Air Canada Aeroplan Buy Points: Up to 30% Off, for a Seat You Can Already Book (October 2026)

Last updated: October 6, 2026

Air Canada Aeroplan is selling points at up to 30% off for purchases from September 28, 2026 through 11:59 p.m. PT on October 13, 2026. This round is a discount on the price. You receive the points you buy, at a lower Canadian-dollar rate. You do not receive bonus points on top.

The headline price is easy to state and easy to misread. The undiscounted price is 3.75¢ CAD per point. Thirty percent off that price is 2.625¢ CAD. Upgraded Points and AwardWallet convert the top tier to about 1.85¢ USD. Four October writeups then print four different tier grids, and Aeroplan has a history of targeting purchase offers. The grid on your own account is the offer.

The points are for a seat you can already find. Aeroplan books Air Canada and Star Alliance partners, plus other partners, on a distance chart that this site already uses for partner business class. The purchase is worth it when the cash fare, minus the taxes on the award, beats the receipt for the points that award still needs, and a 1:1 transfer cannot cover those points. It is a bad stash. The last two bonus-style sales were cheaper.

Before you buy points: Run your spending through the credit card rewards calculator. A buy-points sale does not fix a wallet that should be earning a transferable currency. Chase Ultimate Rewards, Amex Membership Rewards, Capital One miles, and Bilt points all transfer to Aeroplan at 1:1. Pay cash only for the gap a transfer cannot cover.

The promo, without the fluff

Open the buy-points page while you are logged in. The ratio and the total on that screen are the offer. Milesopedia, Prince of Travel, Upgraded Points, and AwardWallet are reporting the same window and the same kind of sale, then splitting on the bands.

Card transfer bonuses that are live this month are on the transfer bonuses page. This sale is a points purchase. It is not one of those rows. Checked October 6, 2026, that page has no Aeroplan row.

The tiers are not the same on every account

All four pages are about this sale. None of them is a substitute for the grid in your account. Milesopedia calls its table the official grid. The other three, read against each other, describe a later start for every discount and a later start for 30% off.

Two gaps sit in the printed tables, and filling them in yourself is how a headline becomes the wrong price.

Milesopedia’s rows skip 76,000–79,000 and 96,000–99,000. AwardWallet’s bullets skip 81,000–84,000 and 101,000–109,000. Prince of Travel’s “or more” wording runs each discount until the next threshold, which fills those holes. Upgraded Points prints continuous bands. If your amount lands in a hole on the page you read, the purchase screen still has a number. Use that number.

The practical disagreement is where 30% begins. Milesopedia starts it at 100,000 points. Prince of Travel, Upgraded Points, and AwardWallet start it at 110,000. Prince’s own cliff only works on the later start: moving from 100,000 to 110,000 “only adds $75” if 100,000 is still 25% off. On Milesopedia’s grid, 100,000 is already 30% off, and that $75 step does not exist.

What you pay per point

The whole price, before sales tax, is the list price times the discount. 3.75¢ CAD × (1 − discount).

The charge is in Canadian dollars. Upgraded Points converts a 250,000-point purchase, CA$6,562.50, to $4,625. That is 1.85¢ USD exactly. AwardWallet states $1 USD = $1.41 CAD and also prints about 1.85¢. Dividing 2.625¢ by 1.41 is closer to 1.86¢. Use the CAD total on the receipt. Your card’s conversion is the USD price, and a Canadian tax line makes it higher.

A few amounts are worth pricing in advance, because the grids do agree on some of them.

Milesopedia’s worked example is the 100,000-point line at 30% off: CA$2,625 instead of CA$3,750. That example is right if your screen starts 30% at 100,000. It is the wrong example if your screen starts 30% at 110,000. In that case 100,000 points are still 25% off, at CA$2,812.50, and the 30% price begins at 110,000 points for CA$2,887.50.

