Air Canada Aeroplan is continuous so as to add further airline companions past the scope of Star Alliance carriers, and that’s factor for the members in relation to each accumulating and redeeming miles, which now additionally consists of Emirates.
Aeroplan members at the moment are in a position to e-book award flights on Emirates in all courses of service, together with their famed First Class Suites on the A380 – at a really steep charge!
Emirates has partnered with an entire vary of various frequent flyer applications over time the place it was doable to earn and redeem miles, together with (a very long time in the past) Mileage Plus, Alaska Mileage Plan now Aeroplan, and naturally, the codeshare partnership they’ve with Qantas.
Since Aeroplan loaded award availability, it bought me curious how a lot awards would value when utilizing Aeroplan miles to e-book Emirates flights.
I didn’t count on a discount however the premium cabin costs are fairly steep, particularly in First Class.
Right here an instance for Hong Kong-Dubai:
And an equally outrageous value for Hong Kong-Bangkok:
The enterprise class possibility for 30,000 miles isn’t all that dangerous however after all you should buy this ticket as a fifth freedom route for moderately little cash.
Compared to redemptions with Emirates Skywards instantly, that is fairly fascinating as a result of the First Class redemption is obtainable for 20,000 miles much less whereas Enterprise Class is 9,000 miles extra:
Particularly fascinating is that with Emirates Skywards, First Class is simply 6,000 miles extra in comparison with Enterprise, so you may simply as properly use First if availability is there.
That is the Aeroplan based mostly Emirates Award Chart:
The unfold is fairly huge right here, and the explanation for the costly HKG-BKK charges is that it falls underneath class 1 (as much as 2,000 miles), however the route is de facto simply half the gap.
Aeroplan’s charges in Canadian {Dollars} are higher than Skywards, although.
The underside line right here is that Aeroplan within the very least, gained a further airline associate (now near 50 whole), which is nice for availability throughout the board.
Conclusion
I’m stunned that Emirates has made First Class awards accessible on Aeroplan, as that’s a rarity lately so far as companions are involved. It’s just about unimaginable to search out this on another Emirates associate applications (reminiscent of Japan Airways Mileage Financial institution the place F Awards disappeared within the Fall of 2021).
On the similar time the Aeroplan portfolio turned extra helpful as Emirates is a moderately sensible parter airline to be added. These members with giant stacks of miles can definitely discover respectable redemptions there and if one is de facto searching for First Class then discovering availability inside Star Alliance is more and more tough. Proper now out of all Star Alliance Airways, solely ANA, Lufthansa and SWISS and Thai function First Class anymore. SWISS can solely be booked with Miles&Extra (Senator/HON) miles and THAI has very restricted routes as they sadly dropped their A380s. So Emirates as an addition does symbolize actual worth right here regardless of the upper costs.
Are you going to e-book Emirates flights along with your Aeroplan miles?