Emirates First Class Now Bookable on Aeroplan!

When Aeroplan announced that Emirates would become its newest partner airline in late 2022, there was much fanfare about the ability to book Emirates First Class using Aeroplan points. As part of the roll out, it was expected that Emirates First Class would be available in late January 2023.

As promised, Emirates First Class is now available for booking using Aeroplan points, and flights are loaded into the Aeroplan booking engine.

Book Emirates First Class with Aeroplan Points

You can now book Emirates First Class using Aeroplan points. Unlike other First Class products available through the loyalty program, such as ANA First Class, Lufthansa First Class, and Oman Air First Class, flights with Emirates are priced according to a separate chart.

The pricing for Emirates First Class is higher than the prices for First Class flights with other partner airlines. As a reminder, Emirates’s separate award chart is as follows:

Note that instead of a fixed price for a flight, you can expect to pay a range of prices for Emirates flights in each class of service. There are five different distance bands, with the cost increasing as you move from band to band.

It’s important to note that the roll out of Emirates flights with Aeroplan is set to happen in three different stages. This marks the end of the second stage, and the final stage, in which we expect to see a wider range of prices for Emirates flights, is slated for some time later on this year.

Until then, we expect that the cost of booking Emirates flights to be relatively static until the partnership is fully implemented.

Let’s take a look at the pricing and availability for a few of the different distance bands.

0–2,000 Miles Flown

In the shortest distance band for flights of up to 2,000 miles, the stated range is 65,000–175,000 points for a First Class flight. From Dubai, this covers the area around the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Central Asia.

For a shorter flight from Dubai to Bahrain, a First Class award prices at 77,000 Aeroplan points, which is certainly a steep price to pay for a flight that’s just over an hour long.

Heading further afield to Istanbul, which measures around 1,883 miles from Dubai, the cost rises to 102,000 Aeroplan points.

In both examples, the prices are in the lower half of the published range, which is similar to what we saw with the recent changes to…