Earn Up To 25,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles With Partners

Participating transfer partners include:

• ClubRewards
• SPG Starwood Preferred Guest
• Marriott Rewards
• Hilton HHonors
• Club Carlson
• Best Western Rewards
• Wyndham Rewards
• Accor AClub
• Choice Privileges
• Coast Rewards
• Golden Circle Award (Shangri-La Hotels)
• Hertz
• Points.com (note that only exchanges are eligible for the bonus but not points trades with other members)

Transfer Scenarios

Although these bonuses do not seem too compelling for the most part, there are two potentially decent transfer scenarios you might want to consider.

The first is using your Starwood Preferred Guest points. Normally if you transferred 20,000 SPG points to Aeroplan, you would end up with 25,000 Aeroplan miles (including the 5,000 miles SPG will give you for the transfer bonus). With this promo, you’d earn an additional 4,000 bonus miles for a total of 29,000 miles. That ends up being a 45% bonus. You can probably still get more value out of Starpoints instead of converting them to Aeroplan miles, especially because of the sometimes hefty fuel surcharges and taxes Aeroplan charges on award tickets (hundreds of dollars in many cases). However, if you were thinking of converting some SPG points to Aeroplan anyway, this could be a good option to double dip on your bonus points.

Marriott’s Air + Hotel packages are another option to consider. With them, you bundle your Marriott points and a miles conversion into one big transaction that equates your Marriott points to 1 mile each. As you can see in the table above, which includes Aeroplan as an airline partner, conversions start at 200,000 Marriott points. For that, you get 7 nights in a Category 1-5 hotel and 50,000 miles. Depending how many points you bundle, you can bank as many as 120,000 miles. So if you had enough Marriott points for one of these, let’s say converting 200,000 points into a 5-night stay at a Category 1-5 hotel + 50,000 miles, you’d actually get 60,000 miles instead, a nice 20% bonus. If you had the 250,000 necessary for a Category 1-5 bundle, you’d end up with 100,000 Aeroplan miles plus the full 25,000-mile bonus for 25% more miles than you would ordinarily earn.

So while there are options out there, just keep in mind that Aeroplan devalued its award chart last January, with redemption levels increasing by about 20% (up to 40,000 miles in some cases!) on flights from Canada and the continental US to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Australia/New Zealand/South Pacific. If you decide you want to transfer to Aeroplan despite the devaluation, below are all the full terms and conditions of the latest promotion, or click here.