There are so many airline options to redeem your Aeroplan points all over the world. Aeroplan actually has more airline partners than any other airline rewards program in the world. Given how these programs work, Aeroplan’s list of 48 partners is extremely valuable and is one of the reasons why it is our favorite airline rewards program for Canadian travelers.
Because the Aeroplan program belongs to Air Canada, many travelers believe the only airline option is Air Canada. It would be very logical to believe this, but the world of travel rewards is frequently counterintuitive like that.
The reality is that the appeal of airline reward programs is often actually their network of partner airlines that gives you so many options to redeem your points for reward flights — almost always for fewer points than on the program owner itself.
The first major changes to the Aeroplan program in nearly 5 years just took effect, with a new category of special partner airlines.
Here are the Aeroplan airline options in 2025 (in the form of infographics, a map, and lists).
Basics — Aeroplan airline options
Here are the vital basics you first need to know about Aeroplan point redemptions:
- There are 2 very distinct mechanisms for reward flights
- On Air Canada (prices not limited, seats not limited)
- On partner airlines (prices are limited, seats are limited)
- The pricing is completely different (the most important thing)
- Dynamic pricing on Air Canada (no outsized value)
- Fixed pricing on partners (set by the award chart)
- There are a few exceptions (as always)
- 7 special partners (prices not limited, seats are limited)
You should read the basics of Aeroplan while you await our new and updated exhaustive guide soon.
Here are the basics about Aeroplan airline options to put together your desired reward flights itinerary:
- There are 48 partner airlines
- In addition to Air Canada, of course
- No airline program in the world has more airline partners
- That gives access to 1300+ destinations around the world
- They are almost all bookable on the Air Canada website
- There are 2 types of partners
- Star Alliance partners and non-alliance partners
- This doesn’t change that much concretely
- There are no restrictions on combining different airlines
- All these options can be combined on the same ticket
- Seats available on **different** partners can be combined together
- Seats available on partners can be combined with any seat on Air Canada
- These airlines all allow you to also earn Aeroplan points
- In addition to being able to redeem points on the airlines
- There are also a few additional partners for earning only
- These are listed at the end of this guide
Overview — Aeroplan airline options
Here’s an infographic that lists all the Aeroplan airline options, sorted by the type of option (which I explain the basics of briefly right below).
Air Canada
Air Canada is pretty straightforward. This isn’t a partner; it’s the airline that the Aeroplan rewards program belongs to. So, you probably already know you can redeem your Aeroplan points on this airline.
I’ve included Air Canada Express and Air Canada Rouge explicitly just for clarity in this section only, but it’s the same thing for partner airlines: direct subsidiaries that have the airline’s name in their name (for example, United’s subsidiary United Express) a partners automatically, too.
Again, the most basic thing to understand about Aeroplan is that the pricing system for reward flights on Air Canada is completely different from that for partner airlines.
In short, there is no guaranteed fixed price for Air Canada flights, so there’s no potential for unlimited value (the amount of points required will often be somewhat related to the cash price). The value still varies, but it varies a lot less. So, there are a lot fewer very good redemptions and a lot fewer bad redemptions; they’re more average.
However, the available seats are not limited, meaning you can redeem your points very simply for any seat on any Air Canada flight.
Special partners (7 airlines)
These 7 partners are the exceptions to the partner airlines’ rules. Air Canada calls them “select” partners.
Flight rewards on these special partners more closely resemble the Air Canada redemptions than the partner airlines’ redemptions. Basically, the price is not fixed by the Aeroplan award chart, but not all seats are available either.
I’ll explain below why these 7 specific airlines work differently.
Star Alliance partners (23 airlines)
Star Alliance is the largest and most prestigious of the 3 global airline alliances and since Air Canada is a member, that gives you access to reward flights on 24 partner airlines in literally every region of the world.
These are some of the largest airlines in the world too, with the biggest destination networks and fleets.
For Aeroplan reward flights on partner airlines, there is a guaranteed fixed price set by the Aeroplan award chart, giving you the potential for unlimited value (the amount of points required is fixed, no matter the cash price).
However, the available seats are limited, meaning you need to be more flexible on routings/dates/etc. and/or book further ahead to redeem your points.
That is why having so many partners makes Aeroplan great: more partners means more available seats.
