Business Platinum Card from American Express
130,000 MR points
4 Exciting New Aeroplan Features (Family Sharing, 50% Off Awards, and More!)
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Business Platinum Card from American Express
- Earn 90,000 MR points upon spending $15,000 in the first three months
- Plus, earn 40,000 MR points upon making a purchase in months 15–17 as a cardholder
- And, earn 1.25x MR points on all purchases
- Also, receive a $200 annual travel credit
- Transfer Membership Rewards points to Aeroplan, The British Airways Club, Flying Blue, and other frequent flyer programs for premium flights
- Unlimited airport lounge access for you and one guest at Priority Pass, Plaza Premium, Centurion, and other lounges
- Credits and rebates for business expenses throughout the year with Amex Offers
- Bonus MR points for referring family and friends
- Qualify for the card as a sole proprietor
- Annual fee: $799
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Hi Ricky,
Thanks for the thorough explanation. Une question: can you convert Aeroplan points to hotel points, like Marriott or Hilton or others of the such?
Thanks!
Unfortunately, nope. You can convert Marriott or Hilton points to Aeroplan, but not the other way around.
Thank you Ricky! I’m trying to determine how many 50% vouchers I would receive now and/or in January being a Super Elite 100k and 6k SQD as of now?
Ricky,
Do you know if the Priority Awards are earned as a family or individually under the new family accounts? For example, if a family has a 25k member who earns 2 awards due to their CC spending, but the family has another member who is 100k, are the awards earned at the 25k or 100k level?
Individually. The only Elite Status perk that’s shared among a Family Sharing group is the preferred pricing on dynamic AC awards.
Also, note that you do not earn Priority Rewards on credit card spending. It’s based on Status Qualifying Dollars (SQD), which is your spending with Air Canada.
Ricky,
Thank you so much for your very detailed info. I am not sure if seat selection is no longer free for a reward ticket in the lowest fare category under new Aeroplan?
Ricky, do you know if the 50% voucher applies to the 5K stopover fee as well ?
Yes it does! It applies to the entire points cost of any given award.
Thanks ! Follow up question can a stopover be within NA on a Atlantic-NA flight example, MLE-AUH-YYZ (STOP) – LAX ? If so do you know if you would be able to adjust date of last segment post starting the trip ? Would make for a great “tag on” trip.
Update: Turns out, no, your stopover cannot be within Canada/US even on itineraries that go outside of Canada/US. So unfortunately this angle is a no-go. Bright idea though.
Yes, I see no reason why this plan wouldn’t be viable. You’d just pay the associated change fees, stopover fee of 5,000 points, etc., but if you were already in the top distance band then you may as well not let the ability to add a stopover go to waste.
I’m glad we’re already thinking of creative sweet spots!
Must’ve taken a lot of dedication to write all these articles in a single day. Really appreciate the work you are putting into this. It’ll be interesting to see how SQDs and Priority Rewards will play a factor in “bonus hunting” since Priority Rewards encourages card holders to continue using the card after the MSR. I think it’ll depend on how the SUB will be for the Aeroplan cards.
Man, you won’t believe how many Adderalls I’ve popped to write 17,000+ words in one morning.
Just kidding, Air Canada gave a media briefing a few weeks back so we could cover this deluge of information properly. 🙂
“The second option allows you to pay for the whole thing using your Aeroplan points and spend $0 out-of-pocket. Now, technically the current Aeroplan already offers this feature, but the value in redeeming points this way (3 cents per mile, or 3cpp) is so poor that it’s never recommended to do so.”
3cpp isn’t bad value.
But I don’t think that’s accurate.
DP:
I just looked up a flight. $104.50 in taxes and fee, with the option to pay 14,928 miles to cover it.
That represents approx 0.7cpp!
Yes sorry, I’ve gotten my numbers mixed up here, as I was thinking about the poor default value in the opposite direction (trading cash for points).
Lots of content to cover. Some slip-ups. My apologies. That’s why I appreciate all of you 🙂
So if I’m understanding the redemption model correctly, there’s probably some interesting options to book Flex Economy flights using the priority rewards and then immediately use eUpgrade credits to bump the flight to business. That might make them a little more useful for the sub-Super Elite members.