The Aeroplan Program was created in July 1984 by Air Canada as an incentive program for its frequent flyer customers.

When it was created in 1984, Aeroplan program's operations were fully integrated with those of Air Canada.

* Air Canada Aeroplan-All mileage in an account expires if the Aeroplan member has not accumulated or redeemed Aeroplan Miles for a period of 12 consecutive months.

Aeroplan is also used by Air Creebec, Canadian North, Calm Air, and First Air.

In 2002, Aeroplan was spun off as a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Canada.

In June 2005, Air Canada's parent company ACE Aviation Holdings sold 12. 5 % of Aeroplan for $ 250 million through an initial public offering creating the world's first publicly traded loyalty program-Aeroplan Income Fund.

As such the Aeroplan program is no longer under direct control of Air Canada.

Air Canada Status Miles are calculated on an annual basis ( January 1 to December 31 ) to determine Aeroplan Membership Status for the following benefit year ( March 1 to February 28 ).

* Air Canada Prestige: 25, 000 Aeroplan Status Miles or 25 Status Flight Segments

* Air Canada Elite: 35, 000 Aeroplan Status Miles or 50 Status Flight Segments

* Air Canada Super Elite: 100, 000 Aeroplan Status Miles or 95 Status Flight Segments

Earn Aeroplan Miles with Air Canada

On 28 June 2009, also due to the Alitalia merger, the partnerships with United Airlines ' Mileage Plus program and Air Canada's Aeroplan program ended.

The move gave enRoute cardholders access to the existing Diners Club network of 2. 1 million merchants at the time, while earning existing Diners Club Canada cardholders Aeroplan miles.

Aeroplan is a Montreal, Quebec, Canada based coalition loyalty program owned by Aimia (), a global loyalty management company.

In recent years, Aeroplan has evolved into a loyalty marketing program with retail partners such as: Esso, Home Hardware, Sobeys, Thrifty Foods, Nestle Canada and others.

This motion is the first procedural step before any such action can be instituted .” The company noted that “ petitioners ( are ) seek ( ing ) court permission to sue Aeroplan on behalf of program members in Canada to obtain reinstatement of expired miles, reimbursement of any amounts already expended by Aeroplan members to reinstate their expired miles, $ 50 in compensatory damages and an undetermined amount in exemplary damages on behalf of each class member, all in relation to changes made to the Aeroplan program concerning accumulation and expiry of Aeroplan Miles as announced Oct. 16th, 2006 .” But Aeroplan stressed that it “ is of the view that there are good grounds for opposing the motion for authorization and will vigorously defend any class action, should one be authorized by the court .” Neale said: “ I felt like they stole from me .” “ If the bank took my money like that, it would be theft.

Internally, Aeroplan has deployed the MicroStrategy platform for business intelligence reporting and analytics for its personnel to analyze member information, track purchasing patterns, identify profiles of loyal members, and align its loyalty program with members ’ preferences.

The motion was filed formally on behalf of Noella Neale of Port Coquitlam, B. C., a single mother whose 150, 000 points were annulled by Aeroplan because she hadn ’ t made a contribution or a redemption in her account for one year, a period during which she had fallen ill. Those points fell victim to Aeroplan ’ s rules, under which the company erases points in an account dormant for 12 months.

On August 3, 2009 the Quebec Superior Court granted authorization to launch a class-action lawsuit challenging Groupe Aeroplan Inc .’ s practice of cancelling points accumulated in its loyalty program.

Additionally, Aeroplan sponsors travel of the writers-in-residence to and from Dawson City ; individuals can donate their own miles to support the program through an Aeroplan Pooling Account.

On December 20, 2007, Aeroplan Income Fund acquired Loyalty Management Group, a loyalty marketing and customer driven insight and analysis business that owns and operates Nectar, the UK's leading coalition loyalty program.

On October 16, 2006 Aeroplan instituted a program to expire members miles due to account inactivity or for points aged more than seven years.

