The Barclays Arrival Premier card lets you transfer miles into a number of different airline loyalty programs and they have just added Air Canada’s Aeroplan as a new partner. Unfortunately you need to transfer 1.7 Premier miles to receive 1 Aeroplan mile. This is also the transfer rate for Japan Airline (JAL) miles, the rest of the airline partners transfer at a rate of 1.4 to 1 and are as follows:
- Aeromexico
- Air France/KLM Flying Blue
- China Eastern
- Etihad
- EVA Air
- Jet Airways
- Malaysia Airlines
- Qantas
Given this card has no sign up bonus and earns 2x miles on all purchases (really 1.174-1.42 airline miles) I don’t think it’s worth signing up for. If they did add a sign up bonus or improved the transfer rate that would change. Given that they have just added another transfer partner at the 1.7 rate it looks extremely unlikely they will improve the transfer rate unfortunately. Best we can hope for is a good sign up bonus, maybe in conjunction with the 60,000 mile bonus on the similarly named Arrival+? It’s also worth rembering that Air Canada will launch it’s own loyalty program to effectively replace Aeroplan in 2020.
Hat tip to DansDeals