The discount applies to the whole purchase, so a threshold can make a larger buy cheaper than a smaller one. Prince of Travel’s case is 85,000 versus 80,000, and it depends on which grid you have:

• On the Prince of Travel, Upgraded Points, and AwardWallet reading, 80,000 points at 20% cost CA$2,400, and 85,000 at 25% cost CA$2,390.63. Five thousand more points cost less.
• On Milesopedia’s grid, 80,000 is already 25% off, at CA$2,250, and that cliff is not there.

The same thing happens at the bottom of the Upgraded Points and AwardWallet bands. 14,000 points at full price cost CA$525. 15,000 points at 15% cost CA$478.13. On Milesopedia’s grid the first discount starts at 10,000, so 14,000 points are already 15% off (CA$446.25) and the cliff to look for is 9,000 at full price (CA$337.50) versus 10,000 at 15% (CA$318.75).

Read the total before you pay. Buying extra points you have no award for, only to reach 30%, is a stash. Thirty percent off still costs 2.625¢ CAD.

Transfer first. The cash price loses to a 1:1 move

For a U.S. reader, the comparison that matters is not “2.625¢ versus some blog’s valuation.” It is “cash for Aeroplan points” versus “points I can already move there.”

This site’s card catalog and guides already treat four transferable currencies as Aeroplan partners at 1:1:

• Chase Ultimate Rewards. The Sapphire Preferred guide states the Aeroplan ratio at 1:1. The catalog lists Air Canada (Aeroplan) with no other ratio. AwardWallet’s transfer table prints Chase at 1,000:1,000.
• Amex Membership Rewards. The catalog lists Air Canada (Aeroplan) and marks JetBlue at 1.25:1, which is the partner with a published exception. AwardWallet prints Amex (U.S.) at 1,000:1,000.
• Capital One miles. The catalog lists Air Canada with no ratio, and marks EVA Air at 2:1.5 and JetBlue at 2:1.2. The Bilt vs Venture X comparison lists Air Canada Aeroplan on the Capital One side. AwardWallet prints Capital One at 100:100.
• Bilt Rewards. That same comparison lists Air Canada Aeroplan among Bilt’s 1:1 airline partners. The catalog lists Air Canada with no ratio. AwardWallet prints Bilt at 1,000:1,000.

MaxPoints planning ranges already used on this site put a transferable point at about 1.5¢. That is a planning figure, not a rate Chase, Amex, Capital One, or Bilt pays. It is the right figure for this decision, because an Aeroplan point you transfer is a point you could have used somewhere else.

The best USD price any of these writeups prints for a purchased point is about 1.85¢, and only at 30% off. 1.85¢ is more than 1.5¢. Every worse tier is a worse purchase. A 20% purchase is 3.00¢ CAD, which is about $1,270 for 60,000 points at the rate implied by Upgraded Points’ conversion of CA$6,562.50 into $4,625, and about $1,277 at AwardWallet’s $1.41.

AwardWallet also prints an “optimal rate” line that prices 60,000 points at about $1,110, which is 60,000 times 1.85¢. That is the top-tier unit price applied to an amount their own table prices at 20%. A 60,000-point purchase is CA$1,800 on every grid checked here. Do not use $1,110 unless the screen shows 30% on that purchase. No published grid does.

There is no card transfer bonus to Aeroplan on the transfer bonuses page. Transferring at the ordinary 1:1 still beats paying about 1.85¢ USD, and it beats 3.00¢ CAD by more.

Hotel points are a different pile. Marriott Bonvoy converts to Aeroplan at 3:1, and Aeroplan is paying 15% on those conversions through October 31. A 60,000-point Bonvoy chunk is not 60,000 Aeroplan points. The Marriott Bonvoy to Aeroplan piece is the one to read if the balance is Bonvoy. Chase already transfers to Aeroplan at 1:1, so routing Ultimate Rewards through Marriott first returns fewer miles than the direct transfer. That arithmetic is in the same piece.

Points.com purchases generally do not code as airfare. Put the charge on a card where the spending itself is useful. Which card should earn the next point is the calculator’s question.