Non-alliance partners (18 airlines)
Non-alliance partners are airlines that aren’t part of the airline’s own alliance. The pricing system for these non-alliance partners is exactly the same as for Star Alliance partners, with a guaranteed fixed price set by the Aeroplan award chart. So, in practice, there is absolutely no difference between non-alliance partners and Star Alliance partners.
But non-alliance partners are one way Aeroplan really stands out. These 18 non-alliance partners are almost all airlines that aren’t part of any alliance. They are otherwise hard to book with travel rewards and therefore often offer good additional seat availability.
Having these airlines as options therefore adds valuable available seats in more regions and to more destinations. Many airline rewards programs have non-alliance partners like this, but none have as many as Aeroplan.
I’ve spoken with Aeroplan VPs at the top of their leadership team many times, and they are travelers who are rewards enthusiasts and aviation geeks like the most passionate of us travel rewards fans. So, they deliberately set out to add unique partners that give us even more options to redeem points.
The only somewhat special exception is Cathay Pacific, which I will also explain below.
Map & routes — Aeroplan airline options
Here’s the map to show you each Aeroplan airline option’s home region, as knowing this is very useful in planning your redemption of Aeroplan points as a true passionate traveler.
Airline home countries and hubs
As you surely figured out, the dots on the map mark the airline’s home country. As much as possible (barring layout constraints), we tried to place the dot close to the airline’s actual hub, too.
A hub is an airport where an airline operates many flights. For example, just because Lufthansa is a German airline, that doesn’t mean they operate many flights out of the German capital, Berlin (they really don’t).
Also, note that some airlines have multiple hubs in their home country. For example, United has major hubs in Chicago, Newark, Houston, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver. Lufthansa has hubs in Frankfurt and Munich. Air India has hubs in Delhi and Mumbai. Etc.
Finally, there are also 2 main outlier airlines that operate hubs in multiple countries:
- avianca: Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala
- Eurowings: Germany, Austria, Czechia, Kosovo, Spain, Sweden
Airline networks
All of these Aeroplan airline options offer plenty of routes from their home countries.
These airlines obviously all operate many short-distance flights (domestically or to neighboring countries). Most have long-distance flights between their home countries and various parts of the world (especially Star Alliance partners, as they are generally the biggest and most international airlines).
It’s therefore obviously very useful to know the home countries and hubs for these Aeroplan airline options so you have an idea of the available destination network.
Airline routes research
If you want to see the route network for any airline (or also from any airport if you prefer), there are 2 main tools Flytrippers recommends.
The 1st tool is the Flight Connections website. This works great for visually seeing the routes, although it’s not always 100% up to date with the recent changes (rather rare, at least).
You have 2 options for viewing the routes.
There’s a map of the entire global route network for every airline.
And there’s a map of a specific airport’s routes, which you can filter with just 1 desired airline if you want (even with the free version).
The 2nd tool is the Wikipedia website. This is the most up-to-date source, but it is less pleasant in terms of browsing experience.
You also have 2 options.
There is a list of destinations on the airline’s page.
And the airline’s page also lists the main hubs in the right side summary table at the top. You can then go to the hub airports’ pages to see the list of destinations.
Exceptions — Aeroplan airline options
If you’re interested, here’s more info on the 8 partner airlines that are a bit different (the 7 special partners with different flight redemptions and Cathay Pacific with a unique rule).
Special partner (Star Alliance): United
United is the only Star Alliance airline that is part of the Aeroplan special partners, with a different points redemption mechanism.
It’s pretty logical: Air Canada and United have a joint venture for flights between Canada and the United States, where revenue and costs are shared no matter if it’s operated by Air Canada or United.
So it makes sense that the pricing for Aeroplan point redemptions now works the same for United-operated flights as it does for Air Canada-operated flights.
For what it’s worth, United is now also the world’s largest airline (by fleet size).
Special partners (Emirati non-alliance): Emirates + flydubai + Etihad
The trio of airlines from the United Arab Emirates is unique. None of them are part of one of the airline alliances.
Emirates and Etihad are both among the most luxurious and prestigious airlines in the world. As for flydubai, that’s certainly not the case… it just happens to have the same owner as Emirates.
Since it became an Aeroplan partner, Emirates has always been special and has never been bound by the same Aeroplan award chart as the other partners. To be able to add this popular airline as a partner, there had to be a compromise: Aeroplan reward flights on Emirates were governed by a separate award chart.
