Business Platinum Card from American Express
130,000 MR points
Booked: Around the World in 16 Days
Poland & China 2017
- Booked: Around the World in 16 Days
- Review: Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge Toronto (International)
- Review: Brussels Airlines Business Class Toronto to Brussels
- Review: The Loft by Brussels Airlines
- Review: Hotel Bristol Warsaw
- Review: Apartament na Mariensztacie
- Warsaw Highlights
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Review: LOT Polish Airlines Business Lounge Warsaw
- Review: Swiss Senator Lounge Zurich
- Review: Swiss Business Class Zurich to Hong Kong
- Review: JW Marriott Hong Kong
- The Peak & Victoria Harbour
- Mutianyu Great Wall
- Jade Buddha Palace, Anshan
- Review: Shenzhen Airlines Business Class Shenyang to Taipei
- Review: The Infinity Lounge by EVA Air
- Review: EVA Air 777 Business Class Taipei to Toronto
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Business Platinum Card from American Express
- Earn 90,000 MR points upon spending $15,000 in the first three months
- Plus, earn 40,000 MR points upon making a purchase in months 14–17 as a cardholder
- And, earn 1.25x MR points on all purchases
- Also, receive a $200 annual travel credit
- Transfer MR points to Aeroplan and other frequent flyer programs for premium flights
- Unlimited airport lounge access for you and one guest at Priority Pass, Plaza Premium, Centurion, and other lounges
- Credits and rebates for business expenses throughout the year with Amex Offers
- Bonus MR points for referring family and friends
- Qualify for the card as a sole proprietor
- Annual fee: $799
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Poland & China 2017
- Booked: Around the World in 16 Days
- Review: Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge Toronto (International)
- Review: Brussels Airlines Business Class Toronto to Brussels
- Review: The Loft by Brussels Airlines
- Review: Hotel Bristol Warsaw
- Review: Apartament na Mariensztacie
- Warsaw Highlights
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Review: LOT Polish Airlines Business Lounge Warsaw
- Review: Swiss Senator Lounge Zurich
- Review: Swiss Business Class Zurich to Hong Kong
- Review: JW Marriott Hong Kong
- The Peak & Victoria Harbour
- Mutianyu Great Wall
- Jade Buddha Palace, Anshan
- Review: Shenzhen Airlines Business Class Shenyang to Taipei
- Review: The Infinity Lounge by EVA Air
- Review: EVA Air 777 Business Class Taipei to Toronto
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Now Brussels air seems to gone from aeroplan. Is this just my imagination?
(I hope!)
Hi Ricky;
Awesome itinerary. I am new at this so not sure why you are calling it a mini RWT when it is a true around the world trip. Thanks.
I also thought that Aeroplan cost more than 150000 points for around the world.
Bernard
Hey Bernard,
Good question! Generally a "mini-RTW" refers to this specific type of trip construction with Aeroplan miles, where you have two stopovers (or one stopover and one open-jaw) in addition to your destination. It doesn’t even have to cross both oceans (i.e., resemble a true around the world trip) to be called a mini-RTW.
This is to distinguish from "true" RTW tickets, which are special tickets sold by each of the major airline alliances that allow you to fly around the world within certain mileage/segment limitations. For more information, read Part 1 of the feature on the Aeroplan mini-RTW.
Nice
You were fortunate to get Swiss awards. I notice that they are not available at the moment. Brussels is OK but hiw long before this disappears and all that is available on aeroplan is ac and lufthansa with hi yq fees. Do you think that the recent happenings between ac and aeroplan are the cause of the lack of award space.
Yeah, I booked this trip back when there were no issues with Swiss awards – now it’s on and off, but I have faith that it’ll be fixed soon given Swiss’s clout within Star Alliance. From what I’ve read it seems to be a genuine technical issue, but Aeroplan are definitely taking their sweet time fixing it.
I certainly hope no more surcharge-free carriers start to have "issues" – that would make Aeroplan even more uncompetitive, and as their breakup with Air Canada approaches, that’s certainly not what they need!
Hi! I’ve been following your blog and really like how you break down the rtw options for aeroplan. I’m planning one right now and am considering europe & asia. You mentioned that you spent 110,000 for business flights and you’re able to go to europe & asia. I thought that going to asia would cost 150,000, how did you book it with 110,000? thanks 🙂
Whoops, my mistake should have been 150,000! Thanks for catching that 🙂
Dang it. I was really hoping you were able to do it for 110k!
If only! 🙂