What the points are for, if the seat exists

Search the award before a dollar goes to Points.com. Air Canada does not owe you a price from a chart. This site’s Sapphire Reserve guide uses 60,000 Aeroplan points for one-way partner business between the U.S. and Europe under 4,000 miles, and 75,000 for 4,001–6,000 miles. The Marriott to Aeroplan piece records Air Canada’s June 1, 2026 chart notice on the longer bands: North America–Pacific business at 85,000 on the 5,001–7,000 mile band, and partner business at 102,500 on the 7,501–11,000 mile band. Those are chart cells. If the flight is not in your search at that price, the cell is a number on a page.

Here is the purchase test on the two amounts every grid prices the same way.

60,000 points at 20% is CA$1,800, before tax and before the taxes the award still charges. Transferring 60,000 points costs no cash. Buying them is the move when you do not hold 60,000 transferable points, the seat is actually there, and the cash fare for the trip you would pay for is higher than CA$1,800 plus those award taxes. The Sapphire Reserve guide’s illustration for this band is a cash fare “regularly $3,000+” one way. That illustration is not your fare. A one-way award against a round-trip cash price overstates the savings if you were only going to buy one way.

75,000 points at 20% is CA$2,250. Same test, higher receipt.

85,000 points at 25% is CA$2,390.63 wherever the screen matches the grids that print 85,000 as 25% off. That part is shared. 102,500 is not. Milesopedia’s 30% band starts at 100,000, so 102,500 would be 2.625¢, or CA$2,690.63. Prince of Travel and Upgraded Points still have 25% off through 109,000, which prices 102,500 at 2.8125¢, or CA$2,882.81. AwardWallet’s printed 25% band stops at 100,000 and its 30% band starts at 110,000, so 102,500 is in a gap. Read the screen.

A round trip at 60,000 each way is 120,000 points. That amount is inside the 30% band on every published grid, at CA$3,150. Two separate 60,000-point purchases at 20% would be CA$3,600. One purchase is the cheaper of those two receipts. Transferring 120,000 points still beats CA$3,150, at about $1,800 of transferable points on the 1.5¢ planning figure, against about $2,220 if you apply 1.85¢ to the whole 120,000.

Two valuations from the coverage, and they point at the same decision. Milesopedia and Prince of Travel value an Aeroplan point at about 2¢ CAD. The best price in this sale is 2.625¢ CAD, which is above that, so both call it a top-up. Upgraded Points values Aeroplan at 1.5¢ and puts the sale at about 1.85¢, which is also above their number. AwardWallet’s user redemptions average 1.86¢, with the cabin split doing the useful work: short-haul economy 1.21¢, long-haul economy and premium economy 1.27¢, short-haul business and first 2.56¢, long-haul business and first 2.63¢. Economy averages sit under the purchase price. Long-haul business and first sit above the top tier. Averages are not your fare.

Prior rounds were cheaper, on Prince of Travel’s history table. September 11–25, 2026 was up to 100% more points, about 1.88¢ CAD. July 20–August 12, 2026 was up to 110% more points, about 1.79¢ CAD. AwardWallet’s USD column for those same end dates is 1.35¢ and 1.27¢. This round’s roughly 1.85¢ USD is a step up from both. Milesopedia’s history matches the 1.88¢ and 1.79¢ CAD figures and adds that the June 30, 2026 round was the same 30% discount at 2.625¢. Prince of Travel’s reading of the older rows is that a 30%-off sale has been followed by a bonus-style sale that came in under 2¢ CAD. That is a reason to avoid a speculative buy. It is not a promise that the next sale arrives before your seat does.

Purchased points do not help you qualify for status. They take hours to post, not seconds. Buy while the award is there, with enough slack to ticket after the points show up.

