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If you’re needing to fly to or within Canada in the next few months, Aeroplan has launched a great new promotion which is offering a 50% rebate when booking award flights in the US and Canada that are operated by Air Canada.
The Deal
- Receive a 50% miles rebate when booking award flights within the US and Canada with Aeroplan.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- You must be an Aeroplan Member. If you are not an Aeroplan Member, you can visit the Aeroplan web site (www.aeroplan.com) and enroll today. Membership is free.
- Only valid on eligible scheduled flights within Canada and between Canada and the US, operated by Air Canada for travel between July 1st 2020 and completed by October 15th 2020.
- Applies only to new bookings made between June 17th 2020 and July 1st 2020 at 19:59 pm EDT with travel starting July 1st 2020 and completed by October 15th 2020.
- All flights on the reward itinerary must be flown on routes within Canada or between Canada and the US, on Air Canada operated flights including flights operated by Air Canada Rouge® and the Air Canada Express® banner (Jazz Aviation LP, Sky Regional Airlines Inc., or Exploits Valley Air Services LTD).
- Aeroplan Miles will be credited back to your account within three weeks after the qualifying flights are completed.
- Applies to one‑way or two‑way fixed mileage and market fare flight rewards. Not applicable to Star Alliance Upgrade Awards, AC Bid Upgrades or when members use their miles to pay for the taxes, fees and surcharges associated with their flight reward.
- Flight rewards are subject to availability at time of booking. Taxes, fees, charges and carrier surcharges apply.
- Flights are subject to Aeroplan Flight Rewards terms and conditions.
- Offer is subject to change at Aeroplan’s sole discretion, without notice. Other conditions and restrictions may apply.
Quick Thoughts
Receiving a 50% rebate on award flights is an excellent deal as it makes the price of a round trip the same as a one-way.
Seeing as this offer is only available on flights in Canada and between the US and Canada, here’s the pertinent section of their award chart:
Those prices are for round trip travel. That means you can book a round trip economy short-haul flight for a net cost of only 7,500 miles.
The fact that it’s a rebate makes it slightly more inconvenient than if they simply priced the awards at half-price in the first place. That’s because you need enough miles in your Aeroplan account to make the initial booking, then you’ll receive half those miles back in a few weeks. Aeroplan miles expire after 12 months, so you’ll need to ensure you have qualifying activity within a year to stop the rebated miles from expiring.
One of the key terms to note from this promotion is that the rebate is only provided when booking flights operated by Air Canada in Canada and the US. That therefore means you won’t receive the rebate on other Star Alliance flights such as those operated by United.
This promotion should be showing on the Aeroplan website tomorrow and existing Aeroplan members will also receive an email about the offer.
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This may be nice for Canadians who are residing in Canada, but for those of us in the USA (or elsewhere) this appears to be al but useless. The US-Canada border is closed to non-essential travel and every oracle I’ve consulted tells me that’s not going to end anytime soon. I got excited about this and started looking into a trip in September. Then I found the official statements about the different phases they would be going through as things open up.
According to official websites I found, international travel to Canada isn’t planned to open up until their “Phase 4”. Their Phase 4 isn’t tied at any dates (imagine that, not setting a completely meaningless, totally arbitrary date).
Phase 4 starts when there is a vaccine. Ohhh kaaaay…home we stay. I’ll try again next year.
There are surcharges on Air Canada and anyone entering Canada must quarantine for 14 days plus Air Canada has really slashed their cross border flights so not such a great deal in practical terms
I could find award flight between LAX and Toronto, but returned error if I search flights between LAX and Montreal ( YUL), does anyone know what happened?
What is considered short haul for Air Canada?
Same province or one province over is short haul. i.e. Vancouver to Calgary or Edmonton.
this will apply for US and canada as well, right?
As it must be on Air Canada aircraft, it would be anywhere in Canada/US to Canada/US.