Are Air Canada Points still useful ex Australia?

Thread starter somebol
Start date Oct 15, 2025

MEL_Traveller

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Yesterday at 11:24 PM

Luciana Lanza said:
Hello Everyone/Brains Trust,
I keep reading about the option via Maurtius but the cost is 110K plus 5K for the stopover which currently is $5775 to buy the necessary aeroplane miles. I'm not sure what I am missing but this does not seem like a bargain at all ...approx $3k one way ...isn't better to find a cheap one way J back from europe or a return J from Asia?

you wait for the 100% bonus miles deal. So the cost is halved. It should would out to around $2300 one way to europe business class, with a stopover

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