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Aeroplan Mile Matching Week is Happening Now!

Aeroplan Mile Matching Week is Happening Now!
This post is in partnership with the Air Canada Foundation. All thoughts and opinions are our own.
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There is no time like the present to donate your Aeroplan Miles to the Air Canada Foundation in support to its Hospital Transportation Program. From December 3-9, Aeroplan will match each mile donated, up to 500,000 miles, to help get sick children and a parent travel for needed medical care only available away from home, doubling the impact of the already amazing program. Their Aeroplan Mile Matching Week is always a huge success and it’s so easy to help contribute.

Aeroplan Mile Matching Week

If you take the time to read Auguste’s (pictured above) story on the Air Canada Foundation’s website, you will understand why donating helps make such a difference. 

Auguste was born without an auditory nerve and diagnosed as deaf. He needed to fly to Los Angeles five times in order to receive a revolutionary implant that required brain surgery and the Air Canada Foundation Hospital Transportation Program made it possible.

The Air Canada Foundation Hospital Transportation Program has benefited hundreds of children, and their parents, who have needed to get medical treatment that was not offered close to home since its introduction. On average, the Air Canada Foundation donates close to 10 million Aeroplan Miles to the 15 pediatric hospitals across Canada yearly and the Aeroplan program has brought in over 1 billion miles since it was first started in 2006.

Travelling by air allows kids to get to and from treatment quickly and back to the things that matter like family, school and their regular routine. It takes away stress for families that are already facing so much, by taking away the worry about “how we’re going to get to treatment?”.

Anne-Josee Laquerre, Director, Social Purpose and Sustainability, Aeroplan said: “Each and every mile donated to the Air Canada Foundation has the power to significantly impact the lives of children and their family” and it is such a simple thing to do if you are an Aeroplan Miles Member. 

To donate your Aeroplan Miles, please visit aircanada.com/Foundation and select the “Donate” button located on the top banner or visit the Aeroplan Donation Program, Air Canada Foundation page here.   

Another way to support the Hospital Transportation Program is to automatically donate two percent of all miles accumulated on a monthly basis to the Air Canada Foundation by simply updating the donation opt-in on your profile page on aeroplan.com.

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Aneta Alaei
Aneta Alaei

Aneta is a Toronto-based mom of four that loves a good meal, great company, and learning something new. In her free time, you can find her trying to keep yet another plant alive.

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16 Comments

  1. John C
    December 6, 2018 / 5:43 pm

    This is a great cause for children.

  2. Calvin
    December 6, 2018 / 7:37 pm

    Lovely, aeoroplan has improved past few years

  3. Alayne Langford
    December 6, 2018 / 8:15 pm

    I didn’t know about this and I have quite a few miles to burn! Thanks Aneta!! 🙂

  5. Wanda Tracey
    December 7, 2018 / 3:21 pm

    I didn’t know that Air Canada Foundation donates close to 10 million Aeroplan Miles to the 15 pediatric hospitals across Canada. That’s awesome and I will be donating mine to them. Thank you.

  6. AD
    December 7, 2018 / 7:53 pm

    Good for Air Canada and Aeroplan for doing this. Such a good cause!

  7. Jared Denison
    December 7, 2018 / 11:13 pm

    Any cause that helps children, is awesome in my books.

  8. Aneta Alaei
    Author
    December 7, 2018 / 11:33 pm

    I agree!

  9. Chris MacDonald
    December 8, 2018 / 6:47 am

    I was totally unaware of this great opportunity. They need to promote it better!

  10. LIsaM
    December 8, 2018 / 11:45 am

    I didn’t know you could do that. Very nifty

  11. Tammi L.
    December 9, 2018 / 10:53 pm

    I love this but because I collect airmiles I very seldom get aeroplan and then they keep expiring the ones I do have. I thought that wasn’t even allowed anymore!

  12. Nate
    December 13, 2018 / 8:59 pm

    very good cause, thanks for sharing

  13. Debbie White-Beattie
    December 23, 2018 / 3:06 am

    I haven’t started collecting Aeroplan Miles but I probably should

  14. Jennifer Wilson
    December 24, 2018 / 5:03 pm

    Way to go Aeroplan!

  15. Denise M
    December 25, 2018 / 12:40 pm

    Thanks for introducing me to this cause!

  16. kristen visser
    January 14, 2019 / 11:15 am

    awe!! I had no idea about this! i would love to donate my air miles! i only use them here and there on groceries anyways. what a fabulous program