Originally Posted by
EqualOpp
playing around with the aeroplan.com site and found plenty of biz seats
to all the destinations, with some short hops in coach...even flying on ANA and Singapore and Air Canada had minimal taxes. But, I guess the problem comes with the MPM?
For:
sea-nrt-bkk-per-jnb-gru-yyz-yvr-sea
comes out to 28,000 miles.
And I'm limited by the MPM from sea-?? JNB or PER? A bit confused on this point. Never used ExpertFlyer before...but I reckon I could try.
Many things:
Aeroplan no longer uses a published mpm, so expert flyer doesn't help much.
Mpm is calculated origin to destination each way, not round trip.
Jnb is YVR's antipode so from Seattle it should be the same too. Going through South America should be ok, but I don't think going through Perth is.
Singapore flights aren't charged fuel surcharges, but Ana and AC do (this matters in the next point)
Looking at individual legs works for availability, but is not reflective of the taxes and surcharges you would pay on a full trip. Aeroplan has a tendency to charge the yq on origin to destination, so YVR to Australia would cost me 450 on AC even if I route through Japan (which has government capped charges) and take Singapore airlines (who isn't charged). Only way to avoid this is to take surcharge free airlines on the trans Pacific and trans Atlantic legs