Air Canada Earn Your Wings: New Badge released - The Detour Badge

If you are taking part in the Air Canada Earn Your Wings The Amazing Race Edition promotion you'll want to know that a new badge has been released that can earn you even more Race Wings (for details on the promotion overall, please see our post here). We'd love to hear how everyone is doing in the Earn Your Wings promotion! We personally are doing not so good as all of our flights planned over the next few month take to us cities that don't earn any additional Race Wings other than the 200 for each take off or landing!

The new badge is the 'Detour Badge' and awards Race Wings as follows:

Take the Detour to the top. To get through this challenge, you’ll need to make some decisions. Choose from amongst four regions and then book a round trip or two one-way flight segments from amongst the eligible routes. You’ll earn between 5,000 and 10,000 additional RaceWings depending on the region chosen, as well as the Detour badge, every time you complete the challenge. You can earn this badge more than once but remember, once you confirm your region, you can only book flights in that region for the remainder of the challenge. Book your eligible routes between October 28 and November 17, 2013, for travel by December 15, 2013. You’ll also keep earning Pit Stop, Fast Forward and Task Badges through the detour, so choose strategically!

The regions for this badge are as follows:

Europe

Earn 10,000 additional RaceWings and the Detour Badge for every round-trip or two one-way flight segments between:

• – Paris (CDG) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – London (LHR) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – London (LHR) and Montreal (YUL)

Asia

Earn 10,000 additional RaceWings and the Detour Badge for every round-trip or two one-way flight segments between:

• – Seoul (ICN) and Vancouver YVR)
• – Seoul (ICN) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – Beijing (PEK) and Vancouver (YVR)
• – Shanghai (PVG) and Vancouver (YVR)
• – Hong Kong (HKG) and Vancouver (YVR)
• – Hong Kong (HKG) and Toronto (YYZ)

West Coast USA

Earn 5,000 additional RaceWings and the Detour Badge for every round-trip or two one-way flight segments between:

• – Los Angeles (LAX) and Montreal (YUL)
• – Los Angeles (LAX) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – Los Angeles (LAX) and Calgary (YYC)
• – Los Angeles (LAX) and Vancouver (YVR)
• – San Francisco (SFO) and Montreal (YUL)
• – San Francisco (SFO) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – San Francisco (SFO) and Vancouver (YVR)
• – Seattle (SEA) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – Seattle (SEA) and Vancouver (YVR)

New York

Earn 5,000 additional RaceWings and the Detour Badge for every round-trip or two one-way flight segments between:

• – New York – LaGuardia (LGA) and Montreal (YUL)
• – New York – LaGuardia (LGA) and Ottawa (YOW)
• – New York – LaGuardia (LGA) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – New York – Newark (EWR) and Montreal (YUL)
• – New York – Newark (EWR) and Toronto (YYZ)
• – New York – Newark (EWR) and Calgary (YYC)
• – New York – Newark (EWR) and Vancouver (YVR)