Clipper801

Whatever. That's the rules. Same with CIBC.

The Privilege version comes with 6 entries to the Priority Pass contract lounges worldwide regardless of airline and class of service flying.

Transpacificflyer

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marktwothousand

I'm flying on a ticket paid for on my TD card and redeemed for an Aeroplan reward YYZ-MEL, return SYD-YYZ. The first leg of the YYZ-MEL ticket is YYZ to LAX on Air Canada and then onward to MEL on United.

I wonder if I will get MLL access. Technically, I am flying Air Canada out of YYZ to LAX, but I'm not sure if I am considered an AC passenger or a UA passenger. Each flight in the segment have their own designation (no codeshares).

Last calendar year I redeemed out of YYZ on AC-only Aeroplan flights with no issues. I was quite happy by the time I boarded the plane. Unfortunately This time it's a morning flight, so no alcohol, but I'm cancelling the card soon, so might as well use it for something.

PS: can we use any lounge in YYZ that we want with these passes? Even tho my flight is transborder, it's gate is right next to the international lounge, so obvs I'd rather go there so I can be close to my flight. Am I allowed or are we restricted to using the lounge that's attached to the kind of flight we're taking?

Clipper801

You just say TD card, need to be technical to confirm that it is either a TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite or TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Privilege card. You are flying in economy class.

So long as your Aeroplan ticket was redeemed from your account attached to your Aeroplan Visa card, you will be able to use the transborder MLL. There is an elevator at the right side after security/US CBP to take you directly to the MLL.

You will also be able to use the priority check-in at Aisle 3 and entitled to Zone 2 priority boarding.

If you have the Privilege version, you may use one of the Priority Pass contract lounges at LAX during transit, as well as SYD and any intermediary points on your return flight. It comes with 6 free entries.

peroorim

I have just learned that in order to use all these, you ALSO have to pay for the taxes associated with the AE award ticket with your TD Aeroplan. The AC system will have this on file.

peroorim

The Air Canada system has to show that you used that specific card to pay for the taxes on the award ticket.

peroorim

I checked in online, choose 1 bag and was not charged for it in Dec.

peroorim

From my experience, you will get lounge access only if you booked that specific award ticket with the TD visa you have.

I had a TD Aeroplan card but I paid the taxes for the Air Canada Aeroplan award ticket with a different card and the Air Canada and Lounge agents told me I can not access the lounge

mapleg

The insurance they flog has nothing to do with your credit capacity or quality. It is simply a money grab income generator for the bank. Only the most illiterate of consumers buy that kind of insurance.

Anyway, I was considering applying for a TD card, but your comments helped me decide not to, so thank you for that.

Calliopeflyer

Different strokes......I never get multiple calls from TD (I can't remember the last time I got one at all), and they've never tried to sell me anything extra. When I canceled my card a few years ago, they were respectful of my choice and didn't try to woo me back. When I took a card out again 11.5 months later, they did it without a hitch, didn't try to sell me anything else, and have not contacted me about any insurance, credit increases, or multiple cards.

Why are these two experiences different? I have no idea, but I have gotten great service from TD regarding my credit card (only one better was AmEx).

Clipper801

You don't need to pay for the taxes and service charges of the redemption ticket with the TD Aeroplan Visa in order to access the MLL. This is incorrect although AC staff is known in the past to frequently make up own rules rather than referring to the corporate policies and procedures manual. They definitely dislike anything that would mean extra works for them. The only thing required is that the ticket was redeemed from the Aeroplan account attached to the credit card and the member was flying, not someone else.

I suggest to write to Customer Care to report the incident.

It only matters if 75% of the full fare of the ticket, including redemption ticket, is not charged to the Aeroplan visa card, it will void the travel insurance coverage. The one thing needs to watch out is using the AC Gift Card. It must not exceed 25% of the total costs and pay the balance with an Aeroplan Visa or one would not have any travel insurance coverage. Same applies if paying with cash.

1Newflyer

I just activated TD card yesterday and it was via a rep who pretended that the activation is a "long" process during which he talks about the insurance. TD does it all the time. Others do it as well. Cards that need a rep for activation are design for a sales pitch regardless of issuer. Some cards are activated by just calling in and providing a number and some adder info to a computer or even better online. Amex comes to mind.

You are lucky with your relationship with TD. My has been varied. And I have all the financial products with them.

jubberly

I only apply to get the 25000 enrolment points(when its FYF....like my last 2 applications).I can put up with a little inconvenience........

beep88

Other than during credit card "activation", I receive no market calls or mail from TD. I told them to stop long time and they obliged. Banks are good with these requests.

JJonahJ

I agree with Clipper...it's NOT necessary to pay with a specific TD/CIBC Aeroplan Visa card to get the lounge access. There was a previous poster who said he paid with an Amex card, but when swiping a TD or CIBC card, he got lounge access. My own datapoint, from a page past, was that I booked my wife's ticket with my Aeroplan points, and I swiped one of MY TD/CIBC Aeroplan cards with my name and my Aeroplan number, and she got access to the lounge (i.e., the name on the boarding pass did not matter, though this may by a case of the lounge rep getting tired of swiping all my different cards).

Also, I don't know how to emphasize it with more clarity, but there is NO GUARANTEE that you will get access to the lounge, even if you DID use your ONE and ONLY TD Aeroplan Visa, with an AC metal redemption, with the Aeroplan accounts on the card+boarding pass, all copacetic (the same). I followed all these rules, but still got denied entry to the lounge, and this was after 5 months after opening the card, so not a case of being too new to have been setup in the system. I did complain to AC and they relented to my complaints and gave me two paper passes, as compensation. Later in the year, I tried the SAME card on another Aeroplan redemption...this time it worked.

This is why I hate the new system...there's no way to check ahead of time that everything is in order and that you have a valid entry credit on your card account within AC's systems, when it is swiped. Anyone think AC IT is braniac enuf to build such a system for us to use?? Not likely. BRING BACK THE PAPER PASSES!