purchasing points
 

It says here that the price of topping up has gone up ("Mileage can be purchased at 4¢ CAD per mile, plus applicable taxes").

Is this just recent? Seems to me I only paid $.03 per point when I needed a couple of hundred to clean out my account when the dreaded change fee for awards tickets was announced.

Not much fanfare from AC over this, methinks.

No wonder they allow you to buy up to 30% of your required points.

This is indeed a very recent change. I think there was a tiny blurb somewhere in the last statement.

I believe that it came about as of Nov 1, 2001. Obviously quite an increase in percentage terms.

a 25% increase.

I presumed that "Tractor Boy"'s comment was meant to be rhetorical. But since airbus320 is taking it literally, it's actually a 33% (1/3) increase not 25%.

[This message has been edited by megamiles (edited 12-17-2001).]

If memory serves, they are also upping the number of miles you can purchase from 10% of a reward to 30%.

How about that? Give us less miles on a flown domestic flight but raises the number of miles that we can purchase instead. Is that really encouraging customer loyalty?