How to book Air Canada Aeroplan stopover awards

(00:00) - With Air Canada Aeroplan, you can pay 5K points per passenger, per direction to add add a stopover to each direction of your trip. In this video, we'll look at how to book an Air Canada Aeroplan stopover award, and will review what the rules are.

(00:39) - What are the stopover rules for Air Canada Aeroplan?

(01:41) - How to find availability: Check the "Book with Aeroplan points" box and select "Multi-city / Stopover"

(02:36) - Add your stopover information with the "Add stopover for flight 1" link (instead of adding the details into the "flight 2" fields)

(03:19) - Click "Remove flight" to remove that "Flight 2" if you're just booking a one-way flight with a stopover

(04:41) - Sort by Business class pricing (sorting low to high) to make sure you'll see any Saver Awards that exist

(05:53) - When the notice "Mixed Cabin" is in red, it means less than half the itinerary will be in the class you're looking at. (When the "Mixed Cabin" notice is in black, more than half the itinerary is in the class you're looking at.)

(11:40) - If you want something a little more complex with lots of long layovers mixed in for example, use the "One Way" search instead of the stopover tool, (because the stopover tool only works for itineraries up to 4 segments, and more realistically, can only function well with about 3 segments.) With this option, you'll need to find the flights yourself, then call to make the booking. Write down the flight numbers and departure and arrival times so that you can give all of these details to the agent.

(23:15) - Use GCmap.com to help determine if your distances fit within the rule against exceeding double the distance of the direct route.

(26:30) - Make sure you're not accidentally including any legs in a higher class than you'd like to pay for, because that will adopt that price tier for your whole itinerary. (Similarly, if you include a leg with Emirates, you'll adopt the unique award chart used for Emirates awards, which may likely be more expensive.)

(28:29) - Open jaws aren't allowed at your stopover point

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