Posts by Category: Aeroplan

This is an article in a multi part series on the different ways to earn Aeroplan miles Overview Part 1…

This is an article in a multi part series on the different ways to earn Aeroplan miles Overview Part 1…

This is an article in a series where I answer reader questions.   The Skinny Reader Pierre is short a…

This is part of a series where I answer readers questions. This question comes from reader Alex and wants to…

The Skinny Aeroplan uses a zone-based redemption system with fixed award mileage rates for each zone. Aeroplan markets its Short…

The Skinny As of April 2014, US Airways is leaving Star Alliance. It will no longer be a partner of…

  Apply for the TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card today   Overview TD recently announced their newest card offering: The…

The ability to use stopovers on award flights can save you significant amounts of money. There area few cases when the stopover feature can be used to your advantage:

Making a trip with the intention of visiting 2 places (natural stopover)
Reducing taxes and fees
Circumventing routing rules to open up award availability
Combining 2 disjointed trips with your home airport as a stopover (creative stopover)

Something I recently discovered, while trying to figure out an Aeroplan transfer is that you can transfer Aeroplan miles to US Airways Dividend miles at a pretty decent rate. This opens up so many possibilities to people who understand where each of the 2 program’s strengths are. In this article, I’ll show you how to exploit this to take advantage of some of the great parts of the US Airways award chart and know when it makes sense to transfer your Aeroplan miles to US Airways miles.

The number of seats available for redemption is limited to maybe 5 or 10 seats on any given flight. There are a few engines that allow you to search availability on Star Alliance partners. In this article, I’ll show you how to find which flights you can use your Aeroplan (or other Star Alliance partners) miles for flights.