Is this Aeroplan award allowed - I would hope so, but I would predict not?
Sep 22, 2007, 5:39 am
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Is this Aeroplan award allowed - I would hope so, but I would predict not?
Ottawa to Quebec City - stop
Quebec City to Toronto - stop
Toronto to Ottawa.
I hope that one can book this itinerary using one Aeroplan award.
Quebec City to Toronto - stop
Toronto to Ottawa.
I hope that one can book this itinerary using one Aeroplan award.
Sep 22, 2007, 6:09 am
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If YQB is the destination, it totally depends on whether or not stopovers are permitted on the 15K shorthaul reward... I thought that they were not, but that would be worth checking on the Aeroplan website.
Sep 22, 2007, 8:40 am
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Are 2 turnovers permitted - or are the YOW-YQB-YYZ and YQB-YYZ-YOW considered 2 points of turnaround.
I ask, because a few days ago, I asked an analogous question to the Aeroplan SE desk.
I wanted an Aeroplan award from YYZ to PHX or LAS and back to YOW. That was allowed. However, the agent stated that I could start in YYZ and go to one of PHX or LAS, and then go to YOW, and then YYZ. That, from my perspective, is considered a second turnaround. However, she did stay that one could not do this whereby one flew from PHX or LAS to YUL, and then back to YYZ.
Sep 22, 2007, 8:44 am
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That's stretching it quite a bit. If YOW is your starting point and YQB is your destination, how can YYZ be stopover on the return? Or if YYZ is your destination, how can YQB be a stopover on the origination? YUL could be a legitimate stopover on the return or outbound.
This is also covered by the same backtracking and MPM considerations as your other thread...and I believe about which you've posted many, many times in the past.
This is also covered by the same backtracking and MPM considerations as your other thread...and I believe about which you've posted many, many times in the past.
Sep 22, 2007, 9:34 am
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Originally Posted by Homer Simpson
Hmmm...turnovers
One point of turnaround and one stopover permitted. Seems pretty clear to me.
Sep 22, 2007, 11:02 am
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Sicne the AE website is quite hopeless in locating certain information, I went back to one of those really ancient printed guides and although some things have changed, I doubt this one has:
"Backtracking is not permitted on reward travel. This means that travel must go in one direction only: east or west, north or south, and cannot bypass your point of origin."
Recalling both geography and geometry, it seems to me that the proposed routing is a backtrack since YYZ is southwest of YOW and YQB is east of YOW and YYZ.
Travel also must be on "allowable routings" and I am not sure YQB-YOW would allow a routing via YYZ.
"Backtracking is not permitted on reward travel. This means that travel must go in one direction only: east or west, north or south, and cannot bypass your point of origin."
Recalling both geography and geometry, it seems to me that the proposed routing is a backtrack since YYZ is southwest of YOW and YQB is east of YOW and YYZ.
Travel also must be on "allowable routings" and I am not sure YQB-YOW would allow a routing via YYZ.