Get A 20-30% Bonus When You Transfer Hotel Points To Air Canada Aeroplan
If you transfer hotel points to Air Canada’s Aeroplan mileage program from 3/13-4/17 you’ll get a bonus:
-Convert 2,500-99,999 miles and get a 20% bonus.
-Convert 100,000-199,999 miles and get a 25% bonus.
-Convert 200,000+ miles and get a 30% bonus.
-The total amount converted from all hotel partner will be added up in order to determine the bonus.
-The bonus miles will post to your account by the end of May.
By far and away Starwood and Marriott have the best transfer options. Unfortunately the bonus does not apply for Membership Rewards transfers.
The bonus stacks with Starwood’s 25% bonus as follows:
-20K Starpoints will transfer to 30K Aeroplan miles (50% effective bonus)
-80K Starpoints will transfer to 125K Aeroplan miles (56.3% effective bonus)
-160K Starpoints will transfer to 260K Aeroplan miles (63% effective bonus)
You can convert Marriott points to Starwood at a 3:1 ratio.
Marriott’s miles+nights makes for a great redemption:
-90K Starpoints (270K Marriott points) will transfer to 150K Aeroplan miles and 7 nights in a Marriott category 1-5 hotel, plus you can get back 15K Starpoints (45K Marriott points) for cancelling the hotel booked with a certificate, making the effective cost 75K Starpoints for 150K miles (100% effective bonus).
-180K Starpoints (540K Marriott points) will transfer to 312K Aeroplan miles and 2 stays of 7 nights each in a Marriott category 1-5 hotel, plus you can get back 30K Starpoints (90K Marriott points) for cancelling the hotels booked with the certificates, making the effective cost 150K Starpoints for 312K miles (108% effective bonus).
Of course if you use the hotel certificates the effective bonus can be much higher than that.
A breakdown of Aeroplan policies:
The good:
-Air Canada has one of the best lap child policies out there. You pay a flat fee of just $50 in coach, $75 in premium economy, $100 in business, or $125 in first for a lap child. Compare that to 10% of the paid fare with other airlines and you can save a small fortune, especially if you are flying in business or first class.
Aeroplan’s Star Alliance award chart has some bright spots, though not as many as it used to. A business class flight from North America to Europe or South America is 55K miles each way while first class is 70K miles each way.
-Air Canada generously allows for a free stopover within North America and 2 free stopovers when flying to another continent, so you can check out up to 2 cities for as long as you want in addition to your final destination. If used properly you can create for yourself a mini round-the-world trip, all for the single award rate of flying to your final destination. So for just 110K miles you can fly in business class to 3 European cities and stay in each for as long as you want. Or for 160K miles you can fly to Australia in business, with stops in Europe and in Asia along the way for example.
-There are no expedite/close-in fees.
The bad:
-There is a C$100 charge to change or cancel an award ticket and a C$250 charge to cancel within 21 days of departure.
-Awards can’t be held.
-Premium class travel to Israel and the Middle East is pricey at 165K for business and 230K round-trip for first class. That’s higher than every other region in the world. Some agents may allow you to stopover in Israel on the way to another region for the lower cost of flying to the other region.
The ugly:
-Air Canada charges a fuel surcharge if you redeem their miles for travel on the following carriers: Adria, Air Canada, ANA, Asiana, Austrian, LOT Polish, Lufthansa, TAP Portugal, and THAI. (There is no fuel surcharge if you redeem their miles for travel on the following carriers: Aegean, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, Avianca/TACA, Brussels, Copa, Croatia, EVA, EgyptAir, Ethiopian, SAS, Shenzhen, Singapore, South African, Swiss, Turkish, and United)
-Air Canada miles require activity every 12 months to keep them active.
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90k SPG = 120k AC plus 30% should be 156k
“Some agents may allow you to stopover in Israel on the way to another region for the lower cost of flying to the other region.” can you give an example of this?
