Yeah it was a tad out of the ordinary, even surprised the sender when I phone to respond.

Right you are squire.

I never said about Air Canada not offering miles on Toronto-London! That was someone else, for me it isn't really relevant as I doubt I will fly on that route as there too much competition.

I only used the London-Paris and Toronto-New York example as 2 similar length routes off the top of my head.

Other nominated companies:
Purolator

I actually have no problems with Canada Post, as stuff gets there very quick. Normally stuff gets there in under a week, here it can take me weeks to receive it. And I am sure the hold-up is on this end.

Sorry Babsi, I just quoted the OP. Dunno how your name got in there.

The statement indicated that no points were available on flights to the UK, when in fact most classes do continue to offer points.

I'm jealous if you can afford Business Class with AC to Canada I swear they make you enter/exit the front of the plane so you can stare at the expensive comfy seats shaped like beds with your bleary bloodshot cattle-class eyes.

This is from my blog a couple of days ago - I flew Air Canada business class from Tokyo to Toronto... It's all true, I swear....

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Oh, I should mention that I got my upgrade and I'm back in one of the pods. Again, my mixing with the cretinous masses was kept brief with the two different entrances to the airplane, thank the heavens. It did irk me somewhat, breathing the same air as those hatefully banal air-savers back at the airport, shortly before boarding. One way to make air travel more enjoyable for the likes of myself and other business class users would be to simply round up the cattle class passengers, have them board the plane first, while we remain untouched in the business lounge. Once they have been safely contained in THEIR cabin, the rest of us could board at our leisure, never having to be stained by the auras of those disgusting, repugnant pigs who would rather fly like caged rats than breathe the free air of the upper classes. They are of a subclass barely worthy of mention in humanity's annuls.

You should have seen our dinner in business class; an endless parade of glorious, fire-roasted racks of once-thought fabled beasts, hand killed by revered African warrior hunter-priests, flown to the highest bidders on golden cranes in exchange for the riches of kings, delivered on silver platters to us by the black-haired Elfin women of the Arctic kingdoms. We sat on platinum lined cushions nested in the finest wicker short-thrones, imported from the far reaches of the ghostly forests of eastern Machu-Pichu, our shoulders massaged by bare-chested, pale brown Nubian maidens, all the while bathing in the ethereal pale blue glow of an Antarctic ice sculpture of a Babylonian swan-goddess, the centerpiece of the captain's fifty-foot long oak dinner table. The cries and moans of the putrid masses who subsidise our lavish lifestyle, sitting on top of one another in the rear of the plane were drowned out by the mystical, tantric instruments of worldly names, delivered to us by the latest Bose Noise Cancelling headphones.

Just for a laugh, later on in the flight, I might just brave a little jaunt down to the rear of the business class section and, from behind the safety curtain, throw a piece of stale bread, leftover from our regal dinner to the slavering plebs down back. I want to witness the cacophonous blood orgy that ensues as they scrap for minute crumbs of opulence, cast down to them as if it were some token of pity on their lives. (If you want to call what they have lives)

For what its worth I would not waste money on business class etc unless someone else was picking up the tab.

These ticket classes by the way...are coach:

Latitude Plus (Y, M, U)-100% of miles flown, N/A
Leisure (B, H, V, Q, L, A, S)-100% of miles flown, N/A

Not sure why I attributed the comment to Babsi...my apologies....