Originally Posted by
Bonaventure
Flights intra-Asia in premium cabins are very expensive, so while it's not a great change, it's still an acceptable/mediocre retail CPM.
Bangkok to Hong Kong 2 ways on Emirates in J = $800 (if you're lucky, you can get this in F)
Aeroplan will now charge 80,000 points plus maybe $250 in scamcharges.
There is no real comparison there, the Emirates paid flight wins hands down.
Narita -> Shanghai -> Hong Kong you can do for $800 as well, and this would be 80k points and $250 scamcharges again.
I was already in some of these cases buying instead of spending 30k points.
On the shortest routes where you have Air Asia it's not even worth flying it in business class because the cost differential is so big and sometimes AA is just really convenient.
I can't see any way I would redeem for an asia 1 -> asia 1 with the new charge.