Africa on points: Aeroplan, KrisFlyer and Atmos prices

Three charts that price Africa in different units

Aeroplan prices a trip between the United States and Africa from one table, North America to Atlantic, and Air Canada's notice about its June 1, 2026 changes says what the zones hold: "North America includes: Canada, United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. Atlantic includes: Europe, Africa, Middle East and India." So Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Cape Town share a table with Frankfurt and Delhi. Within the table, cabin and operating airline set the row, and distance sets the band. The chart's footnote says "Points required for flight rewards are based on the actual distance flown between origin and destination."

KrisFlyer's Star Alliance chart has no distances. It is a grid of twelve zones with a price for each pair, and Africa is split across two of them, "Middle East, North Africa" and "Central, South Africa". The chart is a single page, a grid with a few notes and a footer; the Wayback copies captured August 25, 2025, May 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 are each one page, and so is the 2022 chart. Under the grid, a box headed "ORIGIN/DESTINATION" lists the countries of every zone. It is a graphic, so a text extraction of the PDF misses it, and the lists quoted here are from the rendered chart image. "Middle East, North Africa" lists Egypt, and "Central, South Africa" lists Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and others, so the chart itself puts Cairo in the first zone and Johannesburg and Cape Town in the second. Kenya is in no zone box, so Nairobi is the one African city here that the chart does not place. Wherever its KrisFlyer price appears it is marked with an asterisk and priced as Central, South Africa, the zone that lists its neighbors Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda, which is this guide's assumption. If KrisFlyer places Kenya in the other zone, the figure drops from 63,000 to 60,000 in economy and from 122,500 to 114,500 in business. Treat the Nairobi figure as indicative until the booking screen shows the zone it assigns.

The chart prints round-trip prices and says "A one-way award requires half the number of miles shown here and is applicable to flights operated by Star Alliance member carriers." KrisFlyer's Terms and Conditions add that a one-way award at half price is "only applicable to the list of airlines as specified in the Star Alliance chart here, provided there is no stopover included in the one-way award itinerary." The chart's legend, a graphic below the grid, reads "ECONOMY CLASS", "BUSINESS CLASS" and "FIRST CLASS" beside three swatches that match the shading of the three figures in each cell, so the order of the figures is economy, business, first, as the chart prints it. The chart's starting price, 18,000 miles round trip, is the lowest first figure on the grid, and all 144 cells rise from left to right.

The file that KrisFlyer's Star Alliance page links to, named for the 1 November 2025 update, is served at its live address. On November 4, 2026 it was byte-identical to the Wayback Machine copies of that same file captured May 13 and October 16, 2026, and the chart's own footer reads "Effective 1 November 2025". The Aeroplan chart dated 2026-08 was checked at its published address on November 3, 2026. KrisFlyer's Terms and Conditions page, on that day, still links the 2022 chart in its one-way award clause, so the two KrisFlyer pages disagree on which edition is current; this guide uses the 2025 chart because its footer carries the later effective date.

Where the miles come from: ten airports, two formulas

A nonstop flight follows something close to the great circle, the shortest line over the surface of the Earth, so each of the 24 pairs here is measured that way between airport reference points. The latitude and longitude come from the OurAirports airport file, which OurAirports describes this way: "All data is released to the Public Domain, and comes with no guarantee of accuracy or fitness for use." With latitude φ and longitude λ in radians and R taken as 3,958.8 miles, the haversine formula gives a = sin²(Δφ/2) + cos φ1 × cos φ2 × sin²(Δλ/2) and a distance of 2R × arcsin(√a). Every pair was recomputed with the spherical law of cosines, R × arccos(sin φ1 sin φ2 + cos φ1 cos φ2 cos Δλ), and the two methods agree to within 0.05 mile on all 24.

Reference points are not runways, and an airline's routed distance is not a great circle, so a booking engine's figure can differ from these. Any pair within 30 miles of a line is therefore flagged as unresolved: the tables below still show the band that the great-circle figure gives, and the search screen decides. Two pairs fall inside that margin of an Aeroplan line, and both are named in the next section; two more sit within 30 miles of an Atmos line, and the Atmos section names them.

