How to Use Air Canada Aeroplan Points for Flights
nearly made the mistake of paying $600 for a roundtrip flight from Canada to San Francisco to visit us but I was like heck no your brother is an upand cominging points influencer she’s like more like a guy in his 40s having a midlife crisis jokes aside I did say to her on the phone I’m pretty sure I can get you here on points cheaper on Air Canada the largest carrier from Canada my homeland I know that Air Canada has a great loyalty program called airplan and they have a lot of direct Partnerships with many airlines and the most most important thing they’re a Transfer Partner of not just one not two but four credit card loyalty programs and that’s super important means I can have lots of different ways to transfer points from my credit cards to this aor plan program since I don’t want you to make the same mistake as my sister I made a simple tutorial step by step on how to book a flight using points with air plan step one go to aircanada.com step two log into your account if you don’t have an account remember to sign up step three now go to the booking page enter your origin destination and your dates Eric Canada’s website actually has a neat little feature when you select your dates it’ll show a calendar view where you can select but it also has a color gradient of light green to dark green which shows low to high fairs this is a Qui quick easy way to scan for award availability step four check the use Mouse button and click search step five you’ll now see the results page and at thep top you have the lowest Fair available plus or minus 3 days from your date that you selected step six because I’m an Ops little brother I filtered by direct Roots only for my sister step seven you will now want to basically click the left and right arrows on the top to keep looking at different dates and selections to see where you can find the lowest fair for what you’re looking for this is assuming that you have flexibility pausing the normal scheduled programming your question you might be asking right now is is there a faster way to search instead of clicking week by week the answer is no and yes Air Canada does not have a monthly calendar review unfortunately you will not be able to look out a month out on Air Canada itself however if you have tools like seats. Arrow you’re able to look up to two months to up to a year depending if you have the free or paid subscription if you want me to make a video about c. arrow and how to use it drop an airplane emoji below step eight now you want to select the flight you wish and I found this great flight for 11,000 Points Plus taxes step nine select the seat that you want unfortunately all airlines are going to nickel and dime you if you step 10 select the seat fair and then I chose the cheapest seats and I will pay additionally for baggage Step 11 here’s where they get you and you want to select the points plus taxes version of what you originally selected they have four selections ranging from all cash to All Points if you select all points that is not a good deal because they purposely devalue some of the points to pay for the taxes and fees which you don’t want to do step 12 enter all the passenger information which in this case is my sister Step 13 it’ll it’ll prompt you to select seats and each seat will require additional fee since you’re selected the basic fair I click skip for this step 14 enter your payment information and step 15 click purchase they will then send you a confirmation email to your account bam that’s how I saved my sister $600 on this roundtrip flight and if you’re interested on how to earn those credit card points in a super short amount of time check out this next video
