Best option = Drive your new car. Enjoy the Scenery & Save. Drive time = 11 hours incl. 1 hour stop. Drive distance 970km. You need 70 liters of gas for your Crosstrek @1.55 a liter = 108.50 CAD to drive 1 way. By the way, no luggage charge in your car! ; ) 2 passenger = same cost! ; )
instead of using expensive airlines that don't offer anything for the price paid, he could get the cheaper airlines. I mean witrh air canada he gets the ticket but must also pay extra for checkin...wtf Not to mention tro get a refund he must also pay a fee....wtf is this scam?! This is why people should be starting to have more brains and refuse to use air travel with such predatory practices. You pay for your plane ticket AFTER you arrive at the destination. Just like in the restaurant. The service provided is similar. What if the experience of being transported is bad, or heck, you don't even arrive in worst case scenario. You're late, there were infants making noise all the time, cramped seats, etc... If you pay after, you get to say, F U, for this trip, you get 300 dollars and not the 1000 you ask. The service was terrible.
Air Canada's version of the "Russian reach around?" This was years ago, some supermarkets in the UK gave "Green Shield Stamps," It was very popular with customers and the stamps could be exchanged for a discount on your shopping, or you could get gifts like an electric kettle, or something equally exciting. A couple decided to save for a car!!!! They saved for years, got to within a few hundred stamps and the company who did the stamps pulled the plug and stopped doing it. The couple ended up with huge piles of books with green shield stamps and nothing to show for it. There is no such thing as "free."
We had the same stores here in the US... Green Stamps. The idea was you went to stores that all had the green stamps program and for every cent you spent in the store you got back in stamps. Put them in your green stamp books and then when you have enough points you went to the green stamp store and picked out what you wanted. My mom got tupperware and an electric iron with green stamps. I think that whole thing ended back in the 70s due to lack of quality rewards.
Yeah. Wanted to book a one wayticket for my wife but it was more expensive than a round trip so ordered the round trip and just did not use the flight back. Criminals!
We use the Alaska Airlines Visa. Hate to say it, after such a beautiful rant, but we've taken free multiple flights to Europe and Hawaii on the points. They even cross over to companion airlines. Recently we used the points on British Airways to go to Ireland (basically free). My wife travels a couple of times a year from the East Coast to Seattle, on a much reduced fare, and often upgrades to first class with some extra points. Not what you want to hear, but we love our Alaska Visa. But if it worked like your Aeroplan, I'd cut it up and never use it again.
WOW!!! I get Delta points on my American Express Card. I've used it several times over the years and gotten free tickets (plus a few bucks in taxes) for round-trip flights from St Louis to Sacramento and back and another to Seattle and back & a free round-trip flight for my brother from Seattle to Philadelphia and back. I now have enough to almost do another round-trip flight to the coast. I'm very happy with Delta. There must be someone that you can report this to...
More like Aeroscam! I hate that as consumers and ordinary working people we get scammed by government and corporations every day and with everything we buy, because clearly they're not already making enough money. Lots of money isn't enough for them, no, they want all the money!
Yep, you're getting screwed! London to Edinburgh on roughly the same dates is less than 100GBP / 173 CAD. Pretty similar flight time. And of course the loyalty card is screwing you - any time a corporation looks like they're giving something for nothing, you're getting screwed somewhere along the line! 😊
I am forced to fly for work (cant drive to Hawaii) but for our family holidays on the mainland we ALWAYS drive. We make the drive part of the vacation and enjoy the adventure.
This kind of system was never designed for the customer benefit, it's for the company and banks, the customer is just the schmuck paying for it all, believing he gets something
I have Delta Skymiles 58,546 only thing I have even been able to do is like change a seat because you have to be like a Diamond member or something to do anything good which takes like forever to get to because you have to go thru silver, gold, & Platinum first and they reset it like every year, you don't lose your mileage but you lose your status so you have to climb the ladder and spend so much money like $5K or something to get to each tier. Its really crazy so I signed up for it but I really do not pay much attention to it because I hardly ever fly. Last two years I only really flew and gathered those miles because of my dads Alzheimer's and his death.