The six gateways are Newark, Washington Dulles, Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare, Houston Bush Intercontinental and Los Angeles. A reader starting from another airport can map onto them. New York JFK is 5,602.8 miles from Cairo, 7,355.3 from Nairobi, 7,973.2 from Johannesburg and 7,805.0 from Cape Town, and Boston is 5,418.4, 7,190.2, 7,862.9 and 7,729.1; both fall in the same Aeroplan bands as Newark for all four cities. Dallas Fort Worth falls in the same bands as Houston and San Francisco in the same bands as Los Angeles. Miami differs from Newark for two cities: Cairo, at 6,493.8 miles, is 493.8 past the 6,000-mile line, and Johannesburg, at 8,060.4, is 60.4 past the 8,000-mile line, where Newark is 6.1 inside it.

Twenty-four city pairs against the 4,000, 6,000 and 8,000 mile lines

The shortest pair, Newark to Cairo at 5,618.2 miles, is far above the 4,000-mile line, so none of the 24 reaches Aeroplan's cheapest band. The count by band is 2 pairs in the 4,001 to 6,000 band (Newark and Washington Dulles to Cairo), 9 in the 6,001 to 8,000 band and 13 at 8,001 miles and over. From Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, all twelve pairs to Nairobi, Johannesburg and Cape Town are past 8,000 miles, so the 8,000-mile line is a live question mainly for Newark and Washington Dulles.

The lines carry real money. Crossing 6,000 miles moves the all-other-partners economy price from 42,500 to 60,000 points, a step of 17,500, and business from 75,000 to 90,000. Crossing 8,000 miles moves economy from 60,000 to 75,000 (15,000 more) and business from 90,000 to 110,000 (20,000 more). Two pairs sit close enough to the 8,000 line that the program's own search decides which side they fall on: Newark to Johannesburg at 6.1 inside 8,000 and Chicago to Nairobi at 21.7 past 8,000. Atlanta to Nairobi, 48.0 past 8,000, and Washington Dulles to Cape Town, 68.5 inside 8,000, are firmer but not certain, and the search screen is the check.

Aeroplan's Atlantic table, band by band

The chart's Select Partners list reads, in full: "United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways, Canadian North, Calm Air, Bearskin Airlines and Provincial Airlines Ltd (PAL)." Air Canada and those partners share the first row of each band, which prints a "Starting at" price and a median. Every other partner airline gets the second row, one flat price per cabin, and that row prints no premium economy price at all, so the premium economy column belongs only to the first row.

In the two upper bands the flat economy price is 5,000 points above the select starting price (60,000 against 55,000, and 75,000 against 70,000); in the 4,001 to 6,000 band the two are equal at 42,500. Business is the same flat price on both rows in every band. The business medians sit far above the starting prices: 125,100 against a 90,000 start in the 6,001 to 8,000 band, and 141,900 against 110,000 at 8,001 miles and over, which is 35,100 and 31,900 points more. Economy medians are closer, equal to the start at 55,000 and 70,000 and 4,100 higher at 46,600 in the 4,001 to 6,000 band.

The chart says what the medians are: "Median amounts are based on member redemptions with Air Canada and select partners from January 2025 through December 2026," and "only displayed where available for flights either originating or ending in the North America zone." The window as printed runs past the chart's 2026-08 date, so the median is a label for a band's history, not a quote. The chart also warns that "'Starting at' amounts are not guaranteed with all carriers, nor do all carriers operate in all geographical zones for each cabin class," that a partner booking fee applies to rewards that include a partner airline, and that "Taxes and third-party charges may apply." A first class column exists on the chart and is left out here.

What the June 1, 2026 notice moved in these bands

Air Canada's notice says the changes "apply to redemption tickets booked or reissued on or after June 1, 2026," and lists only the cells that changed, with the old and new price. Every cell it lists for the three bands that Africa pairs reach went up, and the economy price moved by 2,500 to 5,000 points. The one cut listed for travel between North America and the Atlantic zone, economy in the 0 to 4,000 band from 35,000 to 32,500, is in a band none of these pairs reaches.

A price taken from before June for those cells is low by the amounts shown. A partner economy seat in the 6,001 to 8,000 band was 55,000 points before the change and is 60,000 now, and an Air Canada or select-partner business seat in that band was 85,000 and is 90,000. At 8,001 miles and over, business on the first row rose by 10,000, the largest step among the economy and business cells tabulated here (the notice also lists first class, left out of this guide).

