Air Canada is offering a bidding program to upgrade a passenger’s seat. The upgrades are based on availability for select destinations and scheduled flights operated by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, and under the Air Canada Express banner.
Bringing luggage onto the plane, whether checked-in or carry-on, has become such a complicated issue since the introduction of the pay-per use for the past few years. It seems like it will only get more problematic when costs are attached to carry-ons. As a result, the free checked bag offer from credit cards is only going to become more valuable.
Below is an updated list of credit cards that offer a free checked bag, ranked by annual fees:
CIBC is offering something called the Air Canada AConversion Visa Prepaid Card. A prepaid card is a card where you can use your credit card to pre-load the card with a specific amount of funds to be used at a later date. You can use this like a credit card (wherever accepted). The main difference between is that instead of a credit limit, where you use the limit first, and then pay off the balance when it is due, you have to preload the card with money, and you can only use what is loaded into the card. There is no credit limit.
Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge offers a selection of lounges around the world. One of the ways to access these lounges is to purchase a membership. Maple Leaf Club members must present their membership card and a confirmed same-day ticket or boarding pass on a departing Canada, Air Canada Express or any Star Alliance member airline flight.
People always wonder if Aeroplan miles are worth it. What can we do with them? Today, I am going to share one of my reward redemptions with you. Recently, my wife and I took a trip from Ottawa, Canada (YOW) to Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS) on an Aeroplan fixed rate reward flight. After coming back from the trip, I would like to share my reward redemption experience with you, as it took an interesting turn along the way.
I think that we are due for an update for airline expiration policies, as a few of them have changed recently. I have only listed frequent flyer programs that have a direct way of earning miles with them in Canada. You can always keep these accounts active with co-share or alliance member partners.
It’s Black Friday and there are deals everywhere as we wish our neighbours in the United States and Happy Thanksgiving! In recent years, both Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been combined into a long weekend of unbelievable discounts assisting our needs into the holiday season.
Air Canada is introducing “Altitude Qualifying Dollars” (AQD) that needs to be combined with Altitude Qualifying Miles (AQM) or Altitude Qualifying Segments (AQS) to determine Altitude elite status.
Air Canada has its elite qualifying program called Altitude. They have now introduced Altitude Students, which is a program designed exclusively for post-secondary students registered in a Canadian institution. It is free to sign up and offers special travel and exclusive perks.
Both Air Canada and WestJet reported that they set all-time single-day records for the number of passengers on July 31, 2015. Air Canada reported that it flew more than 150,000 passengers, while WestJet had 72,240 passengers on the same day.