Yesterday Air Canada announced that they'd be discontinuing their relationship with Aeroplan as of June 2020. Aeroplan is Air Canada's spun off frequent flyer program, which they contracted out when they were in a much worse financial situation about a decade ago. Now that their contract is running out in a few years and Air…
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They can get you to most places you want to go to only if you are willing to pay, often there are no available seats unless you pay significant more points to get the market fare seats. Also, they will try to show you the flights with high surcharges and hide the others with low fees...or you are willing to make couple stops instead of direct...
Aeroplan will survive past 2020 in Canada as they are a coalition program just like AIR MILES. Even though they have the ties to Air Canada they in reality became a frequent shopping program to challenge AIR MILES and will continue to be that. They'll likely drop the costs to potential retailers in the Canadian market space to join Aeroplan and compete with AM, Cineplex's SCENE, More Rewards and all of our other host of programs.
Im trying to book a oneway in F for Sin to nyc on ana. I was considering moving my points to aeroplan to do so. Would i be better off moving my points to krisflyer and booking via them?
Ben, it's time you look into Aeroplan's blocking of non-scamchargeable A* awards, like CA,AV,CM,LX,etc. It is currently not possible to book awards on those airlines via Aeroplan, and I guess it is not going to be ever fixed in this situation.
Dont know about other 3 but I have seen LX awards (actually used one last year)
(Repost from the earlier Aeroplan post, from yesterday):
Lucky and Tiffany,
Here is a data point. About seven hours ago, I was able to book three business class award tickets on LX, for India-ZRH-MIA on LX using United miles. Not available on Aeroplan, and I know this was available until April 15 or so.
Also, just a check, I tried multiple days for the India-ZRH-US cities today. On the United website, I was also able to see quite a few other days, from October to February, with availability on LX. None of them showed up on Aeroplan.