Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Donald - my hero]

Can i just say how much i love my hubby??? Wandered downstairs to start the kettle for some tea, grab some breakie and found this on the table with a little love note (NOT included cause, SAPPY ) He also had the receipt from Staples beside it with a concerned comment "i swiped my card but no miles, do we need to return this stuff?" That makes swipe 9 & 10!

 

[Disney Addicted]

Go to this website and enter your flight info. Note: the airlines can change your aircraft right up until flight time. Yes it will say MAX if your flight is on one.

https://www.seatguru.com/

I was going to book a connecting flight home to Ottawa from Toronto. Decided to give myself and extra hour, in case. Booked the flight. Yesterday I went to the site and noticed that the earlier flight was on a MAX 8.

Thanks. I checked both and neither say MAX. Just Boeing 737-800 and 737-700.

 

[marchingstar]

Can i just say how much i love my hubby??? Wandered downstairs to start the kettle for some tea, grab some breakie and found this on the table with a little love note (NOT included cause, SAPPY ) He also had the receipt from Staples beside it with a concerned comment "i swiped my card but no miles, do we need to return this stuff?" That makes swipe 9 & 10!
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aww—i’m a sucker for a sweet love note!

 

[kitntrip]

Agreed, I've had orders split into 2 shipments but I think this situation might be different because the payment is also being split? I've also had this happen and the invoice I got thru email showed 2 separate totals as well. Just not sure how agreeable airmiles would be if you need to chase down the miles and you get a rep who insists on seeing the receipt

Yeah, I used Amazon credit to pay so the whole $52 has been taken, so I'm not sure how it would work in this case?

 

[Donald - my hero]

Yeah, I used Amazon credit to pay so the whole $52 has been taken, so I'm not sure how it would work in this case?

In this case you should be fine! I thought you said the payment had been split as well as the shipment and that was what created the confusion for me (doesn't take much ) SO as long as your receipt shows it as one transaction even if the miles don't post properly you'll have no trouble chasing them down!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Not going to tag or quote everyone but wanted to pass on that the Boeing 800 MAX are now banned from Canadian airspace so once the planes that are currently flying land they will no longer be allowed to take off. I can imagine this will create a massive scheduling headache for all of the March Break travelers & i hope everyone manages to get home without too much trouble.

Heaven help all of the customer service reps at both Westjet and Air Canada over the next few days as people slowly realize they might be in a bit of a pickle!!! I know that when we're on holidays we don't pay much attention to the news and don't give any thought to our flight home until it's time to get to the airport. Since we always pay for seat selection when returning there's no need to do the 24 hr check-in and i think it was 5 years ago that they made some sweeping changes to the type of stuff allowed in carry-on and we ended up needing to gate-check one of our bags to avoid leaving things in MCO

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Hmm, my sister's family is headed to Orlando on Saturday via Air Canada. I'll make sure to pass this info along to her. Should they check in with their travel agent to see if anything needs to be re-booked?

 

[Donald - my hero]

Hmm, my sister's family is headed to Orlando on Saturday via Air Canada. I'll make sure to pass this info along to her. Should they check in with their travel agent to see if anything needs to be re-booked?

No they won't need to rebook, the airline will just need to be shuffling planes around .. here's the info from the Air Canada announcement and based on this I would say they'll be fine. If they booked with a travel agent you can bet that they are already working to get their clients set up

Air Canada's cancellation and rebooking policies are in place with full fee waiver for affected customers. We are working to rebook impacted customers as soon as possible but given the magnitude of our 737 MAX operations which on average carry nine to twelve thousand customers per day, customers can expect delays in rebooking and in reaching Air Canada call centres and we appreciate our customers' patience.

 

[Aladora]

Thanks. I checked both and neither say MAX. Just Boeing 737-800 and 737-700.

Not going to tag or quote everyone but wanted to pass on that the Boeing 800 MAX are now banned from Canadian airspace so once the planes that are currently flying land they will no longer be allowed to take off. I can imagine this will create a massive scheduling headache for all of the March Break travelers & i hope everyone manages to get home without too much trouble.

Heaven help all of the customer service reps at both Westjet and Air Canada over the next few days as people slowly realize they might be in a bit of a pickle!!! I know that when we're on holidays we don't pay much attention to the news and don't give any thought to our flight home until it's time to get to the airport. Since we always pay for seat selection when returning there's no need to do the 24 hr check-in and i think it was 5 years ago that they made some sweeping changes to the type of stuff allowed in carry-on and we ended up needing to gate-check one of our bags to avoid leaving things in MCO

We're flying YYJ-SEA-CUN on Delta in 6 days. I called the international customer service number, got through to a lovely woman in less than 2 minutes and she checked our flights and confirmed that while we are on a Boeing 737-800, it is not a Max 8.

We are flying back from LAX in August via Westjet but I would expect that this will all get resolved one way or another long before then!

