Originally Posted by
canopus27
This is a little bizarre. If Aeroplan was still an entirely separate company, then it would make lots of sense ... they were just continuing to sign up new partners.
However, now that Aeroplan is just a part of Air Canada, it seems odd to enable flights on other airlines, that are not part of the Air Canada partner network. It also sounds as though the deal is only about non-status mileage accumulation - by my read of this text, you won't even be able to spend your AP miles on reward flights on Etihad.
That's bizarre. What's the point of not having it count towards status?
Do Etihad and AC interline currently?
I would assume it's a similar situation to what AA is doing with Westjet where you can only earn miles, not redeem. Though Westjet miles DO count for status there. (though of course AA allows earning AND redeeming in their partnership with Etihad... so go figure)