KrisFlyer's two African zones and the 2022 chart they replace

From North America, Middle East, North Africa costs 120,000 / 229,000 / 274,000 round trip in economy, business and first, and Central, South Africa costs 126,000 / 245,000 / 368,000. One way is half: 60,000 / 114,500 / 137,000 and 63,000 / 122,500 / 184,000. Because the grid has one North America zone, all six gateways get the same KrisFlyer price for a given African city, and the comparison with Aeroplan comes down to how many miles each US city is from Africa.

KrisFlyer's earlier Star Alliance chart, footer "Effective 5 July 2022," is still served at an older web address and shows what the 2025 chart changed. Economy to Central, South Africa moved from 60,000 to 63,000 one way, and business from 111,000 to 122,500. Economy to Middle East, North Africa moved from 52,000 to 60,000, and business from 88,000 to 114,500. A KrisFlyer Star Alliance price quoted from before the 2025 chart will be lower than these; the 2025 chart is the one KrisFlyer's Star Alliance page links, while its Terms and Conditions page still links the 2022 chart.

A flat zone price has conditions that a distance chart does not. The chart says "The mileage indicated above are not applicable to itineraries with backtracking routes. For certain itineraries where the ticketed permitted mileage exceeds the maximum permitted mileage, a surcharge equivalent to the percentage in excess will be applied." The Terms and Conditions add "Backtracking is not permitted. Travel must be made via the most direct route." The chart, the Terms and Conditions, KrisFlyer's Star Alliance page and its redemption page all fall silent on the maximum permitted mileage for any zone pair, and the chart does not say what the surcharge is applied to, so a roundabout connection cannot be priced from the chart.

The economy route table: 24 prices from the two charts

The first price column is Aeroplan's flat price for every partner airline outside the select list; the second is the select starting price with the member median beside it; the third is KrisFlyer's one-way half of the round-trip chart. The last column compares the two flat prices, since a flat price and a starting-at price are different promises. An asterisk marks Nairobi's KrisFlyer figure as the Central, South Africa assumption.

Against Aeroplan's flat partner price, KrisFlyer is lower in 13 of the 24 pairs, ties in 4 and is higher in 7. The 4 ties are Cairo from Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, all at 60,000. Aeroplan wins Cairo from Newark and Washington Dulles by 17,500 points, and wins by 3,000 where a pair stays inside 8,000 miles and KrisFlyer prices it as Central, South Africa: Newark to Nairobi, Johannesburg and Cape Town, and Washington Dulles to Nairobi and Cape Town. The 13 KrisFlyer wins are exactly the 13 pairs at 8,001 miles and over, each by 12,000 points.

The select starting price changes the picture in the 6,001 to 8,000 band: 55,000 is below KrisFlyer's 60,000 and 63,000 in all 9 pairs there. At 8,001 miles and over, KrisFlyer is lower than both Aeroplan rows (63,000 against 70,000 and 75,000). A select-row price also needs a select-row airline with a seat, and the chart notes that starting prices are not guaranteed with all carriers.

Business class: Aeroplan below KrisFlyer on every pair

KrisFlyer's business price is 114,500 to Cairo and 122,500 to the other three cities, and Aeroplan's flat partner price is lower on all 24 pairs, by 12,500 to 39,500 points. The smallest gap, 12,500, applies to every Johannesburg, Cape Town or Nairobi pair in the top band (110,000 against 122,500); the largest, 39,500, to Cairo from Newark or Washington Dulles (75,000 against 114,500).

The Aeroplan median reverses part of that on the first row. A select-partner business seat has a median of 125,100 points in the 6,001 to 8,000 band, which is 2,600 above KrisFlyer's Central, South Africa price and 10,600 above its Middle East, North Africa price, and 141,900 in the top band, 19,400 above KrisFlyer. By definition half of the redemptions behind a median cost at least that much, so the flat row is the firmer comparison with KrisFlyer's flat zone price. In the 4,001 to 6,000 band the picture is the opposite: the median is 80,000, and KrisFlyer's 114,500 is 34,500 above it.

