The Complete Guide to Aeroplan Stopovers

One of the best and most powerful features of the Aeroplan loyalty program is the ability to book stopovers for an additional 5,000 Aeroplan points.

In taking advantage of Aeroplan stopovers, you’ll be able to add more destinations to your journey and turn one trip into multiple trips for a modest extra cost.

Plus, leveraging stopovers can be a great strategic move to use when piecing together complex Aeroplan itineraries and navigating partner award availability.

A Summary of Aeroplan’s Stopover Rules

Prior to diving into the many applications of Aeroplan’s stopover feature, let’s go over the rules that govern its use.

Stopovers cost 5,000 points

You’re allowed to add a stopover at an intermediate point on a one-way journey for an extra 5,000 Aeroplan points per passenger.

On a round-trip booking, which is essentially just two one-way journeys, you’re allowed two stopovers (one in each direction), which would result in a total of 10,000 Aeroplan points per person. 

Stopovers can’t be in Canada or the United States

Stopovers are permitted everywhere other than in Canada or the United States. Booking a stopover within Canada or the United States will result in two one-way segments, so you’re better off just booking two one-ways to begin with.

Stopovers elsewhere in North America – such as in Mexico, Central America, or the Caribbean – are allowed, as are stopovers in any of the other zones on the Aeroplan Flight Reward Chart (South America, Atlantic, and Pacific). 

Indeed, this opens up some incredible opportunities to see more of the world, since Aeroplan has partner airlines in almost every corner of the globe:

• Fly from Montreal to Zurich, stopover, and then continue onward to Rome
• Fly from Vancouver to Istanbul, stopover, and then continue onward to Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Fly from Toronto to Cancun, stopover, and then continue onward to Panama City
• Fly from Toronto to Lisbon, stopover, and then continue onward to Cape Town
• Fly from New York to Singapore, stopover, and then continue onward to Australia
• Fly from Seattle to Tokyo, stopover, and then continue onward to Bangkok

Stopovers can be up to 45 days

Stopovers are limited to 45 days in duration. This means that for any stops between 24 hours and 45 days in length, you’ll only be charged an extra 5,000 points per person for the stopover.

Any stopovers that exceed 45 days in length will be treated as a…