Aeroplan to screw customers

Aeroplan to screw customers · Thursday July 26, 2007 by colin newell

Read it for yourself…

My wife and I have enough Aeroplan units to fly to the moon – and Aeroplan will take it all away because we might not use the points this year.

This is like the criminals that offer gift certificates that slowly expire. This practice (Chapters Books does it I believe) has been banned in Ontario.

It is bullshit and should be banned in Canada.

Aeroplan: You suck.

Large corporations like insurance companies, banks, oil companies, wireless companies, cable companies and entities like Aeroplan, are run mainly by corporate scumbags who are paid to lie, misrepresent, bamboozle and deceit the public. Like politicians.

When I joined Aeroplan about five years ago I was under the impression that when I would fly Air Canada (an airline consisting for a good part – in particular the ones behind and around the counters – of blasé air heads), I would receive their miles. Period.
I even took out a $29 a year Aeroplan credit card to make my greed complete.

Ha!

In June 2007 I took a return flight on Air Canada and its partner-in-deception British Midland, from Toronto via London Heathrow to Amsterdam.
When no Aeromiles showed up on my account after two months, I went through all the acrobatics (finding stubs, enveloppes, stamps, copying tickets, etc) needed to send the info by mail to Vancouver.
People are forced to perform this nonsens because it’s almost impossible to get to speak with somebody from Aeroplan. And if you ever do, you’ll find out it’s such a humbling experience that any self-esteem you thought you had, can only be recuperated by means of serious counselling.

I recently received an email from Aeroplan advising me that tickets that fall in the classes R, G, N, P, K are not elible to earn miles on routes to Europe (incl.Britain) and Israel. Most other routes only give a 25-50% percentage.
The only way to find that out is to dive deep into the bowels of their website if you suspect a rat before signing up. Of course that’s not what trusting and/or not so computer-literate folks do.

Thus the old phrase that the devil always sh..s on the same pile, again came true. People who don’t really need the points (executives, assorted corporate rifraf, politicians, the Mafia, the rich and famous) will get them and the folks who purchase the lower fare tickets, are getting the finger.

— Sorbonne Sep 25, 07:44 am #
Continuing my above monologue, I’m happy to announce that I just redeemed all my points for gift certificates, and canceled my $29 Aeroplan creditcard. Straight back to my trusted blue Airmiles and the AE Platinum $50 card where the miles keep on rolling in (and which comes with several insurance coverages). Just got my 2nd Sony W90 digital camera!
Unless you belong to that selected group of dignitaries (as described in the last paragraph of my previous entry), I’d advise you to redeem whatever Aeromiles you have pronto and show Air Canada and Aeroplan YOUR finger. And if you ever find me on an AC flight from this day forward, please spit moi in the face.

— Sorbonne Feb 10, 08:20 pm #
Sorbonne’s tome should be required reading for all Canadians and a warning to those that naively feel that these giant corporations have one iota of sympathy for us consumers.

— Colin Mar 17, 01:09 pm #