Atmos Rewards' Europe, Middle East, Africa chart on the same 24 pairs

Atmos Rewards prints a third chart that covers these trips. Its award charts page has a table headed "Europe, Middle East, Africa" with the note "Includes travel from US to EMEA and within EMEA." The copy used is a Wayback Machine capture of that page from May 18, 2026, and the chart may have changed since; the live page did not display its tables when the Atmos partner guide was checked on October 31, 2026. The chart does not label itself one way or round trip; it is treated as one way here, as the site's Atmos guide treats it, because the page states its fees and its stopover rule per way. It sets a starting price per cabin by distance band: 35,000 economy and 70,000 business for 5,001 to 7,000 miles, 42,500 and 85,000 for 7,001 to 10,000, and 55,000 and 110,000 for 10,000 and above. Premium economy and first class are printed and left out here. Atmos says the chart "represents general starting redemption rates by region and distance band" and that actual rates can vary with factors that include "limited availability at lower tiers." These are floors, closer in kind to Aeroplan's select starting price than to its fixed all-other-partners row.

On the same great-circle miles used above, 4 of the 24 pairs fall in the 5,001 to 7,000 band (Cairo from Newark, Washington Dulles, Atlanta and Chicago), 19 in the 7,001 to 10,000 band and 1 in the top band (Los Angeles to Johannesburg, 10,380.9 miles). Atmos's economy starting price is below Aeroplan's flat partner price on all 24 pairs, by 7,500 to 32,500 points, and below KrisFlyer's one-way price on all 24, by 8,000 to 25,000. In business the Atmos starting price is below Aeroplan's flat price on 23 pairs, by 5,000 to 25,000, and equal to it on one (Los Angeles to Johannesburg, 110,000), and it is 12,500 to 44,500 below KrisFlyer's.

Two things keep that from being a recommendation. First, a starting price is a floor: Atmos says "Some origin-destination pairs may not be available at the lowest published levels, even with the same distance band," so the 35,000 to 55,000 range is the lowest the chart prints, not a price any of these pairs is shown to cost. Second, the chart prints no airline and no route, and this guide does not establish which Atmos partner, if any, flies any of the 24 pairs with space at the starting level. Atmos adds a $12.50 nonrefundable fee per person each way on itineraries with a partner segment. The chart does not say how it counts distance for a connecting itinerary, and two pairs sit near a line on the great-circle measure: Houston to Cairo, 5.3 miles past 7,000 (35,000 economy if Atmos counts it under the line, 42,500 if over), and Los Angeles to Cape Town, 8.0 miles under 10,000 (55,000 if Atmos counts it over). On the asterisked Nairobi rows, the gap to KrisFlyer is 3,000 smaller if KrisFlyer places Kenya in the other zone.

Three trips that change band when they connect

Aeroplan's policy allows "Flight Reward itineraries built in a circuitous manner" as long as "the cumulative flown distance between the origin and destination does not exceed twice the non-stop distance for a given direction of travel," and the chart prices the distance flown. The seven connection points in the table below are London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon and Istanbul: each row adds the great-circle distance from the US airport to the point and from the point to the African city. This is distance arithmetic only. It does not say that any airline flies a pair through any of them, which is a question for a search screen. The largest ratio among all 168 combinations is 1.35 times the nonstop distance (Atlanta to Cape Town through Istanbul), well inside the policy's limit of 2.

Three pairs change band at all seven connection points: Newark to Johannesburg, Newark to Cape Town and Washington Dulles to Cape Town. Newark to Johannesburg is 7,993.9 miles nonstop and 8,470.8 at the shortest connection, so a Newark connection takes the all-other-partners economy price from 60,000 to 75,000 points and business from 90,000 to 110,000. Cape Town from Newark is 7,825.0 nonstop and 8,707.9 at the shortest connection; from Washington Dulles, 7,931.5 and 8,914.3.

Two more pairs cross at only some points. Washington Dulles to Nairobi stays in the 6,001 to 8,000 band at five of the seven and crosses at Amsterdam, 8,006.2 miles, and Istanbul, 8,198.8; Los Angeles to Cairo crosses only at Lisbon, 8,042.6. Washington Dulles to Cairo never crosses, but its Istanbul connection is 3.2 miles under 6,000, and Newark to Nairobi through Istanbul is 11.9 miles under 8,000. KrisFlyer's zone price does not change with any of these connections, but its terms require "the most direct route" and bar backtracking, so a connection still has to be a sensible one.

