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Air Canada miles are quite valuable, especially for last minute tickets and tickets across a plethora of travel partners, including expanded award availability on products like Singapore long-haul business class that are blocked from partners like United.

Will you transfer over miles with a 30% bonus?


Get A 30% Or 40% Bonus When You Transfer Chase Points Into Air Canada Aeroplan Miles!

For many years, Chase didn’t have any transfer bonuses. Chase executives told me when they launched Ultimate Rewards point transfers to airlines that they decided to focus on strong partners with easy to understand transfer ratios and not on assorted transfer ratios and transfer bonuses.

But times are changing and Chase now has their first ever transfer bonus to Air Canada. You will get a 30% bonus, or 1,300 Air Canada Aeroplan miles for every 1,000 Chase points transferred through 11/30.

This is stackable with the 10% bonus for 50K+ Chase transfers for Aeroplan® Credit Cardholders. 

AMEX and Capital One points also transfer to Air Canada. There haven’t been any Capital One to Air Canada bonuses, but AMEX offered a 15% bonus to Air Canada in September 2022 and a 20% bonus in September 2021.

In general, I don’t recommend transferring miles to airline programs without an immediate redemption due to the risk of devaluation, but this bonus is lucrative enough to justify transfering miles that you might need over the next year or so. I don’t envision an Air Canada devaluation in that timeframe.

Air Canada brought the Aeroplan program in-house 2 years ago and eliminated fuel surcharges from their program. Alas, they do charge a C$39 booking fee (currently US$28.70) on all partner awards.

Air Canada can book Star Alliance awards and awards on other partner airlines like Aer Lingus, Air Mauritius, Air Serbia, Azul, Canadian North, Cathay Pacific, Etihad, GOL, Gulf Air, Oman Air, SriLankan, Virgin Australia, and Vistara. Plus, unlike US carriers, they are committed to keeping award charts.

For example, while United now charges 15K miles for a last-minute Cleveland to Newark flight, Aeroplan charges just 6K miles as per their short-haul award chart.

Air Canada also allows stopovers for 5K miles and you can build round-the-world tickets and more.

A big benefit of booking with Air Canada is free lap child awards within the US/Canada and just C$25 (currently $18.40) for a lap child anywhere in the world on Air Canada or partner airlines! That’s a real bargain compared to the 10% of the full fare that US airlines charge, which can make lap children tickets cost prohibitive on a premium cabin award ticket.

Air Canada also allows families to pool their miles together!

Here are Air Canada’s award charts.

If you just want to search for the award cost between 2 cities, you can search here.

Air Canada broke the world down into 4 regions, North America, South America, Atlantic, and Pacific:

 

 

There are 10 award charts to sift through.

Overly complicated? Definitely.

But it’s a very interesting approach to award chart pricing. It allows Air Canada to accurately price every journey, something that is very difficult for a region based award chart and for a distance based award chart.

In other words using United’s region based award pricing, it can be too expensive to book some awards. Using BA’s distance based award chart it can also be too expensive to book some awards, NYC to Tokyo for 217K miles in business class is ridiculous and adding a connection makes it even more cost prohibitive.

By using a hybrid region and distance based award chart, Air Canada creates valuable award pricing for every route.

Each region has a distance based award chart for travel within that region and to other regions.

While BA’s distance based award chart dings you for every connection made, Air Canada won’t charge separately for connecting segments. You can create awards with out of the way stopovers, which can be quite lucrative.

Here is the distance chart for flights within North America. Prices listed on all of the award charts chart are one-way, but sample routes below are priced as round-trips.

 

  • A round-trip flight from LaGuardia to Toronto or Montreal on Air Canada starts at 12K miles in coach or 30K miles in business as it’s between 0-500 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Cleveland to Newark on United is 12K miles in coach or 30K miles in business as it’s between 0-500 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Chicago to LaGuardia on United is 20K miles in coach or 40K miles in business as it’s between 501-1,500 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Los Angeles to Newark on United is 25K miles in coach or 50K miles in business as it’s between 1,501-2,750 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Miami to Vancouver on United is 45K miles in coach or 70K miles in business as it’s 2,751+ miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Honolulu on United is 45K miles in coach or 70K miles in business as it’s 2,751+ miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Toronto to Honolulu on Air Canada starts at 35K miles in coach or 70K miles in business as it’s 2,751+ miles.

 

If you’re flying from North America to Europe, Africa, India, or the Middle East, you’ll have to consult this chart:

 

  • A round-trip flight from Newark to London on United is 70K miles in coach or 120K miles in business as it’s between 0-4,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Frankfurt on Lufthansa is 70K miles in coach, 120K miles in business, or 180K miles in first as it’s between 0-4,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Tel Aviv on United is 80K miles in coach or 140K miles in business as it’s between 4,001-6,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Cape Town on United is 110K miles in coach or 180K miles in business as it’s between 6,001-8,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Los Angeles to Cape Town on United is 140K miles in coach or 220K miles in business as it’s 8,001+ miles.

