theevilmuppet
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Hi all,
I flew from YVR to SEA yesterday on AC (and had to suffer the indignity of sitting in Y as the flight was on a Q400) and recalled the previous announcements made regarding limited codeshare agreements between Air Canada and Virgin Australia, with a promise of a proper reciprocal loyalty program relationship before the end of 2017.
At this point we've seen no progression on this, and there are two pieces of information that make me question whether this will happen before the end of the year, if at all:
I flew from YVR to SEA yesterday on AC (and had to suffer the indignity of sitting in Y as the flight was on a Q400) and recalled the previous announcements made regarding limited codeshare agreements between Air Canada and Virgin Australia, with a promise of a proper reciprocal loyalty program relationship before the end of 2017.
At this point we've seen no progression on this, and there are two pieces of information that make me question whether this will happen before the end of the year, if at all:
- Air Canada have announced that they'll be bringing their loyalty program back in-house, effectively ending Aeroplan
- Delta-ticketed flights now award the same earn bonuses as Virgin-ticketed flights for status-holding Velocity members. As the codeshare agreement was focused on providing connecting traffic from LAX to Canada for VA passengers, one could see such a move as attempting to negate the usefulness of that arrangement.