Cairo: 17,500 points under KrisFlyer from Newark and Dulles

From Newark and Washington Dulles, Cairo is 5,618.2 and 5,830.1 miles, inside the 4,001 to 6,000 band by 381.8 and 169.9 miles. That band prices a partner economy seat at 42,500 points and business at 75,000, against KrisFlyer's 60,000 and 114,500, a gap of 17,500 points in economy and 39,500 in business. No other pair on this page is that far apart.

The gap closes from the other four gateways. Atlanta (6,360.4 miles) is 360.4 past the 6,000 line and Chicago (6,136.0) is 136.0 past it, so both price at 60,000 economy and 90,000 business, which ties KrisFlyer in economy and sits 24,500 below it in business. Houston (7,005.3) and Los Angeles (7,592.5) fall in the same band.

Cairo's KrisFlyer zone is the chart's own assignment, since the "Middle East, North Africa" box lists Egypt. Of the two cheap Cairo pairs, Washington Dulles has the thinner margin: 169.9 miles inside the 6,000 line nonstop, and 3.2 miles inside it on the Istanbul geometry. A trip that lands past the line costs the 17,500-point step in economy.

Johannesburg, Cape Town and Nairobi: where the flat zone price wins

All 12 pairs from Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles to Nairobi, Johannesburg and Cape Town are past 8,000 miles (8,021.7 to 10,380.9), and so is Washington Dulles to Johannesburg at 8,137.1. On all 13 of those, KrisFlyer's 63,000-mile economy price is 12,000 below Aeroplan's flat 75,000 and is also below the select start of 70,000. In business the order reverses: Aeroplan's flat 110,000 is 12,500 below KrisFlyer's 122,500.

The East Coast is different. Newark is 6.1 miles inside the 8,000 line for Johannesburg, 175.0 inside for Cape Town and 625.5 inside for Nairobi. If a search prices a Newark nonstop at those distances, the flat price is 60,000, which is 3,000 below KrisFlyer's 63,000; if it prices at 8,001 miles or more, it is 12,000 above. For Johannesburg the margin is 6.1 miles, so the first search in either program is the real test. Cape Town is 168.9 to 398.0 miles nearer than Johannesburg from each gateway here, which is why Washington Dulles can price Cape Town at 60,000 and Johannesburg at 75,000.

Nairobi depends on the zone assumption in the KrisFlyer column and on thin margins in the Aeroplan column: Chicago is 21.7 past 8,000 and Atlanta 48.0 past 8,000. If the chart does treat Kenya as Middle East, North Africa, the 60,000 economy price ties Aeroplan's flat price from Newark and Washington Dulles and is 15,000 below it from the other four gateways.

Singapore Airlines' own chart is a different document

KrisFlyer publishes a second chart, "Singapore Airlines One-Way Advantage and Saver Award Chart," whose file name carries 261002 and whose footer reads "Effective 1 November 2025." It prices Singapore Airlines flights, not Star Alliance partners, and says "Redemption is not permitted on Singapore Airlines codeshare flights operated on the aircraft of other airlines." Its Zone 10 is "Africa, Middle East and Turkey," and its two US zones are "USA (West Coast)" and "USA (East Coast)." The Zone 10 cell for the West Coast carries a value on the Saver and Advantage pages; the Zone 10 cell for the East Coast carries a caret, which the chart defines as "To confirm the exact mileage required, please use the mileage calculator."

The West Coast values are starred: "The redemption amounts shown in the redemption charts are indicative. They may not apply to zonal combinations involving backtracking routes, routes exceeding the permitted maximum mileage between zones, routes that commence and terminate in the same country, and other routing configurations. To confirm the redemption amount required for a redemption booking, please contact KrisFlyer Membership Services." Saver economy is 69,000 miles, 6,000 above the Star Alliance chart's 63,000 for Central, South Africa and 9,000 above 60,000 for the other zone; Saver business is 162,500 against 122,500 and 114,500. The chart does not say which US states belong to each zone, so Los Angeles is the only gateway here that clearly belongs to the West Coast zone. The chart does not say that any Singapore Airlines flight serves a US to Africa pair, so these prices exist only as chart cells.

