Aeroplan does not want multiple accounts with same email?
Aug 6, 2019, 6:38 am
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Aug 6, 2019, 8:43 am
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Aug 6, 2019, 10:15 am
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Yes, on top of the stupidity of having to set up email addresses for each of my kids, then comes the necessity of monitoring those addresses.
I can just see in 10 years from now, after kids are of age of majority - " Oh, but we emailed you to tell you that their 200,000 AE miles would expire last month"
I can just see in 10 years from now, after kids are of age of majority - " Oh, but we emailed you to tell you that their 200,000 AE miles would expire last month"
People managed to figure it out. You'll get over this too.
Aug 6, 2019, 10:38 am
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I'd imagine there was a similar level of frustration and outrage when countries and airlines starting requiring individual passengers to have their own passports. A lot of the arguments were similar, "It's stupid, the old way was fine." "Why add unecessary complexity?" and "How will the kid(s) keep track of this?"
People managed to figure it out. You'll get over this too.
People managed to figure it out. You'll get over this too.
Sure people will get over this. But the real difference is, an e-mail address is not a good choice as a unique identifier. All these clueless web sites nonetheless. But in most cases these can be forgotten and new one rebuilt. Not here.
Aug 6, 2019, 1:00 pm
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I'm sure there's something of a security trade-off for that, but there's also value in convenience.
Aug 6, 2019, 2:00 pm
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You seem very focused on this point, but why? Those of us who are real AC FFs have our Aeroplan numbers memorized, sure, and probably those of any relatives whose accounts we manage, but we're a tiny sliver of the population. For many people, using an e-mail as the identifier for sign-on is a lot more convenient. I certainly recall the hassle of just a few years ago when nearly every website required you to have your own username, some of which had unique rules on length, characters allowed, etc, so that not only did you have to remember your password but also your username.
True, but then not really a unique identifier. If my wife wants to use my amazon account she can. Even if not knowing the passport, only thing needed is access to e-mail sent to that address. Which is a very different situation than we are talking about here where different accounts are (still?) supposed to be truly unique. In other words, in most of these cases, the thing has no true cost or inconvenience.
I'm sure there's something of a security trade-off for that, but there's also value in convenience.
For some. But inconvenience for others. Plus, this apparently is forced upon us with no consultation. And seemingly with not much thought about what they are doing. Simply, it should not be up to them to decide for me which address I or my wife wants to use; it's none of their business, period.
Aug 6, 2019, 2:46 pm
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You seem very focused on this point, but why? Those of us who are real AC FFs have our Aeroplan numbers memorized, sure, and probably those of any relatives whose accounts we manage, but we're a tiny sliver of the population. For many people, using an e-mail as the identifier for sign-on is a lot more convenient. I certainly recall the hassle of just a few years ago when nearly every website required you to have your own username, some of which had unique rules on length, characters allowed, etc, so that not only did you have to remember your password but also your username.
I'm sure there's something of a security trade-off for that, but there's also value in convenience.
I'm sure there's something of a security trade-off for that, but there's also value in convenience.
This seems like changing something that no one asked for.
We already have different Aeroplan numbers which are unique identifiers so why do the emails also have to be different ?
Aug 6, 2019, 6:07 pm
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Aug 6, 2019, 11:49 pm
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a 20 something without imagination is designing systems for AC? . I guess the existing AC systems were also designed by a 20 something way back then, these individuals are a 100 something now. And everybody here marvel at the AP/AC systems currently being used.
Aug 7, 2019, 12:19 am
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AE, not AC. AC's systems ( RESIII) was designed over 40 years ago, AC bought it from BA in the early 90's. Long before the general public had email anyway.
Aug 7, 2019, 2:24 am
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Simple solution.
Step 1: Create email address only used for each aeroplan account
Step 2: Setup autoforward for all emails from aeroplan to your existing email account
It will look just like before, other than 30 min of work to setup a few free email addresses and forwarding. We can complain and moan about AC, but I highly doubt they are going to change, so we just need to adapt. As a bonus you can see who aeroplan is selling your to.
Step 1: Create email address only used for each aeroplan account
Step 2: Setup autoforward for all emails from aeroplan to your existing email account
It will look just like before, other than 30 min of work to setup a few free email addresses and forwarding. We can complain and moan about AC, but I highly doubt they are going to change, so we just need to adapt. As a bonus you can see who aeroplan is selling your to.