Once you get in the habit of earning and redeeming regularly, points expiring due to inactivity is something that barely ever crosses your mind. However, the possibility of losing points to expiry tends to be one of the most pressing concerns amongst beginners who may not touch their accounts quite as much.
Recently, Aeroplan has announced another extension to its pause on points expiration. Let’s take a look at the details.
Aeroplan’s No-Expiry Policy Extended Through November 2025
In an effort to keep members engaged, many loyalty programs put a pause on their regular expiration policies as travellers changed their earning and redeeming habits during the pandemic.
Aeroplan was no exception to this, and for the past four years, points that would have otherwise expired have remained valid indefinitely.
This means that its regular policy, which requires you to do some sort of earning or redeeming activity within a rolling 18-month period, has been put on hold. Account holders didn’t have to do any sort of earning or redeeming to keep their points active.
Aeroplan has now announced that this non-expiry policy will be once again extended, this time through November 30, 2025. Before that date, any Aeroplan points which should have expired will not expire.
As of November 30, 2025, the regular expiration policy resumes.
The policy is quite simple: if there has not been any eligible earning or redeeming activity in an account for 18 months, your points will expire.
To keep track of your account’s expiration date, simply log-in to your Aeroplan account, click on “My Aeroplan”, and then head over to the “Activity” tab. Your account’s expiration date, if any, will be listed on this page.
How to Prevent Aeroplan Points from Expiring
Fortunately, keeping your Aeroplan account active with earning or redeeming activity is quite easy.
There are a host of ways to prevent your account from expiring through earning, including the following:
- Taking a paid flight with Air Canada or a Star Alliance airline and crediting the points to your Aeroplan number
- Booking a hotel or car rental through Aeroplan’s portal
- Buying Aeroplan points
- Shopping online through the Aeroplan eStore
- Showing your Aeroplan card in-store at participating partners, such as the LCBO
- Linking your Uber and Aeroplan accounts, and then completing a ride
- Linking your Starbucks and Aeroplan accounts, and then buying coffee
- Transferring points from another program, such as American Express Membership Rewards, to Aeroplan
You can also get qualifying Aeroplan activity through a number of redemption options, including:
- Making a flight booking using your Aeroplan points
- Transferring your points to another Aeroplan member (at a cost)
- Donating your points to a charity through Aeroplan
- Redeeming your points for a car rental, hotel, or merchandise
- Buying Wi-Fi on board a flight with Air Canada using your Aeroplan points
- Using your points to bid for an upgrade
Furthermore, if you belong to a Family Sharing group and someone in the group makes a redemption, it counts as a qualifying activity for all members in the group. As long as someone in your Family Sharing group makes a booking every 18 months, everybody’s accounts will remain active.
If you have Aeroplan Elite Status, or if you are less than 18 years old, your Aeroplan points will not expire under any circumstances.
Perhaps the easiest way to keep your Aeroplan points active is to simply hold any of the Aeroplan co-branded credit cards. As long as you hold one of these credit cards, your points won’t expire.
Note that you must be the primary cardholder to be exempted from points expiration. Any supplementary cardholders will not benefit from this policy in their individual accounts.
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Conclusion
Aeroplan has announced the extension of its non-expiry policy through November 30, 2025. As of that date, the regular expiration policy resumes, in which points will expire if there has been no activity on the account for a rolling 18-month period.
The extension comes as good news to Aeroplan members with fairly inactive accounts; however, it’s quite easy to prevent your points from expiring in the first place through one of the many simple ways to generate activity on your account – or better yet, by regularly earning and redeeming Aeroplan points for travel.