Now, it has been included in Aeroplan’s new “select partners” category with dynamic pricing. Still, that’s better than simply not having the option to redeem your Aeroplan points on Emirates at all.
Emirates’ owner also has a low-cost subsidiary, flydubai. The airline is now also an Aeroplan partner. The pricing mechanism is the same for flydubai and Emirates.
Etihad used to be governed by the regular partner award chart… but now unfortunately joined the other Emirati airlines as a special partner.
Special partners (domestic non-alliance): Calm Air + Canadian North + PAL Airlines
The last part of the special partners is 3 of the 4 Aeroplan Canadian domestic partners (all except Air Creebec).
These partners actually provided the highest value you could get in all of the world of airline rewards (in economy, so excluding redemptions for premium cabins that are so incredibly valuable).
Flytrippers had been telling you for years how great of a value this was… and it was such a huge value that this sweet spot was eliminated in 2025. It was just too lucrative (for us travelers) to be sustainable (for Aeroplan).
Now, they use dynamic pricing (unfortunately).
Limited partner: Cathay Pacific
The last exception is Cathay Pacific. The Hong Kong-based airline is a member of the oneworld alliance, but it has a unique partnership with Aeroplan.
It is an exception because you can book Aeroplan reward flights only on certain Cathay Pacific routes (whereas with all other partners, you can book every route they operate).
To be clear, the prices for these routes are still governed by the Aeroplan award chart‘s fixed prices. It’s just that you can’t book other routes.
The 8 eligible routes are from Hong Kong (HKG) to Southeast Asian cities:
- Manila, Philippines (MNL)
- Cebu, Philippines (CEB)
- Bangkok, Thailand (BKK)
- Phuket, Thailand (HKT)
- Chiang Mai, Thailand (CNX)
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (SGN)
- Hanoi, Vietnam (HAN)
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (KUL)
That’s limited, but it’s better than not being able to redeem your Aeroplan points for Cathay Pacific flights at all.
However, make sure to check prices with the many different reward programs that use Avios points! It might be cheaper… and even at an equal price, it is better to use the Avios points, which are easier for Canadians to obtain in large quantities, in order to keep your precious Aeroplan points for the best redemptions.
Upcoming changes — Aeroplan airline options
Here’s what’s coming in terms of Aeroplan airline options.
Upcoming additions
The addition of airline partners is not frequent, but it happens!
First, Star Alliance will gain a new member airline in 2026: Italian flag carrier ITA Airways. It’s not something that has happened often in recent years, but more could join someday (although Star Alliance is already the largest of the 3 alliances, with almost twice the number of airlines as each of the others).
But most importantly, Aeroplan has consistently added new non-alliance airline partners since the program was revamped in 2020. So, it’s not impossible for more new partners to join in the future.
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Upcoming removals
While it’s not important at all right now, it’s worth knowing which airlines will no longer be Aeroplan partners (or **could** no longer be partners) in the longer term.
The only confirmed removal is Asiana Airlines, which will disappear due to being acquired by Korean (founding member of the SkyTeam alliance). Asiana will exit Star Alliance at some point, but there’s no set date yet. Asiana doesn’t have many transpacific flights and the other Asian partners thankfully have many flights to South Korea.
If you want to fly on that airline specifically, it’s best to do it sooner rather than later. Once you have a confirmed booking with them, the fact they stop being partners is not very relevant and shouldn’t affect you.
Among potential removals, Oman Air will join the oneworld alliance in 2025. That **could** mean it would no longer be an Aeroplan non-alliance partner (but not necessarily). Anyway, it will become bookable with Avios points, which are even easier to earn in huge quantities than Aeroplan points for Canadians.
Then, Brazilian airlines Azul and GOL are planning to merge. They’re both Aeroplan partners, so it wouldn’t change much even if it **technically** eliminates a partner. There would be as many available destinations, planes, and seats as now, just under 1 name rather than 2 names.
Finally, there’s another development we’ll be following for you: new airline Bamboo Airways is going through financial difficulties as a new startup. It’s a very small partner anyway. And Aeroplan would possibly find an alternative if you have a confirmed booking and Bamboo ceases operations, but I want you to have all the information!
Recent changes — Aeroplan airline options
Here’s what changed if you haven’t paid too much attention to Aeroplan in recent years.