I believe their change/cancel fee is only C$90 (at least that’s what I was charged yesterday).
Correction
The good:
-[Air Canada] Aeroplan has one of the best lap child policies out there…
-[Air Canada] Aeroplan generously allows for a free stopover within North America…
partly correct
The ugly:
-[Air canada] Aeroplan collects a fuel surcharge on behalf of Air Canada if you redeem their miles for travel on the following carriers:Adria, Air Canada, ANA, Asiana, Austrian, LOT Polish, Lufthansa, TAP Portugal, and THAI.
@hvaces42:
Need 200K+ for 30%.
@dave:
A flight to Asia to Australia with a stopover in Israel.
@Yehoshua:
Was your ticket booked before 12/6/16?
@Dov:
I use Air Canada and Aeroplan interchangeably just as I do for any other mileage program.
@Dan: and you are using 270k Marriott for 30%???
@hvaces42:
200K+ refers to total miles accumulated in Aeroplan during the promo period.
Hence if you do 2 of the 270K night+miles transfers you would hit the 30% threshold and get 312K AC miles.
@Dan: 270k gets you 120k AC plus 25% bonus for 100k-199,999. My mistake. Should be 150k.
Dan, for the 7 night and flight package if I cancel my Hotel certificate I can get points reimbursement for that?
@PJ:
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/109136
@Dan
I agree that there is no need to refer to the name of the program (ie MileagePlus) when talking about a specific millage program
In the Case of Aeroplan its different it is 2 different entities and referring to the Aeroplan program as to Air Canada is simply incorrect by definition
I would just add that the fact that the Aeroplan program is not owned by the airline AC is a big disadvantage for the airlines customers
Here is 2 main reasons
Elite Benefits is very minimal no free or discounted reward changes or cancellation for AC Elites (Although There is a new discounted fee structure for Aeroplan distinction members)
When there is a airline related problem with a Aeroplan reward ticket Aeroplan wont take any responsibility on fixing things easily claiming that they are not the airline
Dan can I transfer membership rewards point – hilton – aeroplan?
when trasfering points you get 1.5 hilton points.
@Dov:
That’s nice.
FWIW, Air Canada was kind enough to me to open award seat space for United to change my ticket.
Either way, I’ll still refer to Air Canada/Aeroplan and Cathay Pacific/Asia Miles interchangeably, regardless of them being spun off, as it still is their loyalty program. And I’ll do the same even when a US airline spins off their loyalty program as they undoubtedly will one day.
Feel free to not do so on your blog though 🙂
@Josh:
No. The Hilton:Airline ratio is horrendous.
At which airline is the best to credit a paid Lufthansa flight?
@Eliezer:
Depends on fare class and route.
Economy to europe
I think i never found a special post for where to credit paid flights. There are still some rare cases when DD readers unfortunately have to do paid flights..Especially now with hybrid cards
@Dan
You will continue to call it whatever you want and I will continue to call you out for it
After all its protected under the constitutions First amendment (Although I am not sure if Canada has one)
@Eliezer:
A fare class is a letter. Call the airline for it if you don’t see it.
@Dov:
Whatever floats your boat.
K & L
@Dan I believe it was booked before 12/1/16. I must have missed the change fee hike.
@Eliezer:
K=30% flown miles with ANA
L=50% flown miles with Air Canada or United.
@Yehoshua:
Yup!
To which airline is it best to credit a paid Air Canada flight? Flight is from Canada to Europe, fare class L
Thanks!
@Deme321:
Bookmark this site 🙂
http://www.wheretocredit.com/air-canada/l
I have miles from various airlines, but not enough hotel points. Which, if any air miles, have a decent redemption rate into hotel points?
Doesn’t look like the refund for the unused Marriott Hotel certificate is a written policy anywhere. Am I missing it or are we just hoping they will give you the refund?
if i have a personal SPG card, can i refer someone to the business card?