Originally Posted by
YUL_Around_The_World
25,000 miles for $2,500 is 10 cents per mile!
10c per mile is the right price, or so I suggested in
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...ight=Hitchcock.
But that was then. This is now.
There was a time not so long ago when many people lamented the great yawning gulf between 35K Elite and 100K Super Elite. Air Canada recently appeared to fix that problem, but as anyone who has been paying attention knows Air Canada never gives anything without taking 14 other things away.
The way to reinstate that massive gap between 100K Super Elites and the scum was to implement co-pays. (They call them "add-ons" to make it sound like they are giving you something, but really they should be called "take-aways" -- or co-pays, as the rest of the world knows them.)
It would only take two TransPac flights as an upgrading Super Elite before you would have already saved $3000. So paying $2500 to get SE is, in the eyes of Air Canada bean counters, a $500 loss.
Air Canada might have sold status at some time in the past (and in fact they did.) But those days are long gone, at least until they implement co-pays for 100K Super Elites as well.
Which is to say... shouldn't be long now.