One of the examples they give is

• An Aeroplan Elite Status Member who links their Starbucks Rewards account, links their Uber account, and earns points with the LCBO will receive the Bonus SQM, SQS and SQD

To me, that implies no need to have a card to qualify.

My biggest unknown is whether flight pass activity will count. I certainly hope so.

@quinzinho
No need to apologize. You're not spamming anything. And my earlier reply was to another poster, not you.

I agree that some of the T&C wording can be confusing, at the very least based on the questions and discussion in this thread. I assume that AC marketing had legal review and approval before this was issued. It's not the first promo where the T&C was confusing or interpreted differently by readers. The whole point of the discussion here to to navigate this and perhaps benefit from helpful input from others.
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I'm with you quinzinho and will be establising and linking accounts for DW who isn't a Primary.
The problem here is that it is very open to interpretation. I think it is like that missing bullet in another T+C a while back.
Per the different instructions sent to me and DW : GET (her as secondary cardholder) or HOLD (me as primary) premium card as the primary cardholder were listed as one of the 5 options of which you had to do 3. Plus it was the last one in the line which is rarely the most pivotal.
All the other promos have been very upfront about being for cardholders. The Primary cardholder distinction was always lower down in the T+C also.
AE marketing are pretty good at what they do I think. If this was about making people get a card, they wouldn't hide it.
More gain to AE to entice you into a premium CC than to mislead you into linking Uber or Starbucks for a couple of months and then getting out on a technicality and eroding loyalty at the same time.

It just occurred to me, this site needs betting chips. Earn them like Priority rewards for posts, then whenever these debates happen you have to bet one. If you lose all your chips, you can't make predictions until you earn another.
I'm going all in that Primary cardholder refers only to activity 5, not eligibility. I will accept my gold bracelet as an NFT

Sorry for confusion. #59 is from the website https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/...ification.html
and not from email invitation.

Did anyone without Aeroplan Credit Card (as a primary member) receive this promotion email with "Don't have one yet?..." sentence?
If so, the recipient could more likely to be eligible even without the card. Otherwise could be targeted to the card holders.
I understand and agree that email invitation is not as official as T&C but T&C is very much ambiguous for eligibility as highlighted.

I only received HOLD sentence expression email that's why I'm asking.

Hey. that's interesting! For me (without Aeroplan credit card) it states: "Get and hold a core or premium Aeroplan credit card".
Good find. Seems indeed targeted.

Can one be sure that the word "cash" refers to revenue ticket (however paid for) rather than an Aeroplan ticket booked by points.
When I initially read the phrase with that word, I interpreted it to mean payment by cash (ie interac or other debit card) rather than credit card.

I am primary VIP cardholder, but don't think that I got a promotion email. Mrs. PITUK (not a CC holder) didn't get one either.

I would guess that excluding CC payments would really piss off their CC partners, so expect that CC payments are OK. Interac and debit aren't technically "cash" either.

Same problem here.

Nice that they're including the Chase card for those of us who aren't Canadian residents. The Uber and Starbucks account links don't seem to work with American versions of either account so no benefit there.

For Starbucks it is easy to create a new Canadian account with alternative email address. For Uber, you need to have Canadian SMS but public free sms text service could be overridden by somebody by 4/30 so you might need your own Canadian number to register. US account does not work for both to link.

Small unmarked bills only.

I am not sure anyone has the answer to this question, but I have a paid J flight that leaves in the afternoon on April 30th, and would land after midnight on May 1st EST.

Since it departs on April 30th, would it be eligible for the bonus SQx? Or does the whole flight have to be completed by then?

It's always scheduled departure time.

Thanks! Didn't see this in the T&C.