Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
Doubtful. The airline (and Aeroplan) will work hard to attribute the cancellations to force majeure, so a refund is likely all you'll get.
Aeroplan has the ability to force open revenue space on AC when flights are cancelled. It's possible that this may change given the current carnage, but what's also true is that bookings are
way down and award availability is way up, especially in the short term. So there's no guarantee, but I like OP's chances a lot better than you seem to.
Originally Posted by
shore9
It was extremely difficult to find 4 J seats on a route where they only sell 24J, not to mention being able to book it for the duration of time that we wanted.
20J or 30J, depending on whether it's operated by 788 or 789
Not sure what's on the route these days.