Comments on: Getting the most out of Aeroplan

By: Dave Owers

Dave Owers — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:04:19 +0000

dave g
I hear you… I was just looking at a flight Montreal to London and the fees were a crazy $480. the problem is- where do you collect United points in Canada?

By: dave g

dave g — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:08:55 +0000

Aeroplan sux….I just used 120,000 points to book tix YVR to LHR - with $590 “fees” for each ticket…then used my United Points for the same trip - $150 of fees…what the heck is that all about? I plan to cancel my CIBC aeroplan…what a ripoff.

By: Dave Owers

Dave Owers — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:00:12 +0000

Ex-AE Member… thanks! I hope they find me and pay me

By: nadine

nadine — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:02:16 +0000

As of October 20, 2007, you can no longer add an Aeroplan number to your Bell account. Aeroplan and Bell have cancelled their agreement

By: ExAE Member

ExAE Member — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:37:07 +0000

I agree 100 percent with Dayna, I the last thing they have in mind is their members, has anyone notices how much their we site just sucks? Always broken, search does not work, full of bugs and inconsistencies? It is not rocket science to build a proper Web site. and god knows they have enough money to make it great.

BTW this blog sounds and feels like a fake. Something aeroplan PR people would cook up.

By: Dayna

Dayna — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:26:27 +0000

I am looking forward to burning my aeroplan card as soon as I possibly can. I would not recommend Aeroplan to anyone, for any reason. If you are choosing between an aeroplan visa or avion I would recommend avion any day. With my aeroplan visa I pay a yearly fee of $120.00 plus high interest rate. For what? To wait 30 minutes on the phone to book a flight a year in advance and be told they have no classic seats, but do have business….when they just told my sister the opposite!

By: Dave Owers

Dave Owers — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:06:43 +0000

Franco, that really depends. I value my Aeroplan points at around one cent each- because I can use 6,000 miles to get a $50 gift card at Chapters. When I look at a flight I want to take I will take a look at the price of the flight compared to the number of miles required. If paying for the flight is less than the number of miles needed * 1 cent, then I use miles. I have done this a bunch of times and I have found that it is always better to use the miles.

If you want to travel business or first class you can get better value from your miles because the prices of those seats are typically much more than economy seats- so people with a lot of miles will often do that. I generally prefer to stay in economy and get another flight later.

By: Franco

Franco — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:07:33 +0000

Is it better (better value) to use your aeroplan miles on flights or merchandise?

By: Abcd

Abcd — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:08:20 +0000

As good as it is to own an aeroplan card and i certainly don’t disagree owning one, since i have gotten at least 7 to 8 free flights through them. I beleive its better to have a TD or Royal bank points Visa card. This way, you get to double dip since you can use your royal or td points to book a ticket on star alliance network, while you get free points for the flights as well.

By: Dave Owers

Dave Owers — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:34:29 +0000

Thanks for the comment ben…. I agree partially.

For me the advantage to Aeroplan is that you get to collect miles a bunch of different ways (gas stations, pharmacies, etc…) and of course from Air Canada or Star Alliance flights; in addition to making purchases on a credit card.

Recently I had the CIBC Aventura (which is probably similar to the TD bank card) and it was very easy to reserve a trip to Europe for 60,000 points. However, you can only collect the Aventura points from using the credit card.