Recent additions
There have been a few new partners added.
Swiss leisure airline edelweiss has become an Aeroplan partner in 2024. Emirati low-cost airline flydubai had joined before that.
Lufthansa-owned Eurowings and Discover Airlines joined. Vietnamese startup Bamboo Airways joined. As did another tiny airline, Air Mauritius.
Recent removals
A few partners have recently disappeared, too.
Vistara was removed as a partner in 2024 due to being acquired by Air India. This didn’t reduce the number of available routes, planes, or seats, like the Azul/GOL situation: Air India was already a partner in Star Alliance, so it has just grown bigger.
SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) completed a rare alliance switch, moving from Star Alliance to SkyTeam in 2024 (that’s what led to their insane promotion to get 1 million points). Coverage of the region by other Aeroplan partners (13 European airlines) is already great, so it’s not that dramatic.
Small Mexican regional airline Aeromar went out of business in 2023, like Slovenian flag carrier ADRIA in 2019.
Partners for earning only — Aeroplan airline options
All the 48 Aeroplan airline partners above allow you to earn and redeem Aeroplan points. Of course, earning is only possible for certain plane ticket fare classes.
But a few additional airline partners only allow you to earn points (but not to redeem them), so it is certainly less interesting for the vast majority of travelers.
Note that on these specific additional partners for earning only, the ability to earn Aeroplan points often applies only to specific flights (codeshare flights, for example).
Here are the 4 additional Aeroplan airline options for earning only:
- Aer Lingus — Ireland
- Central Mountain Air — Canada
- MEA (Middle East Airlines) — Lebanon
- SriLankan Airlines — Sri Lanka
Lists (regions, types, size, A to Z) — Aeroplan airline options
Here are the lists if you prefer the bullet points format instead of the infographics above.
List by region (and home country)
Here’s the list of Aeroplan airline options by region (and in each region, they’re sorted by approximately and subjectively how useful they should be for travelers in general).
Canada
- Air Canada
- PAL Airlines
- Canadian North
- Calm Air
- Air Creebec
Americas
- United (United States)
- avianca (Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala)
- Copa Airlines (Panama)
- Azul (Brazil)
- GOL (Brazil)
Europe
- TAP Air Portugal (Portugal)
- Lufthansa (Germany)
- SWISS (Switzerland)
- Austrian (Austria)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Poland)
- Discover Airlines (Germany)
- Brussels Airlines (Belgium)
- edelweiss (Switzerland)
- Eurowings (Germany, Austria, Czechia, Kosovo, Spain, Sweden)
- Lufthansa City Airlines (Germany)
- Air Dolomiti (Italy)
- Aegean (Greece)
- Olympic Air (Greece)
- Croatia Airlines (Croatia)
- Air Serbia (Serbia)
- ITA Airways (Italy) *joining in 2026
Africa
- EGYPTAIR (Egypt)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopia)
- South African Airways (South Africa)
- Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
Middle East
- Turkish Airlines (Türkiye)
- SunExpress (Türkiye)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain)
- Oman Air (Oman)
- Etihad (UAE)
- Emirates (UAE)
- flydubai (UAE)
Asia
- ANA/All Nippon Airways (Japan)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- THAI (Thailand)
- EVA Air (Taiwan)
- Air China (China)
- Air India (India)
- Asiana Airlines (South Korea)
- Bamboo Airways (Vietnam)
- Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
- Shenzhen Airlines (China)
- Juneyao Air (China)
Australia/Pacific
- Air New Zealand (New Zealand)
- Virgin Australia (Australia)
List by type
Here’s the list of Aeroplan airline options by type of option.