If you’re flying from North America to the Far East or Oceania, you’ll have to consult this chart:

 

  • A round-trip flight from Seattle to Tokyo on ANA is 70K miles in coach, 110K miles in business, or 180K miles in first as it’s between 0-5,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from JFK to Tokyo on ANA is 100K miles in coach, 150K miles in business, or 220K miles in first as it’s between 5,001-7,500 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from JFK to Singapore on Singapore is 120K miles in coach, 170K miles in business, or 260K miles as it’s between 7,501-11,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Los Angeles to Sydney on United is 120K miles in coach or 175K miles in business as it’s between 7,501-11,000 miles.
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Perth on United and Air New Zealand is 150K miles in coach or 230K miles in business as it’s 11,001+ miles.

If you’re flying from North America to South America, you’ll have to consult this chart:

 

  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Bogota on United is 40K miles in coach or 80K miles in business as it’s between 0-2,500 miles. 
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Lima on United is 60K miles in coach or 100K miles in business as it’s between 2,501-4,000 miles. 
  • A round-trip flight from Newark to Sao Paulo on United is 80K miles in coach or 120K miles in business as it’s between 4,501+ miles.

Want to earn Aeroplan miles?

You can earn miles with the Chase Aeroplan Card.

You can instantly transfer AMEX, Chase, Or Capital One points to Air Canada at a 1:1 ratio or Marriott points at a 60K:25K ratio.

If you, a member in your household, or an authorized user has one of the following Chase cards, you can transfer points into miles:

Chase no-annual fee cards that are fantastic for earning points, but require one of the cards above for points transfers include:

  • Ink Business Cash® Credit Card earns 5 points per dollar on cable, TV, telecom, cellular, office supply stores, and gift cards from office supply stores, plus 2 points per dollar on dining and gas ($0 annual fee). Read more here.
  • Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card earns 1.5 points per dollar everywhere ($0 annual fee). Read more here.
  • Chase Freedom Flex has a 20K signup bonus, plus 5 points on rotating categories, 5 points per dollar on travel purchased through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal, and 3 points per dollar on dining and drugstores ($0 annual fee). Read more here.
  • Chase Freedom Unlimited® has a signup bonus offering 3 points per dollar on up to $20K of spending in your first 12 month, afterwards earn at least 1.5 points per dollar everywhere, 5 points per dollar on travel purchased through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal, and 3 points per dollar on dining and drugstores ($0 annual fee). Read more here.

 

Capital One cards with transferable points include:

AMEX cards with transferable Membership Rewards points include:

Marriott cards with transferable points include:

Will you transfer points to Chase with a 30% bonus?

HT: Eluzer K

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28 Comments On "[Ends Tonight!] WOW! Get A 30% Or 40% Bonus When You Transfer Chase Points Into Air Canada Aeroplan Miles!"

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Natig

Thank you Dan! How do we check what’s available on our travel dates?

SD

Air Canada not showing that they fly domestic within the us. How do you find those flights ?

Sam

Do I need to call to get the lap child price? Online it’s charging me 2500 points ow from YUl-TLV in x,

Jake

What’s their award cancelation policy?

Will AC only provide the cheap awards for united flights, when united saver is avail? (Which freely happens)

Steve

Redemption rates to Asia have been ridiculously high as of late and seems to be like that through early next year. Very few flights for 85k points and even some of those are mixed cabin.

JWI

Here comes a devaluation

El

Does chase ever have promotions for transferring to united? Also I need advice, I have chase UR points and a chase Sapphire card that I was planning to close before the annual fee. I can either transfer all the points into united or keep the sapphire card open to be able to refund tickets at 1.25. I am saving the points for several tickets for an eventual trip to Israel but it may a couple years. Is it better to have the points as united or to keep them in chase?

Ten Bucks a Week

Keep in Chase, you can downgrade the card to a free one. You won’t be able to transfer the points, but sounds like you’ll hold them for awhile and then you can grab another Sapphire card later and combine.

08701

When I search on Aeroplan for EWR-TLV it shows 354k one way for business on most options. The only ones pricing at 70k one way are mixed cabin seating.

Sruly

What is their cancelation policy on partner awards?

Chaim

From their website, it seems like a standard award ticket carries a high $150 cancellation fee

greeceball

This link takes me to dead page. I can’t find any place to transfer to airlines. Do you need a specific chase account to do this?

Ly

you need an annual fee card that earns UR

meir

i have tried multiple destinations with multiple dates and keep getting the message below.
how to book a domestic flight with points on Air Canada ?
There are no flights available on the date you selected (Dec 15), but there may be flights on other days. Modify your search for more options.

Guy

I am getting the same message from AC

SK

If you book a united flight thru Aeroplan do you still get the benefits of having a united card?

TC

My transfer initiated today wasn’t instant and still pending 🙁 Anyone know if I will still get the 30% bonus if the transfer goes through after 11:59pm tonight?

Dan1

NYC-Vancouver is business is coming out to 300,000 points. Any idea why?

Gddy

Keep in mind that Aeroplan miles expire after 18 mos of inactivity

Chaim

I’m mostly interested in the domestic flights at this point, most of which would be on United. From a little research, Aeroplan seems to have slightly better/cheaper options booking award United flights than Lifemiles, but the $47(Canadian) booking fee in is definitely hefty.

APS

I just searched a couple of upcoming business flights that I have and I see great availability from Air Canada. I transferred a bunch of points over and received the bonus instantly- Thanks dan!

Danfan

Correct me if I’m wrong, in general for us flights its cheaper to book united flights using Turkish miles as apposed to air Canada, though Turkish miles are harder to obtain.

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