Initially created as an income trust, Aeroplan Income Fund converted to a public corporation on June 25, 2008 and subsequently changed its name to Groupe Aeroplan Inc. On October 5, 2011, Groupe Aeroplan Inc. changed its name to Aimia

When miles expire, Aeroplan offers to restore the miles for a fee of $ 30 plus $ 0. 01 per mile, which in some instances has resulted in charges of several thousand dollars for high mileage members.

In a statement, Aeroplan noted that “ no class action has yet been filed.

They belong to me, and ( Aeroplan ) has no right to take them away from me .”

Members have argued that Aeroplan had already been paid for the miles through the selling partner by virtue of the retail pricing and by fees charged for certain collector credit cards.

Loyalty Management Group was purchased by Groupe Aeroplan in 2009.

As Aeroplan refused to give the miles back, a class action lawsuit was undertaken by Montreal lawyer Owen Falquero of Merchant Law Group LLP.

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Groupe Aeroplan launched a separate Nectar programme in Italy in 2010.

Other notable businesses in this building are Aimia ( formerly Groupe Aeroplan ), which manages the Nectar loyalty card, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

" Svenska Aeroplan AB ( aktiebolag )" ( Swedish for " Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ") ( SAAB ) was founded in 1937 in Trollhättan, with the merger of SAAB and Linköping based ASJA the headquarters moved to Linköping.

In 1989, enRoute card became the first credit card to earn its cardholders Aeroplan miles with their purchases.

Many Aeroplan members collect miles via credit cards.

One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

In May 1984 Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, was detained and Sakharov began a hunger strike, demanding permission for his wife to travel to the United States for heart surgery.

The archipelago is subject to cyclical droughts ; a devastating drought began in 1968 and was broken only briefly in 1975, 1978, 1984, and 1986.

In 1984, when the first women began to be ordained to the office of evangelist – patriarch, the RLDS Church changed the title of the local Evangelist – Patriarchs to simply " evangelist ".

Software development for the GNU operating system began in January 1984, and the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was founded in October 1985.

Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer ; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 and earned his first England cap.

The thermoregulatory hypothesis ( first proposed by Darwin in 1871 and later developed by Dr. Peter Wheeler, 1984, 1985 ) suggests that a need for decreased body hair originated as a response to climate change that began approximately 3 million years ago.

* AM General Hummer H1 Assembly Plant, Mishawaka, Indiana – opened 1984 to build HMMWV ( HUMVEE ) and began production of the Hummer / H1 in 1992.

Later in 1984, while filming Breakin ', Marrow met Darlene Ortiz, who had been at the club in which the film was being shot, and the two began a relationship ; Ortiz was featured on the covers of Rhyme Pays and Power.

He made the organization's first public announcement in 1984, and began the membership sign-up at the first WinterStar Symposium in 1984.

The Police Academy movies that began in 1984 are frequently considered a modern day version of the Keystone Kops.

After graduation he began work on the very stylized crime drama, The Element of Crime ( Forbrydelsens element 1984 ), which won a technical award at the Cannes Film Festival.

This began to change in 1983 ; in 1984 Mozambique joined the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Trudeau began the night of his famous ' walk in the snow ' before announcing his retirement in 1984 by going to Judo with his sons.

Work on the CD-i began in 1984 and it was first publicly announced in 1986.

His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls.

Neil Peart began incorporating Simmons Drums | Simmons Electronic Drums beginning with Grace Under Pressure ( 1984 )

The Prince Andrew began his relationship with St Helena in 1984 with a visit to the island as a member of the armed forces.

The 1984 season began with a shock: its owner, Ray Kroc, died of heart disease on January 14.

Shooting began on 28 March 1984 and ended in May of that year.

After the Baht devaluation in 1984 and the Plaza Accord in 1985, although the Government sector continued to be in trouble in the first stage due to several fiscal constraints, the Thai private sector began to soar.

The political movement that began in 1984 as the decentralized Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) evolved into a more centralized structure by 1990, opening a national clearinghouse, and forming governing bodies, bylaws, and a platform under the name The Green Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ) and by 1990, simply, The Greens.

The prototypical multiuser environment along these lines, Unix, began to support fully graphical X terminals, i. e., devices running X server software, from about 1984.