Airmiles Armchair Chatter

I'm struggling, I have a Disney trip planned for spring 2019 and I really don't want to pay for tickets.

If I cash in for 5-day non Canadian airmiles tickets now, they expire December 2018, worst case under the current conditions, I'd pay $20 gate fee plus $x ticket price increase. Correct???? I worked it out to $562+ vs $455 Disney's current Canadian tickets. Such a bad price but I wouldn't have too pay much.

Anyone think airmiles will come out with Canadian tickets? Sigh, wishful thinking.
I've been thinking on this since noon. I think AM will offer a few CAN tickets but with the changes coming it won't be a lot of tickets. I'm going to hang on until October 15th and hope that AM has the next batch, either CAN or just the 2019 exp. If not....I'm not sure what I will do.
 
I've been thinking on this since noon. I think AM will offer a few CAN tickets but with the changes coming it won't be a lot of tickets. I'm going to hang on until October 15th and hope that AM has the next batch, either CAN or just the 2019 exp. If not....I'm not sure what I will do.

Sounds like a good plan.

I assume airmiles is trying to get rid of the current tickets but they expire soon and are way overpriced for Canadians going before end of 2018. So I doubt they will move very quickly, other than people like me panicking lol.
 
I dropped into my CAA today to see about getting some one day park tickets,,,all have the expiry date of 2019.
I have my 2019 tickets already but was hoping to maybe stockpile a couple of single day passes,,:sad1: I guess not.
I have to rethink this.:magnify:

Hugs Mel
 
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I had no idea that we could still use the air mile tickets even though they say they expire end of December 2018. We have a trip booked for end of January beginning of February. I am just 200 miles short of getting a 7-Day child Park ticket.

I could have sworn that someone on this board recently got an air miles ticket and the expiry date was actually the end of 2019. I didn't want to take a chance and order a ticket and then that's like 5100 miles gone down the drain.
 
Ok
I checked and I have a one Day Peak Magic Kingdom ticket good for this coming Jan 2019 Trip.
AND a Non Expiry hopper ticket ,,, which I am going to save it till 2020.
I will go tonight and get a one day ticket to use this March Break 2019 for the ( Epcot Flower and Garden Festival) from CAA. :car:
After 2020 I am not sure,,by then maybe airmiles will have something half decent.
Dang Petro Canada is giving me a hard time transferring my petro points to CAA dollars.
Hugs Mel
 
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I had no idea that we could still use the air mile tickets even though they say they expire end of December 2018. We have a trip booked for end of January beginning of February. I am just 200 miles short of getting a 7-Day child Park ticket.

I could have sworn that someone on this board recently got an air miles ticket and the expiry date was actually the end of 2019. I didn't want to take a chance and order a ticket and then that's like 5100 miles gone down the drain.

I haven't read through the ticket thread lately but I do know that was the original announcement, expired tickets would be given a credit for the price paid. Last fall I bought a full price airmiles ticket and it expired Dec 2018 (upgraded it to ap) so I wouldn't be too surprised about the 2019 expiry date. I'm like you in that I need a guarantee.
 


Ok
I checked and I have a one Day Peak Magic Kingdom ticket good for this coming Jan Trip.
AND a Non Expiry hopper ticket ,,, which I am going to save it till 2020.
I will go tonight and get a one day ticket to use this March Break 2019 for the ( Epcot Flower and Garden Festival) from CAA. :car:
After 2020 I am not sure,,by then maybe airmiles will have something half decent.
Dang Petro Canada is giving me a hard time transferring my petro points to CAA dollars.
Hugs Mel

Ahhh, great use of petro points, if I'm reading this correctly your converting to buy your ticket???
 
Shell is offering a targeted email offer
check your email
each time you use cash airmiles for gas or in store you will get 20 bonus airmiles.
Until October 23, 2018, you'll get
20 Bonus Miles
every time you use AIR MILES Cash Miles
at the pump or in-store at participating
Shell locations.*
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Hugs Mel
 
Shell is offering a targeted email offer
check your email
each time you use cash airmiles for gas or in store you will get 20 bonus airmiles.
Until October 23, 2018, you'll get
20 Bonus Miles
every time you use AIR MILES Cash Miles
at the pump or in-store at participating
Shell locations.*
38287_Shell_AMC_logo_E.png
Hugs Mel

Wow, very nice, they sent me get 50 am for 4 in-store $5 purchases. No thanks, but I like yours.

