How to Transfer Bilt Points to Air Canada Aeroplan (2026 Guide)

Bilt Rewards points transfer to Air Canada Aeroplan at 1:1, and unlike some Bilt partners the transfer typically lands within minutes, though Bilt notes it can take up to 48 hours in some cases. For a card best known for turning rent into points, that's a meaningful upgrade path — Bilt points earned paying rent can become a Star Alliance business-class seat without ever touching a bank's own travel portal.

The appeal of Aeroplan specifically is what happens after the points land: on most partner redemptions, Aeroplan doesn't pass along the steep carrier-imposed fuel surcharges that make booking the same seat through a program like Lufthansa's Miles & More far more expensive in cash. Combined with Star Alliance's reach — Lufthansa, Swiss, Singapore Airlines, ANA, United, and dozens more — that makes Aeroplan one of the stronger destinations for Bilt points, especially for renters who'd otherwise have no clear use for a travel currency.

Aeroplan prices awards by the actual distance flown, sorted into mileage bands within broader geographic zones like Atlantic and Pacific rather than flat one-price-fits-all regions. The shorter the distance band your itinerary falls into, the fewer points it costs, which means the specific airports on your ticket can change the price even for what feels like the same trip.

Under the chart that took effect June 1, 2026, a North America-to-Europe business-class redemption of 4,000 miles or less prices at 60,000 points one-way — and that's the band most East Coast gateways to major Western European cities fall into, not the pricier tier above it. Push past 4,000 miles (a longer routing like JFK-Rome, or anything departing the US West Coast) and business class runs 75,000 points one-way, up from 70,000 before the June 2026 update, with first class in that band now 120,000 points. Transpacific routes follow the same logic: business class from 0-5,000 miles holds at 55,000 points, while the 7,501-11,000-mile band — most nonstop US-Asia routing — rose to 102,500 points, a meaningful jump from 87,500. Always check the live chart on aircanada.com before transferring, since Aeroplan has shown it will adjust these bands.

Because pricing follows distance bands rather than fixed regions, the itineraries that land just under a threshold are the ones worth hunting for. A closer European gateway can keep a business-class booking in the cheaper 60,000-point band instead of spilling into the 75,000-point tier, and on the Pacific side, routings like Vancouver-Tokyo have held onto 55,000-point business-class pricing even as most other transpacific bands got more expensive in the June 2026 update.

Aeroplan's stopover rule is the other lever worth building a trip around. On a one-way award, you can add a stopover of up to 45 days in a connecting city for a flat 5,000 points, and a round-trip award can carry one stopover in each direction — the stopover city just can't be in the US or Canada. For a Bilt member turning rent points into a single annual trip, that's an easy way to see two cities on the miles you'd otherwise spend on one.

Award space on Star Alliance partners is searchable and bookable directly on aircanada.com, generally the most reliable place to check real-time saver availability across the alliance rather than relying on a partner's own site.

Booking a partner airline instead of Air Canada itself adds a flat CA$39 (roughly US$28-29) partner-booking fee on top of taxes and government-imposed fees. It's a modest add-on next to the fuel surcharges some other programs charge, but worth budgeting for when you're pricing out a redemption.