Aeroplan's customer service is completely irresponsible. I redeemed 14, 00 points for a $100 gift card that never arrived. It was a Mother's Day gift but it hadn't arrived by July, though it took them about 2 days to take off the points. I followed their complaint procedure.

1) I reported the problem in the logged-in section of the website through a form. Received a form letter saying they couldn't resolve the issue and I had to phone, which I did from my residence in Japan. I got a system that kept me on hold and then a representative quickly transferred me to another system that dropped the connection.

2) Wrote another form complaint about not being able to get through, received the same form letter as above. It was obvious at this point that only machines were "reading" the letters. Waste of my time to write them.

3) Called again long distance form Japan to try to resolve the issue. Quickly told the representative that I and was calling from Japan and not to let the connection drop. She did get me through to a live customer service representative, who told me that she would resolve the issue within a week. But she wanted me to send copies of the emails to another address, attention to her name, right away, which I did.

4) I never received a a refund or even an acknowledgment of the emails. I wrote another letter to her at the same address and received no response. Did this person abscond with my refund, I'm starting to wonder?

I consider it egregious that Aeroplan, an aggressive marketer, sending me WEEKLY junk emails of advertising specials , doesn't actually have to provide a product that you "buy". And they don't have the time to respond to customer complaints, obviously. If anyone has an address for a director or higher-up that I could contact I would be grateful.

In the meantime I recommend that you don't try redeeming through Aeroplan for things other than flights.

Like many of the people who have expressed their loss of Aeroplan Ponts, I am in the same situation. Substantial number of points have been removed from account. I have been an aeroplan member since the early 90's and used them regularly, but was away on holidays and just learned July 31/07 that they canceled all my points.

I will try and call them August 1/07, but after reading other complaints of people on this site, I don't hold much hope for recovery.

Perhaps, we should all get together and start sending emails to our MP's and MLA's and have the government institute a fair consumers act that requires Air lines and Banks to comply with their offerings and not be able to arbitarily removed or cancel someones account.

Least of all, I and any of my employees will never fly on Air Canada again and I will be removing any accounts that I have with the CIBC bank.

Perhaps there is a lawyer amongst this group that might be interested in starting a class action against Air Canada and any bank that was a party to Aeroplan. It would be interesting to know if the Banks are going to be receiving a refund on any credit card payment they made to Aeroplan by their customers usage of their credit card.

Little wonder WestJet will be doing so well in the future.