Air Canada Offers 4X Bonus Aeroplan Points on Flights to Select Destinations

Air Canada is running another bonus points promotion on its own flights, this time offering 4X bonus Aeroplan points on economy fares to a select list of destinations.

Book an eligible fare between September 8 and September 15, 2026, for travel between September 15, 2026 and July 31, 2027, and you'll earn four bonus points for every dollar of base fare on top of the usual one.

This is the third flight bonus Air Canada has run this year, and it comes with the longest travel window of the three. The trade-off is the destination list, which is narrower than the network-wide offers that came before it, so check your route before you count on the points.

The Offer at a Glance

The promotion applies automatically to new bookings made with Air Canada, with no registration or promo code required.

• Bonus: 4X bonus Aeroplan points on the base fare and carrier surcharges of eligible flights
• Booking window: September 8, 2026 at 10am ET to September 15, 2026 at 11:59pm PT
• Travel window: September 15, 2026 to July 31, 2027
• Eligible fares: Economy Standard, Flex, Comfort, and Latitude
• Eligible flights: operated by Air Canada, Air Canada Express, and Air Canada Rouge to the destinations listed below
• Posting: bonus points arrive up to eight weeks after you fly

Economy Basic fares are excluded, and so are premium economy and business class. Air Canada’s offer page lists the cabin as economy only, and the terms name just the four economy fare brands, so a Business Class Standard ticket earns its regular points and nothing more.

Codeshare, partner, and interline flights don't count, and neither do group, bulk, or tour fares. Award bookings and Points + Cash reservations are out as well, since the bonus is calculated on the cash you spend.

Which Routes Qualify

Air Canada's terms open with a broad description covering flights within Canada and to seven world regions, but the destination table that follows is the one that governs. Check your route against it.

Region	Eligible Destinations
Canada	Montreal (YUL) to or from Vancouver (YVR), Calgary (YYC), Edmonton (YEG), Halifax (YHZ), and St. John's (YYT)
United States	San Francisco (SFO), Los Angeles (LAX), Boston (BOS), Tampa (TPA), Fort Myers (RSW)
Mexico and the Caribbean	Mazatlán (MZT), Monterrey (MTY), Tulum (TQO), Puerto Escondido (PXM), Montego Bay (MBJ)
South America	Quito (UIO), Cartagena (CTG), Lima (LIM), Rio de Janeiro (GIG), Santiago (SCL)
Europe	Any Air Canada destination in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece
Asia-Pacific	Any Air Canada destination in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Australia

Two things stand out. Within Canada, only the five Montreal (YUL) pairs qualify, so a Toronto (YYZ) to Vancouver (YVR) ticket earns nothing extra. Internationally, the terms cover any flight between Canada and the listed destinations, so Toronto to Rome (FCO) or Vancouver to Tokyo (HND / NRT) both count no matter which Canadian city you start in.

Connections are fine as long as the whole one-way trip runs between eligible points. Air Canada's own example is a Montreal itinerary that connects in Toronto on the way to an eligible destination, which counts as a single one-way trip for the bonus.

How the Points Math Works

Since January 2026, Aeroplan has awarded 1 point per $1 spent on Air Canada flights, calculated on the base fare and carrier surcharges but not on taxes and third-party fees. That rate is the same across every fare brand, from Basic to Latitude.

This promotion adds four bonus points per dollar on top, so a member without status earns 5 points per $1 on an eligible fare. Air Canada's worked example uses a ticket with $1,000 in base fare and surcharges, which earns 1,000 base points and 4,000 bonus points for 5,000 in total.

If you hold Aeroplan Elite Status, your multiplier applies to the base points as usual, and the bonus sits on top rather than compounding.

Status	Base Points per $1	With This Promotion
No status	1	5
Aeroplan 25K	2	6
Aeroplan 35K	3	7
Aeroplan 50K	4	8
Aeroplan 75K	5	9
Super Elite	6	10

At our valuation of 2.0 cents per Aeroplan point, the bonus alone hands back about 8 cents for every dollar of base fare. A real booking makes it concrete. A Montreal (YUL) to Rome (FCO) round trip in Economy Standard for March 2027 priced at $1,177.31, of which $248 was base fare and $785 was carrier surcharges. Those two lines add up to $1,033 in air transportation charges, and that's the number the bonus is calculated on.

