Why, where did those numbers come from?? How about gifting E75 for 50K AQD and 150K AQM, makes as much sense.

I assume the numbers are just high enough to prevent Jack's dad from gifting him E50K :p

The issue I have with the changes for March 1, 2017 has to do with the timing of the announcement.
After paying/flying/qualifying all of 2016, the "privileges" are changed suddenly with only 6 weeks left in the year.
Regardless of whether or not you feel the changes are reasonable, changing the rules of the game at this point in the year is unfair.

Has Air Canada done this in the past?

Every year :p

If you give them these kind of ideas, they are just going to make E50K gifting a threshold gift...

On another note, it would be sad to be the E75K with 150K AQM but no threshold gift because didn't get enough AQD to make SE.

If E50K was a threshold gift, I think more than one SE would be happy.

Matter of fact, I am almost willing to bet that this itself would be enough to convince a couple of FFs to stick with AC.

Making the program worse by cutting a key benefit will convince people to stay with AC?
??????

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Yes.

Because real SEs will be able to select eUps AND gift E50K.

So technically, it would be an enhancement for the customers that count.

With many SEs having SO or family (or even friends) that would probably love to *G extended to them.

Think of an SEs wife wanting to travel with benefits without needing the husband around.

Pretty sure it's

SE 100,000 AQM / $20,000 AQD
50k 50,000 AQM / $6,000 AQD

add them up.

Which is why I said upthread that it's fair to say Air Canada has yet to ask anyone for proof of residency, whatever wording they have in their T&C... They've just been assuming residence = mailing address, which actually could be annoying for someone who is say, a US resident, but prefers to receive their ancillary Canadian crap mail in Canada... you know, one of many homes, pick it up once every few months kind of thing.

And I'm surprised that there isn't a perceived conflict of interest for these public servants... It could be construed to be a "gift".

You could just pay for her J? What other benefits? It's just *G, not SE.

But anyhow, if it was a threshold gift, imagine, you'd have to fly 150k before you can grant that gift for the same benefit year? Aside from yyznomad, that means the benefit year for your spouse or whoever would only start mid-year?

Suffice it to say, the 50k gift is really only one of economic benefit. Everything you're granted with that status can be purchased independently.

Mrs.acysb87 has this concern,often :(

Not this one. It looks like AC puts a 250.00 gift value on the 150K threshold. I suspect they value E50K higher than 250.00. With the AE gift card option, you would be giving up actual cash for the E50K gift (500.00 if at the 200K threshold, 1,000.00 if at the 250K threshold). Instead, many people are giving eUps back at the end of the season. I will be giving more than 50 eUps back. That means that the eUps I forgave to gift the E50K to my son actually had no value to me at all.

The last time they waited this long to announce the next year's qualification, they dropped the AQD on us. What lovely trick do we have in store?

My wife loves her E50K lifetime I gave her.

They may not have a fly Canadian policy, but since most Canadian government travel is within Canada, it would be hard to fly non Canadian airlines. Also, employees must fly airlines that the CDN government have agreements with first.