Aeroplan quietly updated their website to reflect decreased accrual rates of Aeroplan miles for travel on United. My guess is that United instigated the change as they wanted to reduce their mileage liability to Aeroplan. Ultimately if United were willing to pay Aeroplan for the miles, Aeroplan would have no incentive to reduce earnings rate.
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This is matching the AC rates for transborder flights IIRC. That meshes with the fact that they now have the JV in place for those flights in nearly all cases.
As for the UA/SQ thing, I am willing to bet that you are making that assertion without all the details.
@ Wandering Aramean -- Quote from an SQ VP:
https://twitter.com/PointsToPointB/status/424048445431611392
If you have any info that contradicts this, please share!
I think you are overestimating the regard AC/Aeroplan have for their customers. You think being hub-captive is bad, try flying from Canada where AC has the country captive.
Actually this is great as I would never fly AC in economy. So now I get 150% EQM for flying C/F.
Of course I am not sure why I would want elite status on AC rather than UA but I am sure you will address that in another post.
A blogger quoting another blogger supposedly quoting a VP - not sure how reliable that could possibly be. Did you check facts with SQ directly?
Lucky, I'm curious why you're so willing to believe SQ, but not UA. When it comes to matters like this, I don't consider either one to be all that trustworthy.
@ Brian L. -- Because there's not a good reason that Singapore would request space be removed from united.com but not aeroplan.com, for example.
@BOS Flyer - I was sitting 15 feet away from the Singapore Airlines VP at their headquarters when he told me that. I have at least 49 other FlyerTalkers who were there who can validate that statement.
This stinks. What if you book on Air Canada under "flex" but are on a UA flight? What class is booked and do you get the correct 100% mileage? Gotta wonder why after five years as SuperElite i even bother any more. AA Advantage is far better ....
@ Ken -- If it's an award ticket on United you don't earn miles, unfortunately. Air Canada only has access to saver United award space, and that books into award fare classes.