For a member with Aeroplan 25K status, the tier you can reach on credit card spending alone, the trip earns 1,033 base points, another 1,033 from the 2x status multiplier, and 4,132 bonus points from this promotion, for 6,198 points in total, worth roughly $124 at our valuation. Without status, drop the middle number and you land at 5,165 points. The $144.31 in taxes and fees earns nothing either way. Air Canada shows the promotional bonus at the fare selection step, so you can see it before you pay. On the outbound leg of this trip, the Standard fare displayed 509 base points and a 2,036-point bonus, while Basic showed 407 base points and no bonus at all.

Points from an Aeroplan credit card post separately and keep earning on top of all of this, since the bonus only touches what the flight itself awards.

Air Canada Vacations Packages Earn Too

The flight portion of a new Air Canada Vacations package booked in the same window also qualifies, with a guaranteed minimum of 250 bonus points and up to 4X on top of the flight's base earning.

Package flights don't earn on dollars spent the way a regular ticket does. They earn a fixed number of points based on the fare and destination, and the bonus multiplies that figure. Air Canada's example is a Mexico package in economy that earns 500 base points, which the promotion lifts to 2,500.

Stacking with the Seat Sale

Air Canada launched this bonus alongside a worldwide seat sale on the same page, with up to 20% off undiscounted base fares for the same booking and travel windows. The airline pitches the two together, so a discounted fare booked this week should also earn the bonus.

The fine print differs in a few places. The seat sale covers premium economy and business class Standard fares and carries a blackout from December 18, 2026 to January 4, 2027, while the bonus points offer has no blackout dates but sticks to economy. The sale also extends to select codeshare flights on partners like United Airlines and Lufthansa, but the bonus points don't, so a codeshare booking gets the discount and misses the points.

Both sets of terms include the usual line about not combining with other offers. I'd read that as boilerplate given how Air Canada is marketing them, but it's a reason to keep your booking confirmation handy if the bonus doesn't post.

Is It Worth Booking up from Basic?

The obvious question is whether the bonus justifies skipping Economy Basic, since that's the one economy fare Air Canada has carved out.

On the Montreal to Rome example, it doesn't, at least not on points alone. Basic priced at $488 each way and Standard at $590, a gap of about $200 on the round trip. For a 25K member, Standard earns roughly 4,500 more points than Basic once the promotional bonus, the status multiplier, and the higher base earning are counted, worth about $91 at our valuation. The bonus covers a bit under half of the step up.

What closes the rest of the gap is everything else Standard includes. It comes with a checked bag each way, which Basic charges for, and it earns Status Qualifying Credits, 1,018 per direction on this fare, where Basic earns none. If you'd check a bag anyway or you're working toward Aeroplan Elite Status, the bonus tips a decision you were already leaning toward. If you travel light and don't care about status, Basic is still the cheaper ticket even after the points.

Our guide to Air Canada's fare brands walks through what each one includes, and those differences matter more than the points once your plans start moving.

Compared with Air Canada's earlier offers this year, this one is a middle ground. A network-wide 4X offer closed on July 3 with travel through February 2027, and a 5X round from August 26 to September 3 covered November travel only. This edition trades a lower multiplier than the 5X and a shorter destination list for ten and a half months of travel dates, which suits anyone locking in a spring or summer 2027 trip now.

Conditions to Keep in Mind

A few details are worth confirming before you book.

• New bookings only: the booking reference has to be created during the offer window, so changing an existing reservation into the travel period earns nothing
• Aeroplan number on the booking: add it before you fly, and you have up to 11 months after the flight to claim points that didn't post
• Cash fares only: award tickets and Points + Cash bookings are excluded
• Cancellations forfeit the bonus: refunded or cancelled bookings earn nothing, and the points post up to eight weeks after travel
• Elite multiplier applies separately: the bonus multiplies base points only and doesn't stack on top of your status multiplier

The full terms are on Air Canada's special offers page, and the regular earning rates are on the Aeroplan earning page.

Conclusion

If you already have a trip to one of the listed destinations in mind for the next ten months, booking it this week is an easy win. Four extra points per dollar on a fare you were going to buy anyway is about as simple as bonus points get.

I wouldn't book a trip I didn't need for it, and I wouldn't step up from Basic just to collect it. On the Montreal to Rome fares above, the bonus covered less than half of the difference, and it was the checked bag and the status credits that made Standard worth considering. The points are a sweetener on a fare you were going to buy, not a reason to buy a more expensive one.

Bookings close at 11:59pm PT on September 15, 2026. Given that this is the third round since June, I'd expect another before the end of the year, though probably not with a travel window this long.