Buying Air Canada Aeroplan points

[MG1]

This may be slightly off-topic but thought that it didn't warrant its own thread: I'm unable to see my expiry when I log in: is it two years after last activity with all points expiring at the same time?

Also, as it nears expiry, can you use the points for future travel (i.e. post-expiry date) as long as no changes are required?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

This may be slightly off-topic but thought that it didn't warrant its own thread: I'm unable to see my expiry when I log in: is it two years after last activity with all points expiring at the same time?

Also, as it nears expiry, can you use the points for future travel (i.e. post-expiry date) as long as no changes are required?

Yeah, two years on inactivity = expiry of all points. So it’s not rolling like SQ.

you can book future travel, i don’t see why changes wouldn’t be allowed as long as it didn’t involve a refund of points. Don’t know what happens if you were due a points refund.

edited to fix spelling

 

[flyguy77]

Pretty sure they've paused any expiry until 30 Nov 2026 as per link below - correct me if wrong.

More flexibility for our members

More flexibility for our members

www.aircanada.com

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Pretty sure they've paused any expiry until 30 Nov 2026 as per link below - correct me if wrong.

More flexibility for our members

More flexibility for our members

www.aircanada.com

Good pick up!

 

[MG1]

Yeah, two years on inactivity = expiry of all points. So it’s not rolling like SQ.

you can book future travel, i don’t see sy changes wouldn’t be allowed as long as it didn’t involve a refund of points. Don’t know what happens if you were due a points refund.

Thanks @MEL_Traveller and @flyguy77 for the confirmation. I had activity in 2025, so that means that I should have until 2027 to use the points (for flights up to 2028). I'll try to use them sooner than then though.

 

[Luciana Lanza]

They can take a while. Some people I know it has taken up to 24 hours, even with established accounts.

It took 7 weeks and multiple phone calls with wait times of 2plus hours

 

[I love to travel]

Aeroplan wait times must be horrendous as it is not even allowing me to hold, getting a we cannot connect you to an agent because of exceptional call volume. Hopefully someone can answer this for me as I only have another 7 hours before I can cancel my back up booking for free.

I have a ticket EWR to SIN with a stopover of 14 days and then SIN to BNE - all one ticket, just used the great stopover rule of an additional 5000 points. Can I discard the first segment of EWR to SIN but keep the SIN to BNE segment and get the difference in points refunded? I don't want to lose the SIN to BNE segement.

Thanks for any help

 

[markis10]

Receive up to a 30% discount when you buy 5,000 or more Aeroplan points. Offer valid to Jan 24, 26

 

[I love to travel]

Aeroplan wait times must be horrendous as it is not even allowing me to hold, getting a we cannot connect you to an agent because of exceptional call volume. Hopefully someone can answer this for me as I only have another 7 hours before I can cancel my back up booking for free.

I have a ticket EWR to SIN with a stopover of 14 days and then SIN to BNE - all one ticket, just used the great stopover rule of an additional 5000 points. Can I discard the first segment of EWR to SIN but keep the SIN to BNE segment and get the difference in points refunded? I don't want to lose the SIN to BNE segement.

Thanks for any help

To answer my own question - no issues, If there is 2 flights listed as Flight 1 and Flight 2,, very unlikely to be married segments if stopover is more than 2 days. . Wait time for Aeroplan call centre over 2 hours and had to ring 5 times over a day to actually get through, they were not even letting people wait as call volumes were so high. Phoned 10.30pm Brisbane time

 

[Pele]

To answer my own question - no issues, If there is 2 flights listed as Flight 1 and Flight 2,, very unlikely to be married segments if stopover is more than 2 days. . Wait time for Aeroplan call centre over 2 hours and had to ring 5 times over a day to actually get through, they were not even letting people wait as call volumes were so high. Phoned 10.30pm Brisbane time

So you have status with Air Canada?

 

[I love to travel]

So you have status with Air Canada?

Not now, hence the very long wait time