Question: Fixed Mileage or Market Fare?
Jan 4, 2018, 12:53 pm
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 40
Fixed Mileage or Market Fare?
This may seem obvious to everyone else, but I'm finishing up holidays and am logy...
Taking the family to the US in a couple months - Fixed Mileage with Priority Rewards is 60K points and just under $600 in taxes. Market Fare is 132K points and about $80 cheaper. If points aren't a concern, and the $80 difference isn't a major factor, is there anything else that should convince me one way or another? Fixed Mileage is X class, which is lowest of the low, and Market Fare is W class, which is Flex in Canada and Tango in the US - so more points accumulation and less chance of getting bumped - anything else I'm missing?
Taking the family to the US in a couple months - Fixed Mileage with Priority Rewards is 60K points and just under $600 in taxes. Market Fare is 132K points and about $80 cheaper. If points aren't a concern, and the $80 difference isn't a major factor, is there anything else that should convince me one way or another? Fixed Mileage is X class, which is lowest of the low, and Market Fare is W class, which is Flex in Canada and Tango in the US - so more points accumulation and less chance of getting bumped - anything else I'm missing?
Jan 6, 2018, 8:44 pm
#3
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This may seem obvious to everyone else, but I'm finishing up holidays and am logy...
Taking the family to the US in a couple months - Fixed Mileage with Priority Rewards is 60K points and just under $600 in taxes. Market Fare is 132K points and about $80 cheaper. If points aren't a concern, and the $80 difference isn't a major factor, is there anything else that should convince me one way or another? Fixed Mileage is X class, which is lowest of the low, and Market Fare is W class, which is Flex in Canada and Tango in the US - so more points accumulation and less chance of getting bumped - anything else I'm missing?
Taking the family to the US in a couple months - Fixed Mileage with Priority Rewards is 60K points and just under $600 in taxes. Market Fare is 132K points and about $80 cheaper. If points aren't a concern, and the $80 difference isn't a major factor, is there anything else that should convince me one way or another? Fixed Mileage is X class, which is lowest of the low, and Market Fare is W class, which is Flex in Canada and Tango in the US - so more points accumulation and less chance of getting bumped - anything else I'm missing?
Jan 7, 2018, 6:50 am
#4
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Prince Edward Island
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The only real advantages of market fare are a much better choice of flights and generally much lower taxes. Neither of these seems to be an issue in your case, so go for the 60K. Unless this has changed recently, fixed mileage rewards allow you to select your seat for free, but the market fare does not, so that would eat most of the $80 savings.
Jan 9, 2018, 6:12 pm
#5
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Thanks for the answers, all - itinerary's changed slightly...when I choose Market Fare, it says it'll be Class K from YYZ-DTW, and then Class W DTW-YYZ-YOW. Looking at the AC Fare Options Booking Classes page (https://www.aeroplan.com/static/pdf/...t_JUL27_EN.pdf) I read that as as Tango - 50% accumulation on the way to Detroit, and Flex on the way home. Am I misunderstanding how it works?
Jan 9, 2018, 6:13 pm
#6
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Thanks for the answers, all - itinerary's changed slightly...when I choose Market Fare, it says it'll be Class K from YYZ-DTW, and then Class W DTW-YYZ-YOW. Looking at the AC Fare Options Booking Classes page (https://www.aeroplan.com/static/pdf/...t_JUL27_EN.pdf) I read that as as Tango - 50% accumulation on the way to Detroit, and Flex on the way home. Am I misunderstanding how it works?
There is no accumulation on Aeroplan tickets.
Jan 9, 2018, 6:22 pm
#7
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: YVR/YEG/YYZ depending on day
Programs: E35K, FPC Platinum
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I just used aeroplane miles to book business class (I) return ticket YVR-YYZ. Taxes were only 60$. Fixed mileage flight options were fewer but suited me, so only 50K aeroplan miles.
I understand no AQM for this, but as its business (don't know what ticket type I means)- would I still get priority luggage and MLL access?
Thanks!
I understand no AQM for this, but as its business (don't know what ticket type I means)- would I still get priority luggage and MLL access?
Thanks!
Jan 10, 2018, 5:53 am
#9
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: YQB
Programs: AC SE
Posts: 2,139
I just used aeroplane miles to book business class (I) return ticket YVR-YYZ. Taxes were only 60$. Fixed mileage flight options were fewer but suited me, so only 50K aeroplan miles.
I understand no AQM for this, but as its business (don't know what ticket type I means)- would I still get priority luggage and MLL access?
Thanks!
I understand no AQM for this, but as its business (don't know what ticket type I means)- would I still get priority luggage and MLL access?
Thanks!
