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Rouge, Jazz and mainline Air Canada are all unified under the AC code and will credit as AC. That said, if this is a domestic flight and I expect being Jazz it is, I have found very few domestic flights are eligible for points or status credit earn, even if part of a longer international...

This. In early 2020 (pre-covid), they renewed my status despite not meeting the requirements. Wondering if they intend to do something similar this year. It seems most people who earned enough to get Plat or close to Plat have been ineligible for the recent point purchase offer so it may be a...

19/11/23 | VA875 | MEL to SYD Boarded on time with a warm welcome from Christy and CM Kim. PDB was offered so already an improvement over the SYD-MEL flight! Meal orders were taken on the ground in the traditional order. I thought taking orders on the ground was a great idea, at the time...

Hotel: InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto When: November 2023 Status: Diamond Ambassador Rate: $317/night (Visa partner rate) Booked: 1 King Classic Received: Initially upgraded to 1 King Classic Atrium View shortly after booking, upgraded again the day before arrival to 1 King Premium Club...

16/11/23 | VA878 | SYD to MEL I was a bit apprehensive about this flight after reading Luke B's post from the same flight the previous night and it turned out I had good reason to be. Probably the worst experience I have had to date on a VA J flight, and that is including the snack box period...

The link doesn't seem to work for me. I got about halfway to qualifying on points so might be tempted by a purchase offer. Update - Got in but says I'm ineligible. Unlucky!

Imagine if you had chosen to Fly Ahead and missed this 😄

May as well share my experiences at each of the lounges visited on the trip, in chronological order! YYC Calgary - receptionist initially mistook my VA SG card for an Air New Zealand card, right corner of the world I suppose 😄 But she took another look, recognised the VA membership and we were...

Just to close the circle on this one and as a data point for future visitors, we were let in. So appears to be treated like any other Maple Leaf Lounge in terms of eligibility. It was a pretty nice lounge as well!

Hotel: Holiday Inn Express Newcastle (Australia) When: October 2023 Status: Diamond Ambassador Rate: $162/night (Visa partner rate) Booked: 1 Queen Bed Standard Received: 1 Queen Bed Standard Returning to this hotel after a previous stay last November. Some things have stayed the same, others...

Hotel: voco Kirkton Park Hunter Valley When: October 2023 Status: Diamond Ambassador Rate: CAD $308.40/night (Visa partner rate) Booked: 1 King Standard Received: 1 King Grand with Valley View (two-category update, highest non-suite category available) Back in Australia and a quick two-night...

Hotel: InterContinental Montreal When: September 2023 Status: Diamond Ambassador Rate: CAD $487.90/night (Club IC Rate) Booked: 1 King Premium Montreal View Corner Received: 1 Bedroom Suite Montreal View (room types are a bit confusing but I believe it's a one-category upgrade) Nothing...

Hotel: InterContinental Toronto Centre When: September 2023 Status: Diamond Ambassador Rate: 1 reward night for 90,000pts, 1 free night with Ambassador Certificate and the remaining two nights averaged out at CAD $640/night Booked: 2 Double Classic Received: 2 Queen Premium High Floor (a...

Looked at making a booking before they opened and contrary to every other IHG property in the country they were quoting rates on the website exclusive of GST. Thought this was poor form and booked the IC instead so as to avoid supporting bad behaviour! I think they have since fixed it.

Has anyone had any experience accessing the Air Canada Café as a SG/WP at Pearson or Billy Bishop, as opposed to the Maple Leaf Lounge? Visiting Billy Bishop in mid-September and wondering if I should expect any access issues. From Air Canada's side they appear to treat them the same as a Maple...

SG with nine flights over the past year and received the 30 SCs offer. A bit disappointed tbh!

Hotel: InterContinental Sydney When: July 2023 Status: Diamond Ambassador Rate: AUD $445/night (Advanced Purchase rate for a Saturday night) Booked: 2 Double Classic Received: 2 Double Classic High Floor (a one-category upgrade) As others have noted in the past, this is very much a hotel that...

Can't say I'm finding a whole lot of value for a November status run. Might just book a SYD-MEL or SYD-BNE to keep credits ticking up.

Like I said above, only works if there is a meaningful price gap between the full service and "glorified hybrid". Business model works well, so long as that remains the case. The moment the full service carriers start muscling in at a similar or better price, as we're seeing with ANA on the...

These loads and on-time stats are woeful. Whilst I imagine it might improve a little bit once the MAXs are available, surely it is performing worse than anyone at the airline anticipated? Without urgently finding some widebodies or maybe doing some sort of Qantas / Finnair style wet lease I'm...