In the "things not to do department", my husband used two different airmiles cards of ours and filled up premium gas, likely about 5L for the boat motor/lawnmower etc. but he scanned the airmiles card to get the 4 cents off summer GTA promo. Shell targeted offers on both cards now are for premium gas with the minimum 25L fill-up, totally useless as we fill the vehicles with regular.
 
Nothing too great at Sobeys... good thing I have the receipt coupon to get 100AM though. I wasn’t able to use mine this past weekend as I was stuck at home :( Finally did groceries on Monday only.
 
Nothing too great at Sobeys... good thing I have the receipt coupon to get 100AM though. I wasn’t able to use mine this past weekend as I was stuck at home :( Finally did groceries on Monday only.

I'm glad for the coupon this weekend too. I need to stock up! Everything I bought Friday that I had to toss needs to be replaced. At least I got the airmiles for that shopping trip. I've heard there is still some power flickering so I may just get more non-perishable type food this weekend and stuff that can last a bit without being in the fridge. It is apple season and they do ok on the counter. So we'll have some fruit at least! :)
 
I had no idea that we could still use the air mile tickets even though they say they expire end of December 2018. We have a trip booked for end of January beginning of February. I am just 200 miles short of getting a 7-Day child Park ticket.

I could have sworn that someone on this board recently got an air miles ticket and the expiry date was actually the end of 2019. I didn't want to take a chance and order a ticket and then that's like 5100 miles gone down the drain.
You wouldn't lose anything on the 2018 tickets. All that will happen is that you have to pay the difference from the 2018 price and the price at the time you use the tickets. Right at this moment no one knows how that will play out exactly because this is the first time it will happen. I would be willing to be that within the first few months of 2019 a lot of people, if not everyone, will get a pass on paying anything in addition for those tickets. WDW is not very good at rolling out these sorts of things. Example....the resort pay parking situation. That rolled out in March and people are still not being charged...myself included last month.
 
You wouldn't lose anything on the 2018 tickets. All that will happen is that you have to pay the difference from the 2018 price and the price at the time you use the tickets. Right at this moment no one knows how that will play out exactly because this is the first time it will happen. I would be willing to be that within the first few months of 2019 a lot of people, if not everyone, will get a pass on paying anything in addition for those tickets. WDW is not very good at rolling out these sorts of things. Example....the resort pay parking situation. That rolled out in March and people are still not being charged...myself included last month.

What I would be worried about is not loosing the value of the ticket but not being able to book FP+ with an expired ticket.
 
Nothing good in the flyer for Safeway really. I think I am going to take care of our very-short shopping list at the dreaded Walmart...
 
What I would be worried about is not loosing the value of the ticket but not being able to book FP+ with an expired ticket.
No one knows for absolute certainty right now but you should be fine to book FP as the ticket is still valid. It just be needs to be upgraded in a sense.
 
I just private msg'd Air Miles on FB asking what will happen to the WDW tickets once WDW's new ticketing system goes live. It will be interesting to see if they even know that it is happening or if they actually have a plan in place. I assume they would fall under the other third-party ticket sellers (i.e., Undercover Tourist). Doesn't UT already have a plan in place?

Back with an "answer" to this:

Hi Heather, thanks for your patience while we were looking into this for you. We have heard back from our contact who has confirmed that the changes you mentioned will not impact the current stock of Disney passes that we Offer as the passes we currently have, are valid until December 2018. If any changes are to be made, they would only affect any new stock we get for the new year. The terms and conditions will appear on the Reward page so if any changes are made to the 2019 passes, the information would be reflected in the details/terms and conditions on the Reward page on our Web site. I hope that answers your question about the Disney passes and recent Disney changes. ~ Kari
 

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