Buy Aeroplan Points with up to a 110% Bonus

Aeroplan has frequent sales on buying points with its Buy & Gift Points feature.

From now until August 12, 2026, you can receive up to a 110% bonus on purchased Aeroplan points. All members get the same published tiers of up to 100%, and Aeroplan credit cardholders earn an extra 10% on top of each tier.

If you’re in need of a top-up to your Aeroplan balance, or if you can leverage the promotion to score premium flights at a steep discount, it’s worth taking stock of what’s on offer this time around.

Buy Aeroplan Points with up to 110% Bonus

Outside of sales, Aeroplan sells points at a base price of 3.75 cents per point (CAD).

During this promotion, buying Aeroplan points with the 110% bonus brings the effective acquisition cost down to 1.79 cents per point (CAD).

Without an Aeroplan credit card, the top tier is a 100% bonus, which works out to 1.88 cents per point (CAD).

The promotion has tiered pricing, with bigger purchases unlocking higher bonus percentages. Unlike many recent sales, the tiers aren’t a mystery this time, and the same base offer applies to all members:

• Buy 5,000–25,000 Aeroplan points and get a 50% bonus
• Buy 30,000–80,000 Aeroplan points and get a 70% bonus
• Buy 90,000 or more Aeroplan points and get a 100% bonus

On top of the base tiers, primary cardholders of an Aeroplan credit card targeted for this offer receive an extra 10%, for bonuses of 60%, 80%, and 110% respectively. The card must be linked to your Aeroplan account, and both the card and your Aeroplan account must be open and in good standing at the time of purchase.

At 1.79 cents per point (CAD), buying Aeroplan points with a 110% bonus is comfortably below our current valuation of Aeroplan points at 2.0 cents per point (CAD), tying the July flash sale for the lowest cost we’ve seen from Aeroplan since January 2025. Without an Aeroplan credit card, the 100% top tier comes in at 1.88 cents per point, which is still below our valuation. The lower tiers all work out to more than 2 cents per point, so the strongest value is reserved for purchases of 90,000 points or more.

This is a strong offer by Aeroplan’s recent standards, and it makes sense if you’re short of a specific redemption and need a top-up, or if you can leverage the promotion for premium cabin redemptions where you’re confident of getting outsized value.

How many Aeroplan points can you buy?

Aeroplan allows each member to buy up to 1,000,000 points per calendar year. That’s quite a generous limit, and it’s much higher than what many other loyalty programs offer for buying points.

Usually, Aeroplan imposes a limit of 250,000 base points per transaction, but that limit has been doubled to 500,000 points during this promotion. The 1,000,000-point calendar year cap stays in place.

Which credit card should you use to buy Aeroplan points?

As Aeroplan points purchases are processed by Points.com, you won’t be able to earn category accelerators on Air Canada or travel purchases.

When buying or gifting Aeroplan points with a Canadian address, it will result in sales tax being added to the total, eroding some of the value of your purchase.

Therefore, the ideal way to make your purchase would be to use a US credit card with a US billing address, in which case GST/HST isn’t levied. You could use this opportunity to make progress towards a minimum spending requirement on a new US credit card; otherwise, use a card that offers a strong return on everyday spending.

If you must use a Canadian credit card, you’ll be acquiring Aeroplan points at a higher rate, depending on your provincial tax rate. With taxes included, the value proposition further weakens, and you may be better off earning Aeroplan points in other ways.

Who Should Buy Aeroplan Points?

There are some situations in which buying Aeroplan points can be beneficial.

Travel on Long-Haul Partner Airlines

Even with a purchase price of as low as 1.79 cents per point, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re guaranteed to get the same value for your booking.

Before buying points, it’s important to consider Aeroplan’s dynamic pricing model, where award ticket prices on Air Canada flights and with select partner airlines can be a bit unpredictable. Points costs rise and fall, more closely mirroring cash costs, so there isn’t as clear an advantage to buying points and making a points booking.

Instead, you can benefit by flying on Air Canada’s partner airlines, where award tickets are at a fixed points price based on distance and region. With partner airlines, there are certainly many more sweet spots to be had where you can stretch the value you get for your up-front cash costs.

In general, you shouldn’t speculatively buy points if you tend to travel on dynamically priced routes. There’s a lot more risk in making a speculative points purchase if you can’t guarantee the value you’ll get – in that case, you should try to earn points the slow way.

On the other hand, if you’re confident that you’ll often have opportunities to redeem points above the price you pay, you can stand to benefit from a points purchase under this promotion.

Families Who Share Points

With Aeroplan’s Family Sharing feature, you can easily purchase points on multiple accounts within a household and use them together.

That’s especially the case if you want to purchase more than the maximum of 1,000,000 Aeroplan points per account per year.

You can purchase points on up to eight Aeroplan accounts under the same Family Sharing pool, and redeem them out of your own account for your own trips. Across all linked accounts, your family could purchase up to 8,000,000 points per year.

Other Ways to Earn Aeroplan Points

Despite this being an opportunity to buy points for less than usual, there is no shortage of other easy and affordable ways to earn Aeroplan points. You should always consider if you can reach the balance you want, on the timeline you need it, in other ways.

