Originally Posted by
bingocallerb22
Right you are. But worse. To LIM it was 75k in Biz, then they pulled a fast one and moved Peru to SouthSA so 95k, and now to 110K!! Thats a 47% increase in a blink of an eye. For sure, other FFP, indeed alliance, a way better proposition.
Originally Posted by
grandgourmand
Oh good catch. That's shady. And hasn't that routw been Rouge'd?. Thankfully there are regularly good J fares to LIM
Originally Posted by
bingocallerb22
LOL good J fare, but not on AC. Can do YOW-LIM First/BIZ all the way for $1500 on UA but $2400 on AC.
WRT to FFP I regularly do much better with OneWorld status for one, for the other, I just can't seem to accumulate AP miles fast enough to keep up with the frequent chart increases.
For what it is worth, you can do YYZ-MIA-LIM return in AA J for:
60K miles with AA
80K miles with CX
63K miles with JL
60K miles with AS
There will be no YQ for this reward booking from Canada to LIM regardless of which program you use whereas, lol, one can only guess how much $$$ AC will ask you to pay in addition to 110K miles. So it isn't just almost double the amount of miles, the scam charges one has to pay must also be factored in. Sure, there are lots of "free TD miles" floating somewhere, 15K here for a checking account, 25K here for another churn oh and another AMEX sign up here... It's simply not sustainable, those miles aren't actually free, soon or later, the reality will catch up when the banks realize they are losing a ton of money on leechers / churners and when that happens, Aeroplan will be in for a rude awakening, just like many of those oil industry rich who couldn't blink their eyes for spending $200,000 when oil was over $100 but now, well, the reality is surely different.
When a FFP needs to seriously devalue its program every other year, you know something is very wrong with it. If the U.S. had real estate bubble, in Canada we have Aeroplan bubble.