Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[pigletto]

YES! I've booked WestJet numerous times thru Expedia Uuhm, hello, triple dipping -- AM, Expedia points AND Westjet Rewards) You'll get to the final page where you're adding names etc and this little drop down menu appears
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YES, so long as it is a specific item that can be ordered thru a website accessible in Canada and can be paid for with a Canadian credit card then you can order it. Just tell them exactly what you want: age of person wanting ticket, date & park and they'll get you a quote. HAVE FUN!

NO minimum purchase for this offer, that was the first coupon that you had to spend $100. You will get the 10X on ANY purchases made thru the portal until midnight Sept 2nd

Did your miles that you earned appear on the receipt or is it just the miles that are already in your account that didn't print? If it's just your current miles, that is a common Rexall issue for me .. never figured out if there is any reason to it or not. If it's today's earned miles, just keep a copy of the flyer to refer to but I'd be surprised if they don't post to your account in the morning!

The miles that I currently have posted on the receipt but the miles I earned did not. I will wait a few days for sure. I have a feeling they will post like you are saying,

 

[Days In the Sun]

Is there a minimum amount? I thought it’s $100 but can’t see it in terms and conditions on the website.

No minimum. Spend $100 was the first round-up coupon and it expired. Minimum would be $20 to earn 10 airmiles.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I've been doing airmiles for years (to help with the cost of my DL trips) but basically only do IGA (groceries and love blue fridays) and shell gas. What am I missing and how do I get the coupons? I've been scanning this thread but am having a hard time figuring out stuff.

Hubby is stuck at his desk in the middle of a few fires that need to be put out so i can tackle this right now!
to the best group of Airmiles hunters, you'll get lots of help!

I update the title of this thread with the page of where the first mention of the upcoming flyers appear, generally happens sometime on Wednesday. Whenever coupons appear (most often for Rexall) i try to provide links to those or images if there's no link. You need to make sure you've got your Airmiles profile setup to receive emails from all of the sponsors as well as AM directly.

I make all of my posts in this colour & font so you can easily scan thru and just read my posts if you're wanting to just get the gist of what's happening. If you can't find what you're looking for just ask! This is the best community, we all love making sure everyone earns the maximum number of miles while spending the absolute minimum amount of $$

 

[Bossy22]

Hubby is stuck at his desk in the middle of a few fires that need to be put out so i can tackle this right now!
to the best group of Airmiles hunters, you'll get lots of help!

I update the title of this thread with the page of where the first mention of the upcoming flyers appear, generally happens sometime on Wednesday. Whenever coupons appear (most often for Rexall) i try to provide links to those or images if there's no link. You need to make sure you've got your Airmiles profile setup to receive emails from all of the sponsors as well as AM directly.

I make all of my posts in this colour & font so you can easily scan thru and just read my posts if you're wanting to just get the gist of what's happening. If you can't find what you're looking for just ask! This is the best community, we all love making sure everyone earns the maximum number of miles while spending the absolute minimum amount of $$

Thanks so I much!!! Looking forward to taking part in this thread! We have enough air miles for 2.25 adult 5 day hoppers. My goal is to get 4 by next summer! Not sure if I can make it but I’ll try!!!

 

[tinkerone]

Oh, my dear DH did it again. Sent him to Shell last night to get 25 liters of gas, it was the 4th and last fill to get the 100 AM's for August. He came back complaining that the receipt didn't show the 100 AM's and he will not be going back to that Shell if they don't honor their offers. One look at the receipt and I could see he put in 25 dollars and not 25 liters.
How could I not point that out to him....lol.

 

[Tinkershelly]

HI all...so I’m im out on the balcony at WL watching trucks get unloaded and the garbage dumped while I sip my morning tea and see what you have been up to. Yes, we have a lovely view of the service area. On the plus side we can see the castle in the distance and have a good view of the evening fireworks. We had a nice morning at the pool yesterday and then had a blast at MNSSHP last night. The park actually felt a little quiet even at 4pm when we got in but it had rained really heavily from about 1-2:30 so I’ll assume that a lot of people left early. Today we have no plans so probably back to the pool.

On an even higher note we are now trying to figure out how we are getting home....thank you Dorian. Disney has sent out notifications of closures starting tomorrow and the airline emailed me suggesting that we change out flight to either leave today or Thursday. UGGGG! I’m having a hard time getting info on what could potentially happen. There is a flight at 7:50pm Monday night and that would be so bad as we are scheduled to fly Tuesday morning at 8am but I don’t know if that’s early enough.

Good grief it just started to POUR rain. Maybe today is going to be a shopping day

Orlando International Airport has just lifted their closure for tomorrow. I'm not sure what that means for the individual airlines but the airport will be open tomorrow

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...ernational-airport-open-labor-day/2186184001/

 

[TammyLynn33]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

 

[alohamom]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

WOW-so sorry to hear that happened to you.

