 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan and on this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos. If you like what you see, please do the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you. Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have a few updates about airplane and air Canada. You may have already known that airplane and air Canada will terminate their 30 years relationship on June 29, 2020 and starting July 2020, airplane and air Canada will offer two separate programs. So the first update I have today is about air Canada. Air Canada recently announced that it is negotiating with potential new trade card partners and it will let us know by this year, by the end of this year, once it decides on which trade card partners to choose from. So I have a feeling that there's going to be more than one trade card partner. For example, in the past we have seen when airplane is to be a part of air Canada, then there are trade cards like TD, airplane visa infinite, or CIBC, visa infinite and then there are some American Express trade card partners. So it looks like there will be more than one trade card and then we'll have more information on that by the year end. The second update I have today is from Airplan. Airplan recently mentioned that starting 2020 customers will have more freedom to choose any seat from more airlines and customers will have more seat inventory to choose and they're not going to be tied up to any single airline or any single network. What it means that it looks like to me that Airplan is going to be something like AirMiles starting 2020 after the termination with Air Canada and just like now if you want to choose any seat using AirMiles program then there are several airline partners and you're not tied to any airlines alliance or network. So basically Airplan will be a program like AirMiles and you will be able to choose more airlines without restricting to any airlines which is not necessarily a bad thing but what is not good about that is that this is my feeling that right now we have access to business class seat inventories from Star Alliance member flights which is Air Canada a part of. So after 2020 Air airplane will lose that access and you're not going to be able to have business class flights just the way you can have right now. For let's say if you'd like to go to Asia right now you only need about 78,000 airplane miles to go to Asia and the real flight cost going to Asia on business class could run from 5000 to 10,000 but in terms of miles you're going to you need only 78,000 miles. But because Airplan will be losing the access to Star Alliance program it will be losing to the business class access and the seats you're going to end up with is only the regular economy class seats which is not bad for many of us but for some of us this is not an option. I prefer to have access to business class seats because that's where I get the most value for my points and so this is just what I'm assuming that that's what Airplan is talking about you'll have more seats from without restricting to any network but we'll wait and see what Airplan does or what type of seat inventory it offers and if it can get some access to business class seats then we'll see if that happens but for me that looks like not a possibility. So that's all I have for now if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing there will be more videos coming up and I'll see you shortly thank you