delpiero223

Stumbled upon this Air Canada offer from Switzerland to Costa Rica today. While the Economy Basic fare (€350 / USD 415) is quite attractive, it's worth to pay up. The Economy Latitude fare is just about € 65 more each way and books into Air Canada's B class. Also allows up to 2x 23 kg (50 lbs) of luggage, free cancellation until DoD and free seat reservation including bulkhead and exit row.

B class on Air Canada earns 100% to 150% with many Star Alliance programs, resulting in:

• 19,000 miles at Aegean Miles+Bonus
• 19,000 miles at Miles&More
• 15.900 miles at Air Canada Aeroplan
• 15.900 miles + 2.600 PQP at United MileagePlus
• 12.700 miles at a couple of other programs

Unfortunately, a minimum stay of 10 days applies. Anyone who doesn't want to travel to Costa Rica might be able to do some cross-ticketing. No stopovers are allowed.

Possible routings include:

• BSL-FRA-YUL-SJO
• ZRH-YYZ-SJO
• ZRH-MAD-YYZ-SJO
• ZRH-LHR-YUL-SJO
• GVA-MUC-YYZ-LIR
• ZRH-YUL-SJO (first leg operated by Swiss)

YYZ/YUL - SJO flights are scheduled with Boeing 787-8 aircraft. Liberia is possible as well, but a bit more expensive and flown with 737 Max.

I tried to book it with a 23h layover in YTZ, but unfortunately wasn't successful. Redirect from Google Flights isn't working, Air Canada's website doesn't allow fare selection when booking more than 2 legs. Managed to squeeze in 22h in YYZ via the regular Air Canada Search. Booking went through and the ticket has been issued within minutes.

Google flights link:
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...CAEQABgA&gl=US







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whitethunder

Nice fare, FYI for any UA members, you can easily upgrade AC segments with UA Miles (I did it for a latitude fare from YYZ-FRA in Feb on the UA site and was super easy)

This page explains it:

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...de-awards.html

delpiero223

Those cheap light fares are still available, but Latitude / B Fare are now pricing at USD 1,000.