Quirks of Aeroplan One Way vs Multicity

While dreaming of lazing on the sunny beaches of Goa, I was playing around on Aeroplan to make speculative bookings for later this year to take advantage of the free changes being offered by Aeroplan for booking made upto February 28, 2021 and noticed something to the contrary that we always feared since the relaunch of the revamped Aeroplan program.

Generally speaking, while the online booking engine on Aeroplan using “multi-city” search engine supports two fields of airports, it however prices out as two separate one-way’s and you get charged for two separate one-way awards. However, what I noticed today is that it sometimes charges different or lower Aeroplan Points but the same taxes and fees when booking the same routing when booked as multi-city vs one-way.

I was looking for GOI-YYZ with GOI-DEL on Vistara (UK) and DEL-YYZ on Air Canada(AC).
If I do a search for “One-Way” for GOI-YYZ

I am presented with an option for 100,000 Aeroplan Points and taxes/fees of $59.28

Now, if I do a multi-city search;

I am presented with the same flights, albiet with a lower amount of Aeroplan points i.e. 93,700 Aeroplan Points – less by 6,300 Aeroplan points while the same amount of taxes.

Now, if you take it a step further and try to book a “multi-city” with a stop-over of over 24hours, for e.g., GOI-DEL and then DEL-YYZ after 4 days;

It appears it comes out to the same amount of the lower Aeroplan points as priced under multi-city and the same amount in taxes and fees and, best of all – without the charge of the extra 5,000 Aeroplan points for the stopover.

So, its worth trying out different combinations and see what works best as Aeroplan still irons out the kinks.

I will post as I discover other nuances with Aeroplan.

Written by Dominic Fernandes aka CanadaPointsGuy.

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