The cash lines each source prints, and the ones none prints

None of the Aeroplan chart, policy and notice, or the KrisFlyer charts, terms and award pages, prints a carrier surcharge amount for a US to Africa route, so the route tables carry no surcharge column. What the programs do print is a short list of program-level cash items, set out in the table. Aeroplan's policy states the partner booking fee, CAD 39 per ticket, on any reward that includes a flight not operated by Air Canada, Air Canada Express, Rouge or a Landline bus; at the assumed C$1 = US$0.72 used elsewhere on this site, that is $28.08. The policy also says "Flight Reward reservations may include a U.S. Tax Recovery Fee," without giving an amount, and the chart says "Taxes and third-party charges may apply."

KrisFlyer's figures are floors that apply to the whole chart. The Star Alliance chart prints that round-trip awards start "from US$40 in taxes, surcharges and fees," the Singapore Airlines chart prints "from US$24" for its awards, and the Terms and Conditions put "any fuel or other surcharges imposed by Singapore Airlines or any other partner airlines" on the passenger without naming an amount. Atmos Rewards' award charts page, in the Wayback copy, prints the $12.50 fee for itineraries with a partner segment, says taxes and carrier-imposed fees start "from $5.60 per person, each way," and says the exact amount "will appear when searching for a particular itinerary," so it too prints no amount for a US to Africa route. The site's award taxes and carrier surcharges guide sets out the US government amounts on a ticket leaving a US airport, and bags and seat fees on award tickets covers the cash that comes after the ticket is issued.

Stopovers, one-way pricing and infants on these awards

Aeroplan allows a stopover "once per direction of travel, including on one-way travel," for up to 45 days, says "Additional points are required for stopovers," and bars stopovers "within Canada, the United States, or China." The policy's stopover section does not print the number of extra points, so a stopover on the way to Africa cannot be priced from the chart. Because the chart prices distance flown, a stopover that adds mileage can also move the band, which is the arithmetic in the connection table.

KrisFlyer works the other way. A one-way award at half price must have no stopover, and the chart says the mileage "for one-way Star Alliance awards that includes at least one stopover will be calculated based on each flight sector in the itinerary, unless otherwise specified in our Terms and Conditions." The Terms and Conditions define a stopover as "a connection above four hours in an itinerary within or between the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands, or a connection above 24 hours in all other itineraries," give round-trip Star Alliance awards one complimentary en route stopover (not for itineraries that contain only European cities or run between the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands), and say "Complimentary stopovers are not permitted for one-way awards." So the half-price one-way figure holds only while the trip is continuous, and a night in Europe puts the award on a per-sector basis the chart does not print.

Infants follow a separate rule in each program. Aeroplan charges "CAD25 or 2,500 Points" per direction on an itinerary that is not wholly within Canada or between Canada and the United States, and taxes, fees and charges are assessed. KrisFlyer states "A flight ticket for an infant ... must be purchased with cash." The site's lap infants and kids on award tickets guide compares the programs.

What a seat has to cost in cash to justify these points

The seven economy prices on this page are 35,000, 42,500, 55,000, 60,000, 63,000, 70,000 and 75,000 points. The fare at which the points alone return a given number of cents is the points times that target, before any cash due on the award; each dollar of cash due raises the fare needed by a dollar. The table gives the points-only fares at 1.00, 1.50 and 2.00 cents per point, and the target is the reader's to set.

Against a $1,300 one-way fare, 60,000 points returns 2.17 cents before cash and 75,000 returns 1.73, which moves a booking from above a 2.00 cent target to below it. The 15,000-point gap between the two is $225 of fare at a 1.50 target.

Matching a chart price to a search screen

A chart price is a starting point, and the search screen is the quote. The award availability search order lists which free airline and program sites to check and in what order, and the Aeroplan partner awards guide sets out the issuer ratios and the CAD 39 fee in the same arithmetic used here. For the economy seat, long-haul economy on points gives the break-even method, and premium cabin on points covers the business-class trade-offs that the median column raises.

Compare the distance Aeroplan's search shows with the figure in the 24-pair table before transferring anything; a result that lands in the next band up is the price that counts. For KrisFlyer, confirm which zone the booking screen assigns to the African city, especially Nairobi, and whether the itinerary counts as continuous. Transfers are usually irreversible and belong after the seat is found, never before. Atmos Rewards' Europe, Middle East, Africa chart is priced above at its starting amounts only, so before moving points to Atmos, confirm on its search that a partner flies the pair at that level; the Atmos partner guide sets out how that chart is built. To see the same Aeroplan table applied to Europe, open Aeroplan points to Europe, and for a distance chart's behavior in another region, South America on points.