Calm Air Flights Are Now Bookable Online with Aeroplan Points

Booking a flight to Canada’s North with your Aeroplan points is now a much simpler process.

The change was announced for July 22, 2026. From that date, reward reservations on Calm Air were to move onto aircanada.com, the Air Canada mobile app, and Aeroplan’s call centre.

In my searches on launch day, though, Calm Air space was not appearing in results, so I held off on covering the change until it was working. That’s now the case. Calm Air awards are showing up properly on aircanada.com, and everything described below is live and bookable today.

Before this change, you had to hunt down award space yourself and phone Calm Air Reservations to lock it in, with no way to connect onto other airlines.

What Changed on July 22

Calm Air has been an Aeroplan redemption partner for years, but the booking process has remained manual until now.

The airline handled all Aeroplan redemptions through its own reservations line. You’d look up schedules on the Calm Air website, then call in to confirm availability.

That process disappeared on July 22, 2026. Calm Air awards now live on aircanada.com and in the mobile app, right alongside Air Canada and the rest of the partner roster.

Anything booked through Calm Air Reservations before July 22 stays with Calm Air, so existing reservations don’t need any action.

One Award Ticket to Canada’s North

The more significant change is that Calm Air flights can now be combined with Aeroplan's 50+ partner airlines on a single reward booking.

Previously, Calm Air redemptions couldn’t be mixed with any other airline, not even Air Canada. Getting from Toronto to Churchill meant two separate redemptions, one to Winnipeg and another onward.

Now, that same trip can price out as one itinerary. Fly Air Canada from Toronto to Winnipeg, connect onto Calm Air up to Churchill, and it’s all a single award ticket.

It works in reverse for northern residents, too. A trip from Rankin Inlet to Europe can now sit on one booking from start to finish.

Where Calm Air Flies

Calm Air connects communities across Manitoba and the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, with hubs in Winnipeg and Rankin Inlet.

Its Manitoba network covers Thompson, The Pas, Flin Flon, and Churchill. On the Nunavut side, it serves communities such as Arviat, Baker Lake, and Coral Harbour.

The airline flies ATR turboprops on most routes, plus a Boeing 737 from Canadian North on the Winnipeg–Rankin Inlet trunk route.

Churchill, the polar bear capital of the world, has no road access, so Calm Air is one of the few ways in. It can now be booked with points online.

If your sights are set further north, Iqaluit is served by Canadian North rather than Calm Air, a redemption I’ve highlighted before in my guide to Aeroplan’s within-region charts. Our guide to Aeroplan’s domestic partners breaks down who flies where.

How Calm Air Awards Are Priced

Calm Air sits on the Air Canada and Select Partners reward chart, which moved to dynamic pricing in March 2025 alongside Canadian North and PAL Airlines.

That means award prices fluctuate with demand rather than following fixed partner rates, while availability tends to be better than a fixed chart would allow.

Cash fares to remote northern communities are steep, so even a mid-range dynamic price can translate into strong value for your points.

Here’s a live example. A 75-minute nonstop from Rankin Inlet to Naujaat, which still shows as Repulse Bay in the booking engine, priced at 15,000 points plus $39 in taxes and fees as a Standard reward in economy.

The same route books for roughly $400 to $900 in cash depending on the fare brand. In terms of conditions, the award most closely resembles the FLYflex bucket, with one free checked bag, and FLYflex sold for $854.11 on the day we checked. Against that fare, the redemption returns about 5.4 cents per point.

Realistically, though, a cash buyer would take the SOAR fare at $401.82, which was both the cheapest option that day and the most generous, with three free bags and full refundability. Subtract the $39 in taxes and fees you’d pay on the award anyway, and 15,000 points are covering $362.82 of airfare against that benchmark, a return of about 2.4 cents per point and still comfortably above our valuation of Aeroplan points at 2.0 cents.

Baggage and Fees on Award Bookings

Since nothing about award baggage is published on either airline’s website, we priced out live Standard and Latitude rewards in economy on an intra-Nunavut route to see what the booking flow discloses. Both reward types showed identical baggage allowances.

Award tickets come with one complimentary checked bag, with a second available for $50, and each bag capped at 50 pounds and 62 linear inches. That matches the allowance FLYflex buyers get, though the ticket itself is issued as an Air Canada fare rather than into one of Calm Air’s own brands.

Carry-on follows the operating airline’s rules, and this is where Calm Air differs sharply from what Aeroplan members are used to. The limit is two pieces at a combined 20 pounds, far below Air Canada’s allowance, so pack accordingly if you’re connecting off a mainline flight.

On Standard rewards, change and cancellation fees carry over from Aeroplan’s usual schedule. Changes run $75 online or $100 through the call centre, cancellations $150 online or $175 by phone, and both are waived for Super Elite members. A no-show forfeits the points entirely, so cancel before departure even if plans fall through at the last minute.

Conclusion

Aeroplan continues to build out its coverage of domestic regional carriers, from adding Air Inuit and Bearskin Airlines to the roster to bringing Calm Air fully online.

The remaining phone-only regional partners may follow the same path over time, which would make the program more useful still for travel within Canada.

For travellers with Churchill in their plans, the whole trip now fits on one award ticket.