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Is the Aeroplan Mini-RTW Right for Everyone?
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Hey Ricky,
For Aeroplan tickets, what are we as customers entitled to if there was a delay that causes us to miss the next leg of our flight? What about scenarios when an Aeroplan leg causes us to miss a segment of a flight that we purchased separately from Aeroplan?
Example:
YYZ – JFK (Aeroplan)
JFK – AMS (Aeroplan
AMS – CDG (British Airlines fare)
AMS – IST (Aeroplan
Is there any recourse in this case?
There’s no obligation on the airline to compensate you if you were on separate bookings, although it’s still worth asking. This is more the realm of travel insurance for getting your non-refundable costs recouped in the event of a flight delay.
Booked 2 pax on Eva J 1 day before departure and ANA F 2 weeks before depature. I’ve never booked far in advance, always last minute, and have been fortunate to find availability on many of the worlds best products.
I absolutely love MINI-RTW. It’s always a challenge to book this for a large family, but I’m always up for the challenge. I tend to not use my points for anything within NA, unless it’s a last minute decision or that buying the ticket is way too costly. The last one I did was YYZ-ORD-TPE-ICN-SYD-AKL-SFO-YYZ. Curious as to see what the best Mini-RTW in first class would look like.
I’ll write a blog post about optimal Aeroplan First Class awards soon.
I recently done my 1st M-RTW (yyz-ord-waw-ist-cgk-sin-bkk,color:magenta,bkk-hyd-vtz-del-mxp-zrh-lis-yyz) solo, I faced the same challenge of packing for different weathers (Dec-Jan) with in a backpack (yes, i only carried back with 2 pairs and laptop and toiletry) and wore two layers on me. This really gave me tough time during walking tours and public transport during rush hour.
Next challenge was the accommadation as most of the lounges in Europe are closed by 10pm and after hectic day trip during the layover, you have to either sleep over in chairs or take airport hotel for hefty price (unfortunately i dont have have many points for free nights).
I cursed myself when i slept on the floor in Milan and ended up booking airport hotel (sheraton) in Zurich for $200 for few hours as most of my departing flights are early in the morning to next destination.
In the end, this did not stopped my spirit, but will certainly plan for my 2nd one accordingly and this time i am planning with family of 3 which might be troublesome to find the award flights (hope i can get 3 award seats as my trip dates in dec-2019).
PS: if i would have read your island hopping bit earlier, i could have joined you as well..its once in a life time trips.. Ping me if you ever need wingmate/travelbuddy for solo trips.
Sounds like a hectic but very rewarding one! Hopefully your family will feel the same when the time comes 🙂
Mini-RTW and Significant Others, you nailed it. I went through a lot of up and down to get my other half to get on board even so she does not like the part when she has to call in to cancel the credit cards.
As for the Mini-RTW, I have done a couple including a separate mistake fare US $300 on United Island hopper US-154 going west bound. EWR-HNL-MAJ-KWA-KSA-PNI-TKK-GUM-MNL-PEK-ORD. On top of that, I paid extra couple of hundred dollars for the Economy Plus. I got the seat 7A & 7B and 7C was reserved for the Air Craft Mechanic who accompany us from MAJ-TKK. Never got off any of the Island but all in all it was a great trip and one less off my bucket list.
I have a Mini-RTW coming up in May, the challenges I had booking was not to arrive late in at night for the under 24-hour layout in order to avoid booking hotel. And also, thanks to you for avoiding the hefty fuel surcharges came handy.
Thank you for sharing all the Miles and Points and Hotel tricks so much so that I am planning 2 more of the Crazy Aeroplan Trips for 2020 before Air Canada takes over and that will the end of Mini-RTW
Love you site, looking forward to your next Toronto Miles & Points Meetup
I’ve looked into the possibility of routing via Island Hopper on those UA mistake fares before – amazing to hear that someone has actually done it! You definitely gotta go back and check out the islands though 😉
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By the way, there is no blog anywhere that is going to give readers in Canada better information than the “ Prince of Travel “
I have to admit that I tease Ricky the odd time, but Man O Man, I get more from this blog than anywhere else.
Keep it up , Prince of Travel “
By the way, there is no blog anywhere that is going to give readers in Canada better information than the “ Prince of Travel “
I have to admit that I tease Ricky the odd time, but Man O Man, I get more from this blog than anywhere else.
Keep it up , Prince of Travel “
You’re too kind John. Thanks for reading and following as always.
Many people complain about Aeoplan and how it is hard to book rewards.
However, at this time , Aeroplan is still the go to program to book an around the world trip.
If plan members follow the rules and book fairly far out and have a little flexibility then anyone can get a pretty satisfying redemption.
I would recommend everyone to book this type of trip as soon as possible.
I’m oh so close to having enough points for my first mRTW w/ my partner and I’m going to start looking at dates for next spring/summer. However, instead of doing something as you outlined that can be very exhausting, we’ll be keeping it localized to jumping around different places in Europe. That way we’ll mostly stay in the same time zone. I know that doesn’t maximize the mRTW, but I think it’ll be the best way to utilize these points before changes happen to AP.
Yes, that’s one of the ways to reduce the exhaustion effects: by staying in the same time zone. I like doing three stops in South America for the same reason.
Your recent RTW was crazy, but only something I can dream of now. I have one coming up this summer with my family of 4 (business), talking me to SFO (3 hours of Polaris lounge), HKG, TPE (20 hours), SIN (8hours), MLE, IST (12 hours), and CDG. Paying a hefty fine to come home directly from CDG, but worth it I guess to cut down on the transfers. Continue to feed our dreams!