Originally Posted by
snod08
For Aeroplan, you can earn status by flying partners such as CO, UA.
Air Canada's 35K limit for *G does sound pretty amazing. Is then Aeroplan any different from AC Top Tier? The wording on
the website is fairly unclear:
In order to qualify for 2012 Top Tier status, these qualification criteria will not change. However. as part of this, you must earn at least 5 Air Canada Status Flight Segments or 10,000 Air Canada Status Miles on eligible flights operated by Air Canada, or on behalf of Air Canada by Jazz, Air Georgian (doing business as Air Alliance), Exploits Valley Air Services LTD, Central Mountain Air and Sky Regional Airlines.
I understand it as meaning that within these 35K on *A partners, I have to fly 10K or 5 segments on AC. Am I reading it wrong? This does not sound unreasonable, as routing there and back on WAW-SFO is 6 segments, but always two of them are operated by LO or LH. Oh well.
UA Premier Exec, while requires 15K more to qualify for *G then AC, does have the advantage of free upgrades to Economy Plus, and does provide 100% mileage on nearly all LH, OU, and LX bookings and on all UA/CA. (which are respectively the airlines I fly most out of EU, and most in the US) But then - from what I have heard, and I might have heard wrong - it has a constricted award availability, and they are pretty expensive.
No silver bullet I guess. Thank you for your help so far!