Lifetime Award
 

I understand that Air Canada (in addition to Canadian) has a lifetime award for fliers who accumulate 1,000,000 miles or more.

Does anyone know how that works?

Don't know about AC Aeroplan, but Cdn+ offers lifetime ExecPlat to those with 1 million Q points (i.e. only flight miles plus class of service bonus). But you raise an interesting issue. When Cdn+ accounts are folded into Aeroplan, many of us will have more than 1 million points/miles (I'm just shy of 900K on Cdn+ and 600K on AC) so will they continue to extend this benefit, or move the post to 2 million?

By the way, welcome to our forums, Cam. There is no need to copy an entire post. You can just highlight the few points from the original that you may wish to comment on, or just make your comment parphrasing the original point raised. This helps keep the forums manageable length-wise.

By the way, welcome to our forums, Cam. There is no need to copy an entire post. You can just highlight the few points from the original that you may wish to comment on, or just make your comment parphrasing the original point raised. This helps keep the forums manageable length-wise.[/B][/QUOTE]
Thanks for that - I, too, am just shy of 1,000,000 q-miles on Canadaia.

AC doesn't have lifetime status. I think CP's will disappear in the merger (though they will probably honour existing lifers at the Élite level).

CP's million mile status is out of line with other's in the industry. AA gives only Gold for 1m (but admittedly that is all miles, not just Q-miles). UA gives lifetime PremEx (equivalent to OW Sapphire). I don't know of anyone other than CP who gives lifetime status at the top of the band.

I'm nowhere near the million mile marker in Aeroplan, but I am well into the "six digits." How do we find out our total accumulated since enrollment??

Ask.

Write to Aéroplan and ask for your total accumulation. They should be able to produce a figure for you.

I thought I saw something fairly recently (last 3 months) on AA or UA threads about top tier lifetime eligibility at the two million mile mark?

UA = 1Mio (one Million) effective (base) flight miles on UA (no code-shares, no *Alliance-partners) = life-long PremierExecutive (= second highest level and StarAllianceGold)

AA Platinum is not top tier but like UA PremEx:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum71/HTML/000697.html

[This message has been edited by BlondeBomber (edited 06-24-2000).]

I called Aeroplan this afternoon, and inquired about how many miles I had accumulated in the program since becoming a member in 1989. After a few moments, the agent came back on the line with my total. Curious, I also called Cdn+ .... spoke to a couple of different agents over there. None of them seemed to have a clue! "All we have is your running total..." http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

You will get different answers from different people on both the Aeroplan Elite and Platinum desks. This tells me that neither know yet the ground rules (and there are probably none) though I do believe CP is somewhat ahead of AC in this regard.

Are you sure about AC not having lifteimte status? The Elite desk told me they do but were very vague about it.

Well, if they do, nobody is talking about it.

Usually airlines hold this up as an incentive to keep high end flyers from defecting to the competition.

While perusing an internal magazine for AC employees called Horizons,I came upon the following sentence hidden in an article about Aeroplan: "For 2000, some members achieved Lifetime Super Elite status, entitling them to Super Elite benefits year after year." It appears that there such a status as Lifetime Super Elite. It must be a secret... I agree with you AC*SE: why keep this incentive hidden, it is good marketing tool to encourage this level of loyalty. There are times that I wonder about AC communication plans. Has anyone received such status? and willing to share this good news with the community ?

Well guys I'm afraid their communications will get no better once they lock up the monopoly and CP bites the dust. That's one of the reasons I'm leanng toward a OneWorld alliance.