I used my skymiles to upgrade to Delta One on a transatlantic flight last year... only a Silver medallion member still have about 160,000 miles... that would get me a basic economy flight
I have a Citibank CC. 2% cash back on all purchases. That's it. 1% when you charge, 1% when you pay the bill. In the Fall of last year I used it to book two economy tickets from Madrid Spain to Porto in Portugal. 1:15 minute flight. $190 total. IIRC, that included a checked bag for each passenger.
Something like that isn't possible with blockchains and smart contracts, due to their open and transparent nature, everyone can look into the code and verify if the things they say are true. A new paradigm is upon us.
It will be a cold day in hell before I ever give Air Canada a dollar when asked at the cashier if I collect Aeroplan I say no, I can only support one criminal organization at a time. The government has that position already.
If you only have 65K points, and need it to cover two people for a round trip, your max per trip is 16,250 points per segment. The first flight out at 6:43am had two seats in Business class for only 15K +CA$45. You will need to cover the difference. Pay to play.
My TD Visa Rewards. No FEES, and I get a bit of spending reward back every month instantly which I accumulate and pay some balance off anytime, and i currently have $66 after less than a year.
You'd be better off getting a cash back card. You would've had approximately$ 2000.00 to $3000.00 USD saved up in that time. You could've paid for your flight and had all expenses covered.
the stars are giving you a warning....don't fly you may get one of Boeings fine aircraft that has a panel come off in flight right by your window...may i suggest you just drive and enjoy the company of the other person you are traveling with and take in the scenery along the way
Never mind the money. The points total on your original selections didn't match the total asked. I would get on the phone with them. I think the site is broken.
here in greece...our bigger power provider that is called DEI has a program you can choose...that you pay 3 extra euros per bill so that YOU PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT by choosing the provider to give you power from green power sources!!!! nothing seems strange to me nowadays. Not even what you say about AEROPLAN!
Not that this really helps, but it is possible that you were comparing apples and oranges. When looking up the price, you chose the most basic price which did not show details of what's included (free bag, seat selection, cancellation). On Aeroplan (which makes me think of Aeroflot) you chose the middle option which inclded one free bag and seat selection. To me, it looks like your points almost covered the difference in cash value for the ticket "upgrade" to include those options. Still a scam in my book.
drive your fancy new Subaru... love your rants tho.... kwick yep... but its automatic 3 cents a gallon on gas and 5% instore purchase.... wait a minute~!!! they are charging you full fare for Marty??
airfares are getting stupid expensive in Europe, as well. Everything costs extra, non "budget" airlines throw you a freaking biscuit and a glass of water and call it a day and you get to pay hundreds of euros for a a 2-3 hour flight. Aaa, want to sit next to your wife who's scared of flying to comfort her, f you, 50 euros. Want to carry luggage bigger than a postsge stamp rucksack, f you, 50 euros
Silly Claus, of course it doesn't add up, you have to buy Aeroplan Visa Premium, you will pay $200 monthly, but they will pay YOU $1000 in value for your flight, haha!
Where have ya been Claus? This rip off has been out forever. The only people that can benefit are high net worth individuals but they pay cash because they dont need to borrow money for their everyday purchases. Debt is the means to keep ya enslaved to banks. The narrative that folks are fed is that ya cant live a good life without being up to your eyeballs in debt. Being broke has been normalized. Having cash in hand is abnormal.
Claus, you're getting s c r e w e d. A US flight from Salt Lake City UT to San Fran, CA same dates and equivalent distance: $118 round trip ($236.00 for two passengers).
You should look at the rewards!. I have watched a few of your last vids..... Rails and way off, you're missing the details and half ideas and less knowledge.
