RE:RE:Aimia in Talks with New partners/ braces for AC's departuremasfortuna wrote: And that plot thickens. "Multi-airline" is the key word here. Looking at possible suitors the first to come to mind is WEST JET. If they find a way to sign them on then this recovers to it's MAY level at the very least. IMHO
MAS
The question is can westjet hadle that much reward redemption? Last year Aeroplan members redeemed 1.9 Million flight rewards. That is alot of capacity for westjet as in 2016 PR they are stating 22M guest flew westjet.
Currently Aeroplan has 8% of all seats of AC... one would wonder the capacity for westjet to absorb that muc considering AC ASM is approx 5X WJ's.
That said if something with Westjet is in the talks and confirmed... i would jump on Westjet shares ASAP.
WJ lacking an aliance, you could see a multi airline deal. One speculation worth entertaining would be a multi level deal leveraging the club premier ownership. ie. WestJet and Aeromexico with access to skyteam. Domestic flight would all be WJ, and international would be redeemed on WJ + AM + Skyteam. Skyteam is not very popular in north america but it is very popular in Europe... it is the biggest competition to Star Aliance.
Of course before someone rips me a new one... this is all speculation with really just basic knowledge of airlines from my part.