Originally Posted by
traveller1971
Folks,
a quick review of this thread shows some fairly old references to Air Canada's lack of "Status Matching". Does anybody have any recent experience in success with Aeroplan and how did you achieve it?. I'm currently Platinum (i.e OneWorld Emerald) with Qantas and looking to do a whole lot of Canadian travel this year. Hopefully to Super-elite, as opposed to Elite
Rejected every time I tried, so I rarely fly them. If you're travelling within Canada, you don't have much choice.
But if you're flying transborder, there are lots of domestic options to Canada. Plus even if you get Elite/SuperElite status, what's the point? Their upgrade policy sucks and their fares are generally higher than AA.
I'm not going to pay $1,500 RT Y on a once a day AC nonstop SFO-YUL with no upgrade (they don't honor UA 1P) when I can pay $400-$500 RT on AA SFO-DFW/ORD-YUL with an upgrade.
I would stick with oneworld and QF/AA.