Air Canada
- Air Canada
- Air Canada Express
- Air Canada Rouge
Special partners
- United (Star Alliance)
- Emirates
- Etihad
- flydubai
- Calm Air
- Canadian North
- PAL Airlines
Star Alliance partners
- Aegean
- Air China
- Air India
- Air New Zealand
- ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- Asiana Airlines
- Austrian
- avianca
- Brussels Airlines
- Copa Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- EGYPTAIR
- Ethiopian Airlines
- EVA Air
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- South African Airways
- SWISS
- TAP Air Portugal
- THAI
- Turkish Airlines
- ITA Airways *joining in 2026
Non-alliance partners
- Air Creebec
- Air Dolomiti
- Air Mauritius
- Air Serbia
- Azul
- Bamboo Airways
- Discover Airlines
- edelweiss
- Eurowings
- GOL
- Gulf Air
- Juneyao Air
- Lufthansa City Airlines
- Olympic Air
- Oman Air
- SunExpress
- Virgin Australia
List by size
Here’s the list of Aeroplan airline options, from largest to smallest (based on the imperfect metric that is the number of aircraft in the fleet):
- United (922 planes, 365 destinations)
- Air China (492 planes, 195 destinations)
- Turkish Airlines (400 planes, 340 destinations)
- Air Canada (353 planes, 195 destinations)
- Lufthansa (274 planes, 229 destinations)
- Emirates (260 planes, 144 destinations)
- ANA/All Nippon Airways (212 planes, 92 destinations)
- Shenzhen Airlines (200 planes, 79 destinations)
- Cathay Pacific* (177 planes, 81 destinations)
- Azul (167 planes, 161 destinations)
- Singapore Airlines (152 planes, 81 destinations)
- GOL (146 planes, 76 destinations)
- Ethiopian Airlines (145 planes, 213 destinations)
- avianca (139 planes, 78 destinations)
- Air India (186 planes, 103 destinations)
- Eurowings (119 planes, 152 destinations)
- Air New Zealand (108 planes, 50 destinations)
- Virgin Australia (106 planes, 37 destinations)
- Copa Airlines (92 planes, 82 destinations)
- SWISS (88 planes, 120 destinations)
- Juneyao Air (88 planes, 86 destinations)
- EVA Air (86 planes, 62 destinations)
- flydubai (80 planes, 124 destinations)
- Asiana (78 planes, 90 destinations)
- EGYPTAIR (77 planes, 102 destinations)
- TAP Air Portugal (75 planes, 87 destinations)
- LOT Polish Airlines (75 planes, 120 destinations)
- THAI (71 planes, 60 destinations)
- Austrian (65 planes, 121 destinations)
- Etihad (60 planes, 77 destinations)
- Aegean (60 planes, 161 destinations)
- Sun Express (53 planes, 66 destinations)
- PAL Airlines (45 planes, 29 destinations)
- Oman Air (45 planes, 46 destinations)
- Brussels Airlines (43 planes, 92 destinations)
- Gulf Air (35 planes, 59 destinations)
- Canadian North (33 planes, 27 destinations)
- Bamboo Airways (29 planes, 27 destinations)
- Air Serbia (26 planes, 81 destinations)
- Discover Airlines (22 planes, 62 destinations)
- Air Creebec (19 planes, 16 destinations)
- Air Dolomiti (19 planes, 26 destinations)
- edelweiss (18 planes, 65 destinations)
- Calm Air (15 planes, 14 destinations)
- Olympic Air (15 planes, 28 destinations)
- Croatia Airlines (13 planes, 31 destinations)
- South African Airways (12 planes, 16 destinations)
- Air Mauritius (10 planes, 12 destinations)
- Lufthansa City Airlines (6 planes, 8 destinations)
*Only 8 of Cathay Pacific’s destinations are eligible for Aeroplan point redemptions
List by alphabetical order
Here’s the list of Aeroplan airline options, from A to Z:
- Aegean
- Air Canada
- Air China
- Air Creebec
- Air Dolomiti
- Air India
- Air Mauritius
- Air New Zealand
- Air Serbia
- ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- Asiana Airlines
- Austrian
- avianca
- Azul
- Bamboo Airways
- Brussels Airlines
- Calm Air
- Canadian North
- Cathay Pacific
- Copa Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- Discover Airlines
- edelweiss
- EGYPTAIR
- Emirates
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Etihad
- Eurowings
- EVA Air
- flydubai
- GOL
- Gulf Air
- ITA Airways *joining in 2026
- Juneyao Air
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Lufthansa City Airlines
- Olympic Air
- Oman Air
- PAL Airlines
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- South African Airways
- SunExpress
- SWISS
- TAP Air Portugal
- THAI
- Turkish Airlines
- United
- Virgin Australia
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Summary
Aeroplan is the most important airline rewards program for Canadian travelers, and one of the major benefits is that it gives you access to the most partner airlines in the world! The list of Aeroplan airline partners is indeed very long, giving you plenty of options for your next reward flight, almost anywhere in the world.
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