When to buy

Pay Points.com only when all of these are true:

1. The award is already in your Aeroplan search. A specific flight, cabin, date, points price, and tax line. The 60,000 and 75,000 figures are chart cells from this site’s guides. They are not the price until your search says so.
2. You have read your tier, not a headline. Log in and read the total. A 100,000-point purchase is CA$2,625 on Milesopedia’s grid and CA$2,812.50 on the other three. The screen’s total is the total.
3. The cash fare loses. Cash price of the trip you would actually buy, minus award taxes, is greater than the Points.com total, including whatever sales tax the receipt adds.
4. Chase, Amex, Capital One, and Bilt do not already cover it. Transfer at 1:1 first. A Bonvoy balance is the hotel-points case, and it belongs in the Marriott to Aeroplan comparison, not in this receipt. Buy the gap that is left.
5. The purchase is not stuck on the wrong side of a cliff. On the Upgraded Points and AwardWallet bands, 15,000 points cost less than 14,000. On Prince of Travel’s thresholds, 85,000 can cost less than 80,000. On Milesopedia’s grid those two cliffs are in different places. Do not buy a no-discount handful when the next band on your screen is cheaper in total. Do not buy 110,000 points to “get 30%” when the award needs 60,000.
6. The cap still has room. 250,000 points in this transaction. 1,000,000 purchased this calendar year. The gift cap is a separate 500,000 if you are buying for someone else.
7. The seat can survive the posting delay. The points typically arrive within 72 hours. The discount follows a purchase completed by 11:59 p.m. PT on October 13. The seat does not have to wait with you.

The clean yes: you are short a known number of points for an award you have already priced, your screen shows a real discount on the purchase that covers the gap, none of the four transferable balances can fill it, and the cash fare is higher than the receipt.

When to leave the cash alone

Skip the sale if any of these are true:

• Nothing is bookable. Buying 250,000 points on October 13 because a headline says 30% off, then searching an empty calendar, is the expensive version of this promo. CA$6,562.50 is the top of the transaction cap, at 2.625¢, which is still above a 2¢ CAD valuation.
• You hold the transferable points. 1:1 beats every price in this sale, including 1.85¢ USD. There is no Aeroplan transfer bonus on the transfer bonuses page to wait for.
• The award is economy. AwardWallet’s economy averages (1.21¢ and 1.27¢) do not clear 1.85¢, let alone a 20% purchase near 2.1¢ USD. A specific economy fare can. Most will not.
• Your screen is the no-discount band and the next threshold on that same screen costs less for more points. Paying 3.75¢ CAD to avoid buying 1,000 more points is the bad version of a top-up.
• You are buying status. Purchased points do not count toward Aeroplan elite status.
• You would need the points inside the posting window and the seat is fragile. Seventy-two hours is the published “typically.” A seat that disappears overnight does not come back because the points are in transit.
• You are a Canadian billing address and the tax line breaks the comparison. GST/HST comes out of the same savings the 30% was supposed to create. Run the receipt, not the pre-tax cent.

The verdict

Buy Aeroplan points in this window only for an award you can already see, at the discount your own account shows, after Chase, Amex, Capital One, and Bilt have had a chance to cover the gap for less.

The clock is September 28, 2026 through 11:59 p.m. PT on October 13, 2026. The sale takes up to 30% off the price. It does not add bonus points. The list price underneath the discount is 3.75¢ CAD. At 30% off, that is 2.625¢ CAD, about 1.85¢ USD in the Upgraded Points and AwardWallet conversions. At 20% off, the price every published grid assigns to a 60,000-point purchase, it is 3.00¢ CAD, or CA$1,800.

The grids disagree on where each band starts. Milesopedia discounts from 10,000 points and starts 30% at 100,000. Prince of Travel, Upgraded Points, and AwardWallet start the first discount at 15,000 and start 30% at 110,000. A 100,000-point purchase is CA$2,625 or CA$2,812.50 depending on which of those screens you have. Check the buy-points page. The annual cap is 1,000,000 points purchased. The transaction cap on this round is 250,000. Purchased points do not count toward status. They are non-refundable, and they typically take up to 72 hours to post.

60,000 Chase, Amex, Capital One, or Bilt points become 60,000 Aeroplan points at no cash cost. Buying those 60,000 points costs CA$1,800. Transfer first. Buy the rest only when the cash fare loses.

Find the seat. Read the taxes. Read your tier. Then buy exactly the points that award requires.

