You can use your Aeroplan points on 40+ airlines: on Air Canada and on partner airlines. Many who are beginning with Aeroplan points don’t know this, but the best value is often on partner airlines. Here’s the full list, while you await our ultimate guide to the Aeroplan program coming soon.
With Aeroplan’s new pricing system, partner airlines are often the most attractive because the price of the flights is fixed so that you can get outsized value and unlimited value with your points.
And among all the airline rewards programs in the world, Aeroplan is the one with the most partner airlines!
These are the 40+ with whom you can use your points. Note that one partner, Emirates, works differently than all the others. And some additional partners allow you to earn Aeroplan points (but not use them), we have listed them at the end, but this is not very interesting or important.
Here is the list of Aeroplan partner airlines.
List in infographic format
Here’s the visual version before the different lists.
List in alphabetical order
Here is the list of Aeroplan partner airlines from A to Z.
- Aegean Airlines
- Air Canada
- Air China
- Air Creebec
- Air Dolomiti
- Air India
- Air Mauritius
- Air New Zealand
- Air Serbia
- ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- Asiana
- Austrian Airlines
- Avianca
- Azul
- Bamboo Airways
- Brussels Airlines
- Calm Air
- Canadian North
- Copa Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- Deutsche Bahn (coming soon)
- EGYPTAIR
- Emirates
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Etihad
- Eurowings
- EVA Air
- GOL
- Gulf Air
- Juneyao Airlines
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- Olympic Air
- Oman Air
- PAL Airlines *NEW*
- SAS (Scandinavian Airlines)
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- South African Airways
- SunExpress
- SWISS
- TAP Air Portugal
- THAI
- Turkish Airlines
- United
- Virgin Australia
- Vistara
List by region
Here is the list of Aeroplan’s partner airlines by region.
Canada
- Air Canada
- Canadian North
- Calm Air
- Air Creebec
- PAL Airlines *NEW*
Americas
- United
- Avianca
- Copa Airlines
- Azul
- GOL
Europe
- TAP Air Portugal
- Lufthansa
- SWISS
- Austrian Airlines
- Brussels Airlines
- LOT Polish Airlines
- SAS (Scandinavian Airlines)
- Eurowings
- Air Dolomiti
- Aegean Airlines
- Olympic Air
- Croatia Airlines
- Air Serbia
- Deutsche Bahn (coming soon)
Middle East and Africa
- Turkish Airlines
- Emirates
- Etihad
- Gulf Air
- Oman Air
- EGYPTAIR
- Ethiopian Airlines
- South African Airways
- Sun Express
- Air Mauritius
Asia
- ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- Bamboo Airways
- Singapore Airlines
- THAI
- Asiana
- Air China
- EVA Air
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Juneyao Airlines
- Air India
- Vistara
Oceania
- Air New Zealand
- Virgin Australia
List by type (alliance/non-alliance/accumulation only)
Here is the list of Aeroplan partner airlines by type.
Star Alliance partners
- Aegean Airlines
- Air Canada
- Air China
- Air India
- Air New Zealand
- ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- Asiana
- Austrian Airlines
- Avianca
- Brussels Airlines
- Copa Airlines
- Croatia Airlines
- Deutsche Bahn (coming soon)
- EGYPTAIR
- Ethiopian Airlines
- EVA Air
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Lufthansa
- SAS (Scandinavian Airlines)
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Singapore Airlines
- South African Airways
- SWISS
- TAP Air Portugal
- THAI
- Turkish Airlines
- United
Non-alliance partners
- Air Creebec
- Air Dolomiti
- Air Mauritius
- Air Serbia
- Azul
- Bamboo Airways
- Calm Air
- Canadian North
- Emirates
- Etihad
- Eurowings
- GOL
- Gulf Air
- Juneyao Airlines
- Olympic Air
- Oman Air
- PAL Airlines *NEW*
- SunExpress
- Virgin Australia
- Vistara
Partners for accumulation only
The above partners allow you to accumulate and use Aeroplan points, but these ones only allow you to accumulate points, so it is certainly less interesting.
Note that only specific flights (codeshare flights, for example) allow you to earn points with the following accumulation partners:
- Aer Lingus
- Cathay Pacific
- Central Mountain Air
- MEA (Middle East Airlines)
- SriLankan Airlines
How to book flights on Aeroplan partner airlines
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In the meantime, you can read 6 important concepts to understand the basics of the Aeroplan program.
In short, for all Aeroplan partner airlines, you will find available flights directly on the Air Canada website or their app by selecting the “Book with points” option.
Pro tip: use the AC Rewards Searcher by Cow Tool, a powerful unofficial tool that lets you perform very advanced searches. We’ll cover that in a separate post soon too. UPDATE: The tool is temporarily closed to new users (sign up to our free newsletter to get an alert when it reopens).
Aeroplan reward flights on partner airlines are always going to cost a fixed price decided by the Aeroplan award charts, but not all seats on partner airline flights are available of course.
That limited availability is precisely how the prices on partner airlines can be offered at a fixed level regardless of the cash price, giving us the potential for unlimited value.
To have the most choice of partner airlines, and therefore have guaranteed lower prices, you have to book in advance and/or be flexible on your dates and routing.
(Even for flights on Air Canada, those same 2 tips are also useful: they’ll allow you to find the seats that cost the lowest amount of Aeroplan points too!)
That’s why the fact Aeroplan has so many airline partners is great! It gives us more availability and options; it makes finding seats easier!
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Summary
Aeroplan is the most important airline rewards program for Canadian travelers, and it prides itself on having 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 on Earth.
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Sometime in 2019 I lost my Aeroplan card, and after contacting Aeroplan I was sent a printable one by email. I was advised that a card would be mailed out to me – this did not happen. After the long Covid hiatus, we are now in the process of resuming overseas travel. Please advise how I can have an official plastic card mailed to me. Thank you
Honestly I didn’t know they still did that. You really don’t need a physical card anymore, as long as your reservation is linked to your Aeroplan account, everything will be automatic. And as a backup it’s always good to have the airline’s app if you have a smartphone, you’ll have the Aeroplan number there if you need (if not the number is all you need so you can write it down the old-school way and have it in case).