 

[bababear_50]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

Hi Hon
I am so sorry this happened to you.
I felt with 25+ years of special needs experience and a degree that I might have something to contribute to the DISabilities forum but everytime I go there I get thumped all over. I now stay on the Canadian forum .
Hugs
Mel

 

[tinkerone]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

Yes, this group is pretty protective of each other and our personal journeys. Great group of people. There was, once, a person who came on and jumped on a member for some absurd reason, they were quickly shown the way out. No need for negativity. If you don't like what you see, bye, move on.
Sorry you had such a hard time on the other thread but your more than welcome here!

 

[Days In the Sun]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

Agree not necessary at all. Please don't take it personally though as you bordered on a very hot topic which is so many people expecting seats with their children without paying for seat selection. If you hadn't mentioned "small child" I think your comments might have been better received. Don't give up, I'm sure there are many nice people on that board as well.

 

[hdrolfe]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

I believe it's a Canada/US difference, Canadian Airlines will let you choose seats together for free with your child, in the US, nope. Personally, it's why I would choose a Canadian Airline, though I do often pay for "better" seats because kiddo has such a hard time flying. Hey if someone else wants to deal with his throwing up, I'd be happy to be able to sit and watch the movie

I guess no one remembers way back in time when people were seated together as a matter of course. No need to pick your seats in advance or worry about not sitting with your kids.

 

[ottawamom]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

I, like many others, rarely venture over to the other boards. When I'm planning a trip I may if I can't find an answer here in Canadian DIS. It's a dangerous world out there. So sorry you had that experience but don't take it to heart. It just seems to be the way a number of people interact when anonymously posting. I doubt they would say the same things if they had to use their real name.

As an aside I have found when traveling with Air Canada that if we are all under one confirmation # we are usually seated together. I am a stickler for checking in at the 24hr mark. My little ones are all grown up and if we didn't sit together it wouldn't matter so I don't tend to pay for seat selection. But as @hdrolfe said the rules are different in Canada than they are in the US.

 

[tinkerone]

I usually fly JetBlue out of the US and they don't charge for seat selection, you pick them when you book your flight. I love love love JetBlue and flying out of the US. It's so easy when you have already cleared customs.
But now I'm wayyyyy off topic, sorry.

 

[Aliciahere]

If you book Air Canada flights with Expedia.ca, can you still get Aeroplan miles on the booked flights? TIA!

Yes BUT....... when you book through Expedia most of the time they are going to give you Basic Economy seats, and you don’t earn points on thos fares

 

[AngelDisney]

Yes, this group is pretty protective of each other and our personal journeys. Great group of people. There was, once, a person who came on and jumped on a member for some absurd reason, they were quickly shown the way out. No need for negativity. If you don't like what you see, bye, move on.
Sorry you had such a hard time on the other thread but your more than welcome here!

Yes, I remember that time.

 

[mort1331]

Ahh those good ol Canucks eh.
Please and Thank you s all
keep up the smiles

 

[Aliciahere]

Just wanted to once again thank you guys for being wonderful. I love that I can post here without getting attacked .. I just made the mistake of posting on the transportation board bc I was shocked about the fees to seat select to sit with a small child and oh my I heard everything from do you expect free groceries at the store too ? You chose to have children . Do you “use your “cute kids to try and get hotel upgrades” To maybe you can’t afford Disney right now if you can’t afford air.. yikes ( was going to middle of nowhere wisc actually hence cant swing the $1700 air canada cost)
Anyways thank you ladies for always being kind and respectful

I saw that post and people can be so mean!! Sux that it happened to you

Just to clarify some info on traveling with children. MOST Canadian airlines have free advanced seat selection when traveling with minors (not all though... I’m looking at you Sunwing). But in order to get it you need to call the airline directly and get those seats assigned. It’s one adult and two minors (if you are traveling as a family of four the second adult would have to pay to get the seat assignment together guaranteed).

Now, in most instances, if you don’t do this, or if you are traveling with a different carrier, when you check in online you can change your seats and almost always get seats together (but not guaranteed). Even those airlines who assigned you seats without you paying for them - don’t guarantee them! This is especially true for airlines that overbook (Delta, United, AA, AC, they are bad for this)

And even if you do pay for seat selection, if they switch out your plane (happening alot because of the Max8 issues), they will try to get you the seats you were previously assigned, but it’s not a guarantee and you may get refunded.

So complicated! Airlines will do everything to get every last dime out of you, it sux so much! Your best bet is to purchase seat selection

 

[Donald - my hero]

Yes BUT....... when you book through Expedia most of the time they are going to give you Basic Economy seats, and you don’t earn points on thos fares

For about 6 months after both AC & WJ put the whole "butt in the seat, nothing else" fares in place this was true but now you are able to chose different levels of fares. Because of this change I'll consider using them again!!
This is how AC looks now:

Once you select your flight you get to see all the options (holy $$$ Batman )

Westjet doesn't give you the warning on the first page but once you select your flight you see similar options

 

[Days In the Sun]

New roundup coupon for airmilesshops:



Not valid if you've done it previously (backside):