Before you earn the next point toward an Aeroplan award, run your spending through the credit card rewards calculator.

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Disclaimer / sources

This article reflects the Air Canada Aeroplan buy-points discount reported for September 28 through October 13, 2026. Checked October 6, 2026.

• Window, list price, and the Milesopedia grid are from Milesopedia’s September 29, 2026 update: September 28 through October 13, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time; members in good standing who log in after September 28 at 4:31 a.m. Eastern Time; refresh if the discount does not show; base price 3.75¢; under 10,000 none; 10,000–19,000 at 15% (3.19¢); 20,000–75,000 at 20% (3.00¢); 80,000–95,000 at 25% (2.81¢); 100,000–250,000 at 30% (2.625¢). Milesopedia’s 100,000-point example is CA$2,625 instead of CA$3,750. The table as printed skips 76,000–79,000 and 96,000–99,000. Milesopedia values an Aeroplan point at 2 cents and says this round is a top-up for a specific booking. Its recent-round list: June 30, 2026 at 30% off (2.625¢); August 12, 2026 up to 110% (1.79¢); September 25, 2026 up to 100% (1.88¢, or 2.03¢ on an up-to-85% offer). The per-transaction limit during this promotion is 250,000, versus 500,000 in the September bonus round. The calendar-year cap is 1,000,000 purchased, and 500,000 gifted. Points typically arrive within 72 hours, often sooner.
• Prince of Travel, September 24, 2026, with a history table that dates this round September 28–October 13: a straight discount, not bonus points; base 3.75¢ CAD; 30% off to 2.63¢ CAD; 25% to 2.81¢; 20% to 3.00¢; 15% to 3.19¢. Thresholds as printed: 15,000 or more at 15%, 25,000 or more at 20%, 85,000 or more at 25%, 110,000 or more up to the 250,000 transaction limit at 30%. The 85,000-versus-80,000 cliff (about $2,391 versus $2,400) and the $75 step from 100,000 to 110,000 are Prince of Travel’s, and both require 30% to start at 110,000 rather than 100,000. Aeroplan targets these offers. Points generally post within 72 hours. Calendar-year cap 1,000,000 purchased and 500,000 gifted. A Canadian billing address adds GST/HST; Prince of Travel says a U.S. card with a U.S. billing address does not. Points.com does not earn an Air Canada or travel category. Prince of Travel values Aeroplan at 2.0¢ CAD. History table: September 11–25, 2026, up to 100% more points at 1.88¢ CAD; July 20–August 12, 2026, up to 110% at 1.79¢ CAD. The “followed within a month by a bonus-style sale under 2¢” line is Prince of Travel’s reading of that table, not a schedule.
• Upgraded Points, updated September 28, 2026: through October 13, 2026; targeted; up to 14,000 no discount; 15,000–24,000 at 15%; 25,000–84,000 at 20%; 85,000–109,000 at 25%; 110,000 or more at 30% (1.85¢). Transaction cap 250,000. CA$6,562.50 for 250,000 points is converted to $4,625, which is 1.85¢ USD. Upgraded Points values Aeroplan points at 1.5¢. The 1.85¢ price they print sits above that valuation. Points.com processes the sale, so it does not code as airfare.
