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| - I had to update this. I just looked into flights to Hong Kong. Air Canabis offers a flight that changes planes in *Frankfurt* with a 10 hour layover making the best travel time over 30 hours using Aeroplan.
But if you choose the "Classic Plus" option, you can get a direct flight that takes 15 hours. The catch: it costs 181,000 points instead of 75,000 points. So I need to spend $181,000 on my Aerogold Visa to get an Aeroplan ticket for a direct flight. The Visa Merchant charge of 2.5 percent on average adds up to $4,500
Alternatively, I can buy a non-stop ticket for cash on Cathay Pacific for about $1900, or on Air Canada for $2,600.
Incidentally, if you use Avion Visa, a non-stop flight is 150,000 points, 30,000 less than Aeroplan. No blackouts and no games. Time to switch all of my corporate purchases to the Avion card and let the Aerogold Visa collect dust...
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