Canadian Transport Agency states airlines can provide vouchers instead of refunds

The Canadian Transport Agency (CTA) issued a statement yesterday in regards to vouchers that are being issued by airlines instead of refunds. Essentially they are allowing airlines to go ahead with the voucher route and not issue refunds to customers for the time being. Here is an excerpt from the statement: The legislation, regulations, and […]

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Aeroplan soft launches using miles to bid for upgrades and a full time buy/gift miles option

Air Canada’s Aeroplan soft-launched two new features today for program members. The first is using Aeroplan Miles to bid for upgrades on flights and the second is the full time availability to buying or gifting Aeroplan miles. Here are the details as provided to us by Air Canada: Use Aeroplan Miles to submit offers for […]

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Aeroplan confirms flight reward cancel with no fee policy and pauses expiration of miles + Air Canada Altitude updates

Aeroplan has provided further updates on their program tonight in regards to the COVID-19 Pandemic.: Cancel any Flight Reward free of charge, until March 31 As we had already announced back on March 12 they are providing free cancellations of award tickets with the full amount of miles being refunded back to your account and […]

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Air Canada to suspend most U.S. and International flights and reduce flights within Canada

Air Canada announced this evening that they are going to gradually suspend most of their U.S. and International flights by March 31 and offer a reduced domestic schedule for April. They will continue to fly a small amount of select cities outside of  Canada from April 1st to 30th and potentially beyond that: “Air Canada intends to […]

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March 11 Update: Summary of all major Canadian airline flight change waivers – Air Canada & WestJet extend offers to existing bookings

With Italy being effectively shut down, Air Canada has cancelled all their flights to/from Italy until April 30. The last flight from Rome to Montreal is operating today. WestJet has made no mention yet of what is planned for their new Calgary to Rome route that is slated to launch on May 2. There also […]

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