Originally Posted by
robsaw
To get back to the specifics of the OP. Airmiles rewards tickets are not eligible for Aeroplan Status Miles or earning any miles for that matter. That they sometimes do, doesn't change the rule, it only proves that AC IT is buggy.
Buggy? Sounds perfectly natural to expect a few get through the system if AM's award seats book into A booking class which is a revenue ticket class. That some manual override or PNR notations are occasionally ignored can't always be the software's fault, at least IMHO.