Originally Posted by
marktwothousand
Can you please provide us an update durberville? I have Aeroplan and was going to use the points to buy a ticket to Australia. The taxes were $220 or so, and I was going to charge them to the C1 card. I assumed, based on the travel insurance info I read from WTP, that I _would_ be covered with benefits for the trip, since the "full cost" (taxes, in this case) were still charged to C1! Let us know what happened!
They do not cover points redemptions even though the fees were charged to the card.
I wouldn't take the risk.