Originally Posted by 24left (Post 25500722)

, they are not going to be worth more next year.


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Originally Posted by jerryhung (Post 25496030)

of course you can BOOK now, at old rate, for whatever dates available
AC is like 355 days out, so you should see Sept 2016 availability already

Big questions is whether VOLUNTARY CHANGES after Dec 15 triggers the NEW rates or not

Originally Posted by exbrit (Post 25501979)

I agree, this really is the big question. Spend 105,000 points now on UK to Thailand, then change a date or flight after Dec. 15th, and find out you need another 45,000 points to do so? Surely the AC/ Aeroplan folks monitoring this forum can answer this now?

Originally Posted by Wpgjetse (Post 25499076)

Does $$$ in your bank account go up because of inflation?

Originally Posted by mikeyyz (Post 25476784)

The good news:

We will now be able to book one-way flights in any region.

The bad news:

They're tackling a lot of chart sweet spots in J/F. At least we get ~50 days notice.

https://www4.aeroplan.com/static/pdf...s-Chart-en.pdf

Canada to Europe 1 in J +20,000 in F +15,000
Europe 1 to Africa in J +20,000
Europe 1 to Australia in J +55,000
Business and First Class within Asia 1 is doubling... 30,000 -> 80,000 and 50,000 -> 110,000
Hawaii to Asia +75,000

Glad I just booked my Europe 1 to Hawaii... going up 40,000 in J too.

Region changes... the Asia ones suck for me:

- Poland moved into Europe 2
- Luxembourg moved into Europe 1
- Mongolia & Eastern Russia moved into Asia 1
- Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam moved into Asia 2 (damnit!)

Originally Posted by mikekay (Post 25504445)

I drafted up an excel sheet to show the differences.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byg...ew?usp=sharing

What a joke I knew it was going to happen when TD got on the aeroplan bandwagon...

Originally Posted by ac777 (Post 25505142)

There is another change that is creeping in slowly----I was looking for NRT-YYC in Feb. It routed me ( priority awards) NRT-YVR-YYC with the NRT-YVR in Y and YVR-YYC in J but full J award redemption cost. The flight has 60% seats open according to the chart. AP is doing this more and more. If I were to do something like this I will fall afoul of laws but AP keeps getting away with this. (Of course I can pay 967000 mies and get a market fare seat but I refuse to do this as I think that is a bigger rip off!)

Originally Posted by Guava (Post 25494120)

80K Aeroplan miles? Lol no, try more like 110K Aeroplan miles maybe.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5777/...49cb246202.jpg

Air China does not have "Business Class" within China even though the plane is really a 2 class aircraft but you will still have to pay for "First Class" regardless and that will be 110K miles, thank you very much.

Ridiculous? Yes, it is. Does Aeroplan care? Non, absolutely not. As far Aeroplan is concerned, we are just a bunch of crazies talking on the internet that has no resemblance to its actual customer base. In the mind of Aeroplan executives, their customers are the most docile, gullible and simplest persons ever - just put a TV ad here and there, voilà! No need to even disclose the kind of fees uh... "taxes" (within the published award charts) they are expected to pay in order to try to redeem their miles. Oh and they expire within just a year if you bank there for more than 365 days without touching them even though no other well known FFP have such anti-consumer policy. Gotta love the shortermism of these executives, because if there is any problem within 3-4 years, it will be someone else's problems, not theirs because by then, they will already off the plane with their golden parachute.

Originally Posted by pmax (Post 25505722)

On 3-class planes they offer business class.

Originally Posted by mikekay (Post 25504445)

I drafted up an excel sheet to show the differences.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byg...ew?usp=sharing

What a joke I knew it was going to happen when TD got on the aeroplan bandwagon...

Originally Posted by Stranger (Post 25505750)

Mostly domestic legs of international flights. We once flew PVG-PEK on a decrepit A340 in business for just a tad more than Y.

Originally Posted by Stranger (Post 25505750)

BTW food and wine were pretty bad. But than same is true of F on two class planes.

Originally Posted by Pseudo Nim (Post 25487137)

So this means that intra-Japan flights will go from 20K to 40K?

That's completely insane. Not to mention they can't even book intra-Japan online (because taxes are $0) so any reservation requires a call into the call center, and arguing with agents for an hour that the $30 fee should be waived.