Originally Posted by
Jumper Jack
Does the offer still stand?
Well I have requirements for the person too. I haven't spent enough time with you to commit to sugar daddying you onto a vacation with me
Originally Posted by
j2simpso
BTW EF isn't perfect for this either. There were numerous days where EF listed 1 Aeroplan seat available on Canadian North only to find out that it was not available on that date. From my experience, you want to have at least 2 Aeroplan seats available on EF for Canadian North to have a shot at booking but again there's no guarantee given how odd the booking process is.
If you want to make your life easier you may want to also consider flying out of YWG or YUL (in addition to YOW) to increase availability. For me it's no big deal flying to YUL or YWG as I live near YXU since those flights are typically cheap to purchase with cash and I don't want to pay Aeroplan's insane taxes and surcharges for the luxury of flying on AC. It's also important to note that the 15,000 miles only covers the flight to/from Iqaluit (i.e. if you use Aeroplan to fly from Toronto to Iqaluit it'll be 25,000). Equally important, these flights to Iqaluit seem to take place early in the morning (i.e. my flight from YOW to YFB took off at 9 AM) so you may want to fly into YOW/YUL/YWG the night before because it would suck to miss the connection (would have to wait another day at least).
I'd be coming from SFO, in J, so I'd already expect to pay 50k round-trip. As such, I also don't care what airports I go through.
Good advice all around though - I may finally take this trip.