 

[Disney Addicted]

My daughter's school's flight home from LAX is Friday afternoon with United. As far as I can tell their planes (connecting flight) are not the MAX but still, if United has any MAX planes they might be delayed with shuffling.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I was glad to see the Bonus spend 100 get 100 AM at Safeway for the weekend. I was getting a couple of trays of food for the daughter's shower on the weekend...so at least I'll get some bonus miles out of it! I'm pretty sure I can top it up to the 100.00 mark

 

[Disney Addicted]

My daughter is killing me! LOL She's been in Disneyland for over an hour and hasn't been on a single ride. She phoned just now and said she & her buddy were just walking around. They figured they'd do some rides after their Disney youth series workshop that starts at 2 pm. Argh... I remindered her the workshop is THREE hours long. They have 2 1/2 hours - go ride something! Go straight to Indiana Jones! OMG... someone has to pry me away from iCloud's find my phone.

Hey, iCloud's map and google maps can't agree on the same location for Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Caribbean. I think she just made it to Indiana.

 

[juniorbugman]

So Shell must be rewarding me for coming to visit them a couple of times a week. I just got this email from airmiles about earning bonus points when I use cash miles in store.
I really don't save my air miles for anything special so I will use my cash miles to buy my lottery tickets and earn bonus miles to boot and right now my swipes will count towards my total of 15.

Until April 10, 2019, you'll get
20 Bonus Miles
every time you use AIR MILES Cash Miles
at the pump or in-store at participating
Shell locations.*

 

[Aladora]

My daughter's school's flight home from LAX is Friday afternoon with United. As far as I can tell their planes (connecting flight) are not the MAX but still, if United has any MAX planes they might be delayed with shuffling.

Air travelers should be aware that the Federal Aviation Administration has temporarily grounded all Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the United States. Boeing has two main versions of the 737 Max — the Max 8 and Max 9.

According to the FAA, there are 387 Boeing 737 Max 8 and 737 Max 9 aircraft registered worldwide, and 74 registered in the U.S. Southwest Airlines has 34 of the 737 Max 8, American Airlines has 24 and United Airlines has 14 of the 737 Max 9.

 

[BLAZEY]

I have a decent threshold for Sobey's this week too 50AM/$100 spend, lowest with most miles I've seen I think. Last week it was 30AM/$110. And I'll be going all out on the coke deals - 50AM/3 cases or 30 for the slim cases - Coke zero cherry and vanilla showed up at Loblaws this week and I almost lost my mind, it's been a year I think since they were in Canada. I bought 3 yesterday, but refrained so I could wait for airmiles. And lo, there's an airmiles deal! I'll be stocking up

I'm another Coke Zero Cherry fan. It only comes out seasonally here in Canada (BOOO). I bought some when we were in the US and it lasted me 4 months. They Have they Coke Zero Vanilla too! Yes I will be stacking up. I don't drink it every day but those few cases need to last me 6-8 months!

 

[BLAZEY]

Air travelers should be aware that the Federal Aviation Administration has temporarily grounded all Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the United States. Boeing has two main versions of the 737 Max — the Max 8 and Max 9.

According to the FAA, there are 387 Boeing 737 Max 8 and 737 Max 9 aircraft registered worldwide, and 74 registered in the U.S. Southwest Airlines has 34 of the 737 Max 8, American Airlines has 24 and United Airlines has 14 of the 737 Max 9.

Canada has now ground them as well according to the CBC.

 

[cari12]

With the spend $100 get 100AM plus my MyOffers spend $100 get 50 AM plus the “Miss you” offer of spend $100 get 75 AM, looks like it’s worth my while to spend $100 at Safeway this weekend!

 

[BLAZEY]

We're flying YYJ-SEA-CUN on Delta in 6 days. I called the international customer service number, got through to a lovely woman in less than 2 minutes and she checked our flights and confirmed that while we are on a Boeing 737-800, it is not a Max 8.

We are flying back from LAX in August via Westjet but I would expect that this will all get resolved one way or another long before then!

My MIL texted me this morning letting me know that Delta doesn't have any of those MAX planes in their fleet. We too fly out in 6 days YYJ-SEA-SNA for our Disneyland Trip. Does you flight YYJ-SEA leave at "Stupid o'clock" in the morning on March 19?

 

[kitntrip]

In this case you should be fine! I thought you said the payment had been split as well as the shipment and that was what created the confusion for me (doesn't take much ) SO as long as your receipt shows it as one transaction even if the miles don't post properly you'll have no trouble chasing them down![/QUOTE

No, I was the confused one, I forgot I had used the credit and when I checked last night, I was like oohhh yeah, lol.

 

[Aladora]

My MIL texted me this morning letting me know that Delta doesn't have any of those MAX planes in their fleet. We too fly out in 6 days YYJ-SEA-SNA for our Disneyland Trip. Does you flight YYJ-SEA leave at "Stupid o'clock" in the morning on March 19?

Sure does....5:40am. Are you on the same flight?