Credit Cards by TD, CIBC, and American Express

By our count, Canada has no less than 20 credit cards that either earn Aeroplan points directly, or earn points that can be transferred to Aeroplan.

In particular, the main cards you should be looking at are any co-branded Aeroplan credit card from TD, CIBC, or American Express, or any American Express card that earns Membership Rewards, which can be transferred to Aeroplan at a 1:1 ratio.

Generally, signup bonuses are the most affordable way to “buy” points. The fastest way is via premium cards with high fees and higher bonuses. Plus, with these cards, you get all the perks of being a premium Aeroplan cardholder.

On the other hand, if you prefer to keep costs down and earn points more slowly, the TD Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card and the CIBC Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card are great choices. Both are almost always offering a first-year annual fee rebate, along with a decent-sized welcome bonus. The best cost to acquire points is no cost!

It’s worth noting that some Aeroplan credit card offers distribute the welcome bonus on a monthly basis, not all at once. Therefore, if you need the points right away, it might be better to take advantage of this Buy & Gift Points promotion, even if the cost is higher than a new credit card.

US Credit Cards

The Aeroplan® Credit Card issued by Chase is one of the best ways to earn award travel at a great price. For an annual fee of $95 (USD), you’ll get a welcome bonus worth up to 75,000 Aeroplan points.

American Express Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, and Capital One Miles can also be transferred 1:1 to Aeroplan. However, all of these programs have a much wider variety of unique transfer partners that are otherwise unavailable to Canadians.

With so many other ways to earn Aeroplan points in Canada, you might want to save your US transferable rewards for other purposes and perhaps only transfer them to Aeroplan as a last resort for a quick top-up.

Aeroplan eStore

You may also turn to the Aeroplan eStore for bonuses on online purchases at many popular retailers, ranging from technology to sportswear companies.

High bonuses can often be found around big shopping days. Keep an eye out for things like Back to School promotions, and then dates like Thanksgiving and Christmas/Boxing Day.

While this is potentially a good way to pad your balance, I wouldn’t count on it for an urgent top-up. Even if you were to take advantage of the latest promotion, the bonus points may not arrive in your account immediately.

Previous Promotions

As you decide whether this promotion is a good opportunity for you to meet your travel goals, here’s a look back at Aeroplan’s past bonuses on purchasing points:

Bonus	Cents Per Point (CAD)	Start Date	End Date
Up to 110% more purchased points (current)	1.79	July 20, 2026	August 12, 2026
Up to 110% more purchased points	1.79	July 16, 2026	July 19, 2026
Up to 90% more purchased points	1.97	May 14, 2026	May 31, 2026
Up to 30% off purchased points	2.63	March 26, 2026	May 13, 2026
Up to 90% more purchased points	1.97	March 2, 2026	March 19, 2026
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.88	January 26, 2026	February 16, 2026
Up to 30% off purchased points	2.63	December 18, 2025	January 24, 2026
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.88	November 20, 2025	December 17, 2025
Up to 90% more purchased points	1.97	October 15, 2025	October 29, 2025
Up to 85% more purchased points	2.03	August 20, 2025	September 24, 2025

Show older promotions (2023–mid-2025)

Bonus	Cents Per Point (CAD)	Start Date	End Date
Up to 95% more purchased points	1.92	July 18, 2025	August 2, 2025
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.88	July 14, 2025	July 17, 2025
Up to 30% off purchased points	2.63	June 26, 2025	July 3, 2025
Up to 90% more purchased points	1.84	May 15, 2025	June 4, 2025
Up to 30% off purchased points	2.45	March 18, 2025	May 14, 2025
Up to 80% more purchased points	1.94	February 25, 2025	March 13, 2025
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.75	January 6, 2025	January 14, 2025
Up to 80% more purchased points	1.94	November 21, 2024	December 13, 2024
Up to 30% off purchased points	2.45	October 15, 2024	November 18, 2024
Up to 85% more purchased points	1.89	September 4, 2024	October 10, 2024
Up to 125% more purchased points	1.56	July 8, 2024	July 11, 2024
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.75	June 7, 2024	June 21, 2024
Up to 85% more purchased points	1.89	April 29, 2024	May 11, 2024
Up to 80% more purchased points	1.94	March 20, 2024	April 5, 2024
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.75	January 23, 2024	January 29, 2024
Up to 30% off purchased points	2.45	December 7, 2023	December 30, 2023
Up to 100% more purchased points	1.75	November 13, 2023	November 29, 2023

Conclusion

Aeroplan’s latest promotion offers up to a 110% bonus on purchased points, reducing the cost to as low as 1.79 cents per point (CAD) for Aeroplan credit cardholders, or 1.88 cents per point for everyone else.

Since we value Aeroplan points at 2.0 cents per point, the top tier brings the cost comfortably below our estimated redemption value, which isn’t a margin we see from Aeroplan very often.

Therefore, this promotion can be a solid way to top up points for premium cabin redemptions, especially if you have a specific booking in mind.

The offer runs until August 12, 2026, so if you do plan to use it, aim for the 90,000-point threshold or above, where the cost per point falls below your likely redemption value.