Aeroplan re-cut the partner column of its award chart
Air Canada's 2026-04 Flight Reward Chart raised the fixed 'all other partners' prices and left its own dynamic floors alone. Delhi–Singapore business goes 60,000 to 75,000 points, up 25%; India–Europe business got cheaper on short bands and dearer on long ones.
Air Canada published a new edition of its Flight Reward Chart, labelled 2026-04, and put the price rise entirely in one column.
Every table in that chart prints two rows per distance band. The first is “Air Canada and/or Select Partners” — a dynamic “starting at” floor covering Air Canada’s own metal plus United, Emirates, flydubai, Etihad and a handful of Canadian regionals. The second is “All other partners”: one fixed number, the only price Aeroplan actually commits to, and the one that governs every Star Alliance seat an Indian collector is realistically booking.
The floors did not move. The fixed cells did.
What it costs now
The Atlantic-to-Pacific table is the one that matters most from India — it covers every corridor from the subcontinent into East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
| Distance flown | Business before | Business after |
|---|---|---|
| 0–2,500 mi | 40,000 | 47,500 |
| 2,501–5,000 mi | 60,000 | 75,000 |
| 5,001–7,000 mi | 80,000 | 92,500 |
| 7,001+ mi | 110,000 | 130,000 |
Bengaluru or Mumbai to Singapore sits in the first band: 40,000 points to 47,500, up 19%. Delhi to Singapore is roughly 2,570 flown miles, one band further out, and goes 60,000 to 75,000 — a 25% increase, the largest single move on any corridor Indian cards can fund. Delhi to Tokyo makes the same jump. Economy in the 5,001–7,000-mile band, which is where India to Sydney and India to Auckland land once you route through a Star hub, goes 50,000 to 60,000, and business in that band goes 80,000 to 92,500.
India to Europe and the Gulf, priced off the Within Atlantic table, is genuinely mixed. Business got cheaper on the three short bands and dearer on the two long ones:
- Delhi–Dubai business 25,000 → 22,500; economy 12,500 → 15,000
- Delhi–Frankfurt business 45,000 → 40,000; economy 25,000 → 30,000
- Delhi–London business 60,000 → 70,000; economy 35,500 → 42,500
India to North America is the quietest table of the three. Delhi–New York business is unchanged at 90,000 and economy goes 55,000 to 60,000 — but First rises from 130,000 to 150,000 in that band, and from 140,000 to 165,000 on anything beyond 8,000 flown miles.
Within North America was not touched at all. A 6,000-point short hop is still a 6,000-point short hop.
Why this lands on Indian wallets
Aeroplan is not a distant foreign programme here. SBI Card Travel Credits transfer into it at 1:1, which is the best Star Alliance ratio any Indian bank currency gets, and HDFC’s SmartBuy grid reaches it too. Aeroplan is also the programme that charges no carrier-imposed fuel surcharge on partner awards — just a flat CA$39 partner booking fee — which is why it beats Miles & More and Maharaja Club on the same Lufthansa or Air India metal even after a 25% rise.
That advantage survives this chart. A 75,000-point Delhi–Singapore business seat with no surcharge is still a better deal than most of what else is reachable from an Indian card. It is simply 15,000 points worse than it was.
How we dated it
Air Canada published no dated notice we can reach, so the effective day comes from the documents. The 2026-04 chart carries an InDesign creation and modification timestamp of 25 June 2026. A Wayback Machine capture of the identical URL on 8 June 2026 still serves the previous 2026-02 edition, whose own timestamp is 19 February 2026 and whose tables carry every one of the old numbers above. So the new prices existed from 25 June and not before 8 June, and the increase was first written up publicly in late April.
The board’s Aeroplan prices already read the new chart — all of them were re-checked against it on 1 August 2026. What was missing was telling you.