Aeroplan award availability - middle of the pack; but worse in 2013 vs 2012
May 9, 2013, 5:01 pm
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Aeroplan award availability - middle of the pack; but worse in 2013 vs 2012
See this link:
http://www.frequentflier.com/blog/an...ility-goes-to/
Per this survey: Air Canada/Aeroplan is in the middle of the pack (11/20). Of the 4 US legacy carriers, UA offers more availability, but American Airlines, Delta, and US Airways offer less availability.
However, the availability is shown to have gone down significantly for a given period of time this year compared to same period last year.
http://www.frequentflier.com/blog/an...ility-goes-to/
Per this survey: Air Canada/Aeroplan is in the middle of the pack (11/20). Of the 4 US legacy carriers, UA offers more availability, but American Airlines, Delta, and US Airways offer less availability.
However, the availability is shown to have gone down significantly for a given period of time this year compared to same period last year.
May 9, 2013, 5:03 pm
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Severly flawed survey - it only took into account online availability
Apart from minor variations, UA=US=AC, its the same inventory!
UA may be higher because united.com can throw some crazy itineraries with 3 connections at you, therefore will show more available than Aeroplan.com
and USAirways.com only shows USAir availability... so of course it will be low.
Apart from minor variations, UA=US=AC, its the same inventory!
UA may be higher because united.com can throw some crazy itineraries with 3 connections at you, therefore will show more available than Aeroplan.com
and USAirways.com only shows USAir availability... so of course it will be low.
May 9, 2013, 5:57 pm
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Severly flawed survey - it only took into account online availability
Apart from minor variations, UA=US=AC, its the same inventory!
UA may be higher because united.com can throw some crazy itineraries with 3 connections at you, therefore will show more available than Aeroplan.com
and USAirways.com only shows USAir availability... so of course it will be low.
Apart from minor variations, UA=US=AC, its the same inventory!
UA may be higher because united.com can throw some crazy itineraries with 3 connections at you, therefore will show more available than Aeroplan.com
and USAirways.com only shows USAir availability... so of course it will be low.
May 9, 2013, 10:37 pm
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I do find Aeropeso seat availability to be low. Seems a lot lower than previous years when I tried to book. So with the devaluation of points, scamcharges, and low availability, the Aeropeso points are worth less and less to me.
May 10, 2013, 5:00 am
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Space around holidays is now being effectively blacked out by AC. I was not able to get an award for Christmas YEG-YYZ but was able to get YEG-EWR-BUF on UA.
May 10, 2013, 7:24 am
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what kind of availabilty
Wonder what the study considers as AC/AE availability? 22 hrs from YYZ to CUN with stops is not availability, it is torture. Or return with 6 hrs overnight at a transit airport is also not availability in my opinion. I can deal with one stop and a few hrs transit time but some of the 'options' on AE are downright crazy.
May 10, 2013, 8:00 am
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The funny thing is this survey will presumably look for the own airline's availability, whereas any wise AP users cares mainly about almost everything but AC availability.
May 10, 2013, 3:26 pm
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May 10, 2013, 5:57 pm
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No but it's the second year in a row there was nothing from approx Dec 15 to Dec 25 on transcons or connections from YEG to YYZ.