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Old Feb 18, 2022 | 5:44 pm
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FlyingFiasco
 
Join Date: Jul 2021
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Originally Posted by FlyerGoldII
I am confused about your statement.

A gift card (let us say an e gift card) is sent by email to my name,
So one can access it by entering gift card number and pin.

But could not AC gift cards be listed- eg if one signs onto one's Aeroplan account? in a similar manner that one's AC ticket (revenue or Aeroplan) are listed.
You enter your user id, password - click onto Aeroplan account. Then you click on the link with your AC bookings, and the whole list of upcoming bookings appears.




if one signs into one's Aeroplan account, could not the gift cards assigned to that individual without entering the card number and/or the PIN number.

Obviously, AC does not have that system in place.
So my question- if one loses gift card pin number - what does one do (but one has the gift card number)? I have one gift card in that scenario- I can not remember if there is an outstanding balance on it, or not.


So my second question
I think I had a notification email of a second gift card some time ago - which was obviously sent to me originally by email.

I lost the email. Can I find the gift card online through my AC/Aeroplan account? if so, how? if not, would it help if I contact AC by telephone, to help me find that gift card?

This gift card likely does not have a positive balance, but I want to check that this is indeed the case by accessing this gift card.
A gift card is not assigned to a name. It is, as others have said, like cash. You are being notified that your ticket price has been transferred to a gift card, and you are being given the number and PIN of that gift card. That's where your connection with the card ends. You can give the card to someone else, use it in increments or split it across a dozen people: it doesn't have name assigned to it and it is not associated with your account.

If you lose the PIN, you can't access it anymore.
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