Here comes the claw
 

I Earned Prestige and selected benefites late 2010 but never got them untill january 3rd, when I also earned Elite and selected benefites. And here comes the claw...

Jan 3 2011 Mileage Deduction 1,500 MILES

Jan 3 2011 ELITE BONUS 1,000 STATUS MILES - AIR CANADA PROMOTION 1,000

Jan 3 2011 ELITE BONUS 2,000 STATUS MILES - AIR CANADA PROMOTION 2,000

Jan 1 2011 PRESTIGE BONUS 1,500 SMILES - AIR CANADA PROMOTION 1,500

... and this surprises you why? As RSWilson indicates in the next post - this is what is supposed to happen. Move on...

You say this like it was an unexpected travesty.

This topic has been discussed ad naseum in the past. Get over it...you can't have both Prestige and Elite benefits combined. Enjoy your Elite status and direct your venom at useful things.

Are you prophetic????

Note that the AP website never stopped working for him either. Something's going on here.

The issue is more what will happen with e-certs. When I made Prestige one year I ended up with a whole bunch of SWUs, then I went to Elite in the same year and got additional SSWUS and NAUs - the previous SWUs were not invalidated. Now with e-certs if someone changes status from P to E during the year they may (or may not?) adjust the e-certs to reflect the new status, instead of having the previous additive rule.

AY answered this question.

People moving up in status during the year will not lose previously earned e-credits.

thanks! finally someone else knows what they are talking about.
I've been all over this one in tons of other threads. I have my Elite allotment of eCredits for 2011 and my SE allotment of eCredits for 2011.

Shhhh - be vewy vewy quiet ;)

I'm curious how you got this. I'm assuming you didn't make early SE for 2011 (my condolences if you have!). Does that mean you made your Elite choices prior to Dec 31 and then crossed the 100k threshold afterwards in 2010?


What I'm wondering about is if you get early Elite or SE what are the expiry times of those ecerts. Do they last a year from when you get them or do they expire Feb 28/29?

That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about people who actually move up in status P->E, E->SE, during 2011 via the usual "Early Status" recognition system.

These people will not have their old eCredits removed (just like they never had their old certs taken away).

Does this now mean you do not know what you are talking about?:p;):D

i qualified for elite very early in 2010, at the six month mark i start having my AE nubmer removed at the gate just prior to boarding (after u/g if any). then when december comes along, the system sees that i qualify for Elite for 2011 and asks me kindly to select my E benefits for 2011. when that goes through, i submit a whole heck load of milage requests for the all those flights not credited, and that puts me way over the SE threshold, then the system sees that I now qualify for SE in 2011 and asks to select again. so for my E benefits i selected all eCredits and for SE i select %100 and all eCredits for a total of 95 eCredits for 2011 (excluding my FP eCredits and threshold bonus', which will take me somewhere to 257 eCredits for 2011)

the same technical principle is apply in my case where eCredits do not get taken away just because you qualified for another status after selecting some benefits.

all eCredits expire at the same time 29 Feb 2012, regardless of when they were deposited in your account.

But don't you miss out on a whole bush of threshold upgrades this way?

I wasnt complaining... just saddened... those points looked so nice in my account.... :(

along the way, yes you miss out on them. but in the end you get them once the miles post.

Your scheme makes sense to me (although not sure if I'd be advertising it myself) but exactly how do you "start having your AE number removed"? Do you book flights without inputting it, or simply apply a bit of white-out?

have the GA remove your AE number, preferably in the computer not with whiteout or sharpie :P

Suggestion for Andrew Yiu and Aeroplan
 

The process described by NAJetset seems more like a scam than a scheme - one that Air Canada should look into given the info provided such as the YYJ location.