Air Canada Aeroplan is probably my single favorite frequent flyer program. Not only does Aeroplan have more airline partners than any other airline loyalty program, but Aeroplan also allows stopovers on awards for just 5,000 points, which is an exceptional deal (given how few loyalty programs allow stopovers nowadays). Well, there's a very exciting development…
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Am unable to search when trying to search a stopover award. Looks like its not ready for BETA
Not working for me yet, does it need to be the same airline for the 2nd leg..or can it be mixed?
One way tickets in the 6,001 - 8,000 range are showing up at 90K miles...they were 85K yesterday..
I booked a trip Nov 2021 to travel March 2022 with a stopover on their website. I used the multi-city option. Maybe I was a tester for the website or something but I’ve definitely had access to this for almost a year
I am seeing some glitches. Trying to book bahrain to muscat to Kuwait on oman air, and for some reason it's pricing out to 17.5k in eco and 25k in business instead of 12.5k and 20k (one way prices are 7.5k and 15k respectively). Is this a known issue?
The other multi-city option works by just combining the costs of each leg individually. Which may be lower or higher in price than the official 5K stopover fee.
Hi Ben,
Based on Aeroplan award chart north America to India on partner airlines should be 85K but I always see 100K points. Award chart has changed?
I've tried to use the Aeroplan site to book award travel on United to South America. Awards (albeit expensive) are available on the UA site but nothing shows up on the Aeroplan site. Am I looking in the wrong place or is something else happening.
Ben keeps talking about the great Aeroplan partners but I somehow I not seeing that.
Cam someone clarify this?
Yes from 1st Sept Award zones are increased although not all at same levels, download new one for your purpose
JFK-AUH-ATH is not pricing at 110K, can I not have a stop over in the UAE on my way to Europe?
Just booked a one-way biz class partner (UK/EY) award within the Atlantic zone with a 7-day stopover for 25k miles on the website.
Distance range for a DEL-BOM-AUH routing falls in the 1,001 to 2,000 mile category.
Did the price for this category reduce by 5k or did the website not tack on an additional 5k for the stopover?
One big problem I see with AP site is that the Business class is almost always mixed and even at 14% it still charges the full reward price. That should be a percentage of the difference of the econ and bus. so if econ is 30k (with stop) and business is 50k (with stop) with 14% available business class. Then it should be 30k + ((50k-30k)*14%) or 32.8k
Also, I wish they would add the tech that AA has had for years on their site where you can ask it to find the next available flight on the route no matter how far out and you can ask for the next fully business class flight (all segments) in a 3ish month period. No need to page week by week. Automation should do the work.
This new automated stop over seems to work and is appreciated. If they keep refining without the constant devaluation, they will be number one.
Does it show as the Saver award level on UA? If not, it's not bookable on Aeroplan.