Airmiles or Aeroplan?

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Originally Posted by Jassanova

Aeroplan/Air Canada charge a fuel surcharge on international flights.. so your return flight to asia will cost you $700 in surcharges. But if you book the flight on other Star Alliance airlines (ie. United Airlines or whatever)... the surcharges are significantly lower. You can do this by calling up the Aeroplan Centre or sometimes can even find different airlines online when booking on the Aeroplan website.

You can check out flyertalk.com 's forums for more info on it.

Wow thats kind of ridculous, considering you can get flights to HK for like ~$1K.

I only collect aeroplan cause I travel for work and fly AC.

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Originally Posted by Jassanova

Aeroplan/Air Canada charge a fuel surcharge on international flights.. so your return flight to asia will cost you $700 in surcharges. But if you book the flight on other Star Alliance airlines (ie. United Airlines or whatever)... the surcharges are significantly lower. You can do this by calling up the Aeroplan Centre or sometimes can even find different airlines online when booking on the Aeroplan website.

You can check out flyertalk.com 's forums for more info on it.

this is slightly false information, i have taken two flights to tokyo in the past 7 months on my aeroplan points, with free bumps to business class b/c im elite status. i paid no more than 370$ in surcharges and taxes per flight.

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Originally Posted by ncrx

this is slightly false information, i have taken two flights to tokyo in the past 7 months on my aeroplan points, with free bumps to business class b/c im elite status. i paid no more than 370$ in surcharges and taxes per flight.

man im always like 3-5 flights short of Elite Status each year