aircanada.com/aeroplan.com - Experiences/Complaints/Issues
#181



Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Programs: Aeroplan SE AND 1MM, HHonors Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum , L'Accor Platinum
Posts: 9,766
AC arrivals - two issues regarding aircanada.com web site
1. Last week, a flight from Toronto to Vancouver left 1 hr left, and arrived one hour late. However, the web site, as late as a few minutes before the scheduled arrival time, still indicated that the arrival time would be on schedule. I hope this is not the exception. How quickly is the web site updated, after late flight departures and arrivals?
2. Sort of related to point 1 - can one find (on some web site) actual arrival and departure times of past AC flights, including the one alluded by me in the above point?
Thanks.
2. Sort of related to point 1 - can one find (on some web site) actual arrival and departure times of past AC flights, including the one alluded by me in the above point?
Thanks.
#182




Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: YYZ
Programs: HHonors Silver, AC Altitude 25K, AAdvantage, SkyMiles, Bonvoy, and a few more
Posts: 653
Aeroplan.ca
Is anyone one else having difficulty with the website? Every time I try to book a flight it says I've left both the departing and returning date blank, even though I've filled both of them in and have tried the same procedure on 3 different computers. HELP!!!
#183


Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: YHZ. Previously YYC
Posts: 1,952
I had this exact same issues yesterday. Don't know what to say, but it isn't just you.
#184

Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,053
I had that issue this weekend. For me, I had been using airport codes (e.g. YYZ) instead of waiting a second and selecting the matching name that the website suggests. I tried again, this time selecting the airport names, and it worked. Not sure if that'll help.
#185


Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 480
According to AC.com I have moved to Afghanistan! On the booking page, it pre-fills in the billing address and it has me living in Afghanistan (the first country on the drop down menu). I cannot change it to Canada since Canada isn't in the drop down menu. Any clues?
#186
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: YOW
Programs: Aeroplan P
Posts: 21
#187


Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC *P
Posts: 1,812
AP's site is down again in the middle of the day. Perhaps we can call it AP.bomb!
#188
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: AC*SE
Posts: 93
Did anyone notice this before? When I view online transactions or reward bookings that involve Airports such as Minsk (MSQ) or Nice (NCE), the airport name is not displayed. Strange!
The listing then reads like:
LUFTHANSA XXX - Frankfurt (DE) instead of LUFTHANSA XXX Nice (FR) - Frankfurt (DE)
I would have assumed that Aeroplan has a master list of all airports...
The listing then reads like:
LUFTHANSA XXX - Frankfurt (DE) instead of LUFTHANSA XXX Nice (FR) - Frankfurt (DE)
I would have assumed that Aeroplan has a master list of all airports...
#189
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC*SE 2MM, Asia Miles, SPG Gold (life), HH Gold, Golden Circle Jade
Posts: 1,068
Something changed on aircanada.com today for simplified fares booking to Europe. Misbehaves and eventually crashes Safari now.
#190
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Canada
Programs: Marriott Plat; Air Canada E75K; Westjet Platinum
Posts: 1,161
FATAL ERROR: Unable to receive Ajax response (status=500)
This is what I get when I click "view details" after it lists the flights for me to choose.
This is what I get when I click "view details" after it lists the flights for me to choose.
#191




Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: FRA
Programs: AC SE 1MM, UA PP, Hilton LT Diamond, Marriott Titanium Elite, Avis PC
Posts: 3,118
Did anyone notice this before? When I view online transactions or reward bookings that involve Airports such as Minsk (MSQ) or Nice (NCE), the airport name is not displayed. Strange!
The listing then reads like:
LUFTHANSA XXX - Frankfurt (DE) instead of LUFTHANSA XXX Nice (FR) - Frankfurt (DE)
I would have assumed that Aeroplan has a master list of all airports...
The listing then reads like:
LUFTHANSA XXX - Frankfurt (DE) instead of LUFTHANSA XXX Nice (FR) - Frankfurt (DE)
I would have assumed that Aeroplan has a master list of all airports...
#192


Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,573
I guess this belongs here because AC.com is being stupid. But maybe it's me. Hopefully it's me, in fact, since it's easier to fix my behaviour than AC.com's.
Let's say I want to fly YUL-LHR-YYZ-YUL. I want a connection in YYZ where 4hr < x < 23h59.
I set up a multi-city trip, YUL-LHR "anytime". LHR-YYZ "morning". YYZ-YUL "evening" (the latest option).
If I choose the 14:10 arrival into YYZ, the next segment offers eight departures from 12:00 to 18:30. I can't find any way to get it to offer later departures!
There are several things wrong with this. First, the first four are impossible connections (three of them depart before arrival, the fourth is a 0:50 Intl-Dom connection). Second, at this point it has no idea what kind of ticket I'm buying, whether it allows stopovers or just connections, etc. Third, there's no way I can find to get later flights (I was hoping for 7pm or so).
Am I doing something wrong? Luckily I won't actually be booking through AC.com this time so it doesn't matter but it would be pretty stupid to pay $30 or whatever because it won't give me what I want.
And I know it's not mistakenly limiting to 4hr connections because the last one is 4:20.
Is there any way around this? For research I can probably just use another site but it's frustrating.
Thanks!
=aw
Let's say I want to fly YUL-LHR-YYZ-YUL. I want a connection in YYZ where 4hr < x < 23h59.
I set up a multi-city trip, YUL-LHR "anytime". LHR-YYZ "morning". YYZ-YUL "evening" (the latest option).
If I choose the 14:10 arrival into YYZ, the next segment offers eight departures from 12:00 to 18:30. I can't find any way to get it to offer later departures!
There are several things wrong with this. First, the first four are impossible connections (three of them depart before arrival, the fourth is a 0:50 Intl-Dom connection). Second, at this point it has no idea what kind of ticket I'm buying, whether it allows stopovers or just connections, etc. Third, there's no way I can find to get later flights (I was hoping for 7pm or so).
Am I doing something wrong? Luckily I won't actually be booking through AC.com this time so it doesn't matter but it would be pretty stupid to pay $30 or whatever because it won't give me what I want.
And I know it's not mistakenly limiting to 4hr connections because the last one is 4:20.Is there any way around this? For research I can probably just use another site but it's frustrating.
Thanks!
=aw
#193


Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,573
... okay Travelocity.ca lets me specify preferred times and is reasonable. But for YYZ-YUL, if I say 7:00pm, it only offers 9:00pm. If I say 6:00pm, it only offers 9:00pm!
If I just look for a one-way fare on ac.com, there are flights in Tango at 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00. 6,7, and 8 are expensive but the others are <$100.
... Expedia.ca offers nothing after 6:00pm, perhaps enforcing the (wrong) 4hr rule, but still offers departures from YYZ as early as 7:30am!
=aw
If I just look for a one-way fare on ac.com, there are flights in Tango at 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00. 6,7, and 8 are expensive but the others are <$100.
... Expedia.ca offers nothing after 6:00pm, perhaps enforcing the (wrong) 4hr rule, but still offers departures from YYZ as early as 7:30am!
=aw
#194


Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,573
American Express Travel https://go.americanexpress-travel.com actually let me build it properly (as a multi-city itinerary with a 5hr connection in YYZ) and priced it at U$785.80 ($434 for airfare and the rest fees!).
=aw
=aw
#195
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: YVR
Posts: 9,998
Latest Aeroplan scheme to extract booking fees
Trying to book an award flight this morning I encountered an entirely new technique implemented by Aeroplan to make their website useless. After filling in all the blanks and pressing [FIND] I'm informed that
Those two errors are apparently
Notwithstanding that the fields are actually called "Departing on" and "Returning on" and not "Leaving on" and "Returning", they both actually contain valid dates as automatically entered by the website itself when I clicked on the calendar.
It boggles the mind just how many years of training and intense study it must take to become this incompetent.
Oops! There were 2 errors on this page.
The following field is blank/missing: Leaving on.
The following field is blank/missing: Returning.
The following field is blank/missing: Returning.
It boggles the mind just how many years of training and intense study it must take to become this incompetent.

