Hello,
With the upcoming devaluation of the Velocity Frequent Flyer program, I was considering whether it's worthwhile, or possible, to credit future VA flights to AC's Aeroplan program? Could anyone offer any assistance/tips on this? It looks like there are multiple levels of lifetime status too, which gives me something to aim for. Having *A lifetime status of Gold would be something great to obtain.
Taking a look at the Aeroplan website, if flying domestically on VA (let's say SYD-MEL for arguement's sake), they class that as 8,000 points. Using their multipliers, it looks like this will earn 4,000 points for a Choice flight and 12,000 points for a Business flight. It looks like the same number of status credits (SQM) are earnt. Therefore, to reach their 50K level (for *A lounge access), it would take just over 4 business flights to reach - is that right; it seems a bit low?
Is there also a spend component and a minimum number of AC flights/segments?
Also, if you take connecting flights, let's say HBA-MEL-SYD, do you get twice as many status credits and points (the Aeroplan website lists, HBA-MEL, MEL-SYD, and HBA-SYD all as 8k points)?
Any confirmation, from those with experience with this, would be great.
Regards.
With the upcoming devaluation of the Velocity Frequent Flyer program, I was considering whether it's worthwhile, or possible, to credit future VA flights to AC's Aeroplan program? Could anyone offer any assistance/tips on this? It looks like there are multiple levels of lifetime status too, which gives me something to aim for. Having *A lifetime status of Gold would be something great to obtain.
Taking a look at the Aeroplan website, if flying domestically on VA (let's say SYD-MEL for arguement's sake), they class that as 8,000 points. Using their multipliers, it looks like this will earn 4,000 points for a Choice flight and 12,000 points for a Business flight. It looks like the same number of status credits (SQM) are earnt. Therefore, to reach their 50K level (for *A lounge access), it would take just over 4 business flights to reach - is that right; it seems a bit low?
Is there also a spend component and a minimum number of AC flights/segments?
Also, if you take connecting flights, let's say HBA-MEL-SYD, do you get twice as many status credits and points (the Aeroplan website lists, HBA-MEL, MEL-SYD, and HBA-SYD all as 8k points)?
Any confirmation, from those with experience with this, would be great.
Regards.