• AwardWallet, September 28, 2026: ends 11:59 p.m. PT on October 13, 2026; targeted, and some members may see a different discount or a bonus; Chase Aeroplan cardholders are sometimes targeted for an extra offer. Minimum 2,000 points at no discount. Bands as printed: 2,000–14,000 none (3.75¢ CAD, 2.65¢ USD); 15,000–24,000 at 15% (3.19¢ CAD, 2.25¢ USD); 25,000–80,000 at 20% (3¢ CAD, 2.12¢ USD); 85,000–100,000 at 25% (2.82¢ CAD, 1.99¢ USD); 110,000–250,000 at 30% (2.63¢ CAD, 1.85¢ USD). The bullets skip 81,000–84,000 and 101,000–109,000. Caps: 250,000 per transaction and 1,000,000 per calendar year, and 500,000 gifted. Purchased points are non-refundable and non-reversible, do not count toward elite status, and typically credit within 72 hours. AwardWallet states $1 USD = $1.41 CAD. 2.625 ÷ 1.41 is about 1.86¢, which is why this article treats 1.85¢ as their published rounding rather than as a second CAD price. Their 250,000-point USD figure is $4,635, and their 110,000-point figure is $2,040 on CA$2,887.50. The “$1,110 optimal rate” for 60,000 points is 60,000 × 1.85¢. Their tier table prices 60,000 at 20%, which is CA$1,800 (they also print $1,271.48 USD for that 20% purchase). User-redemption averages in that article: 1.86¢ overall, 1.21¢ short-haul economy, 1.27¢ long-haul economy and premium economy, 2.56¢ short-haul business and first, 2.63¢ long-haul business and first. AwardWallet’s history column for the September 25, 2026 100% bonus is 1.35¢ USD, and for the August 12, 2026 110% bonus is 1.27¢ USD.
• Arithmetic. 3.75 × 0.85 = 3.1875; × 0.80 = 3.00; × 0.75 = 2.8125; × 0.70 = 2.625. CA$1,800 is 60,000 × 3.00¢. CA$2,250 is 75,000 × 3.00¢. CA$2,400 is 80,000 × 3.00¢. CA$2,250 is also 80,000 × 2.8125¢. CA$2,390.63 is 85,000 × 2.8125¢. CA$2,625 is 100,000 × 2.625¢. CA$3,750 is 100,000 × 3.75¢. CA$2,812.50 is 100,000 × 2.8125¢. CA$2,887.50 is 110,000 × 2.625¢. CA$3,150 is 120,000 × 2.625¢. CA$6,562.50 is 250,000 × 2.625¢. CA$525 is 14,000 × 3.75¢. CA$478.13 is 15,000 × 3.1875¢, rounded to the cent. CA$446.25 is 14,000 × 3.1875¢. CA$337.50 is 9,000 × 3.75¢. CA$318.75 is 10,000 × 3.1875¢. CA$2,690.63 is 102,500 × 2.625¢. CA$2,882.81 is 102,500 × 2.8125¢. About $1,270 is CA$1,800 ÷ (6,562.50 / 4,625). About $1,277 is CA$1,800 / 1.41. $2,035 is 110,000 × 1.85¢. $2,220 is 120,000 × 1.85¢. $900, $1,650, and $1,800 are 60,000, 110,000, and 120,000 times 1.5¢.
• Transfers. Chase to Aeroplan at 1:1 is how this site’s Sapphire Preferred guide describes the partner. Amex, Capital One, and Bilt list Air Canada in the card catalog, with the non-1:1 exceptions named above (Amex JetBlue 1.25:1; Capital One EVA 2:1.5 and JetBlue 2:1.2; Bilt’s airline list has no ratio exception). The Bilt vs Venture X article lists Air Canada Aeroplan at 1:1 for both programs. AwardWallet’s transfer table prints Amex U.S. 1,000:1,000, Capital One 100:100, Chase 1,000:1,000, and Bilt 1,000:1,000. About 1.5¢ per transferable point is a MaxPoints planning estimate already used on this site. The transfer bonuses data, checked October 6, 2026, has no Aeroplan row.
• Award bands. 60,000 points for partner business under 4,000 miles, and 75,000 for 4,001–6,000 miles, are the figures in MaxPoints’ Sapphire Reserve guide, which also illustrates cash fares “regularly $3,000+” for the shorter band. Air Canada’s June 1, 2026 chart figures for the Pacific and long partner bands are cited as in the Marriott Bonvoy to Aeroplan article on this site: 85,000 and 102,500. Chart cells are not availability.
• Related MaxPoints pieces: Sapphire Preferred guide, Sapphire Reserve guide, Bilt vs Venture X, Marriott Bonvoy to Aeroplan, transfer bonuses.

Offers can end early. Confirm the discount, the tax, the cap, and the award price on your own Aeroplan account before you pay.