aeroplan has a sneaky way to steal your points from you. They have an EXPIRY!!! If you do not collect any points over a one-year period you will forfeit all the points you have ever collected. They stole over 120,000 points from me last year. If you are wondering how I missed their reminders, they conveniently only send one three months before (which will probably end up in your junk mail if you are a busy person). My mistrust with this company is deeper. I was in communication with one of their employees who offered to help me. I stayed at a hotel within the year but the hotel did not input my points correctly. I provided proof to Aeroplan (receipt of my stay) but they said it was the hotel's fault because the new input date they sent me was outside the expiry date range; so Aeroplan wiped their hands clean and stole my all my points. If you collect you might be waiting for your young children to grow old enough to visit somewhere. Well Aeroplan stole a Disneyland trip from my family with three young girls. Yes, my family will not be going for a few more years thanks to Aeroplan's pathetic customer service. Beware of Aeroplan, they obviously do not care about your family.
Lucky - thank you for this info, I was desperately trying to figure out how to update my daughter's account! You saved her life (miles)!