CP will leave by summer
 

CP will leave Oneworld by summer. Milton confirmed this in an interview that's on the Toronto Star today.

When in Summer? June 1st? June 30th? July? August? End of summer? Mid-summer?

How many more days to D-Day?

I think Milton & friends meant April, when the summer schedule comes out.

I cashed in some points a few weeks ago to get tickets on AA, a OneWorld carrier, for use in August. Hope I can still use the tickets!

AA will definitely stay in Oneworld, so you should have no problem using the ticket.

One of the usual scenarios with any airline withdrawal is that booked rewards are honoured, and that any reward certificates are good for a further 6 - 12 months.

That was certainly the case with CX's departure from Aeroplan

With CP gone, does anyone know how might Oneworld connect their passengers into Canada? (eg. Vancouver-Calgary and Toronto-Montreal passengers for CX)

just curious. thanks.

CX will connect using Air Canada or Canadian. They have always have fare agreements with either for their internal connections. It doesn't mean that when one is affiliated with an alliance that you have to stick all your service agreements with them!

Then at that time, you may need to have two membership card handy, one from iw, another one from Star, if you are traveling CX from HK to Calgary.

AA has secured codeshare rights with AC/CP in return for waiving their equity rights in CP.

1W pax will likely be able to use AA codeshares to get around Canada or get from AA hubs to Canada.

AC*SE, you raise an interesting issue by suggesting we could still get oneworld partner miles flying AC/CP flights bearing AA codeshare numbers on intra-Canada flights, after Cdn leaves oneworld. My understanding of codeshare rules would make this impossible unless those intra-Canada flights were connected with an AA itinerary, i.e. LGA-YYZ-YEG. AA -- or any other codeshare partner -- is not, I beleive, permitted to sell YYZ-YEG on its own, but only in conjunction with a flight from the home country of the carrier (i.e. the U.S.A. in the case of AA) or from an intermediate point from which it has carriage rights into Canada.

You wouldn't find YYZ-YEG-YYZ bookable as a codeshare in AA's computer without that U.S.A. linking flight. (Otherwise, they must be booked under the AC or CP codes.) I tried to do just that during the 100K promo, thinking it might be possible to pick up an intra-Canada codeshare segment with an AA or QF flight number (YEG-YVR for example). Couldn't do it unless it was part of a larger itinerary starting in the US (for AA) or Australia, New Zealand or Hawaii (for QF).