MONTREAL, May 8 /CNW/ - Destina.ca is giving Canadians a million reasons
to make their travel bookings online. Beginning today until July 2, 2002,
newly enrolled members of Canada`s recently launched full service travel site
become automatically eligible to win one of eight weekly draws of 100,000
Aeroplan Miles or a grand prize of one million Aeroplan Miles. Lucky winners
of the Destina.ca contest will be drawn once a week beginning May 17 until
July 5, 2002 when the grand prize will also be drawn. Complete contest details
are available online at www.destina.ca.

“Response from customers has been very positive since we launched
Destina.ca just two week ago,” said Denise Chartrand, Vice President,
Marketing. “With this million mile sweepstakes offer we want to show our
customers just how rewarding Destina.ca can be for making online travel
bookings. Thanks to our exclusive partnership with Aeroplan, our million mile
winner will be able to fly more than three times around the world.”

In addition to new members being automatically enrolled in the eight week
sweepstakes, every time a Destina.ca customer makes an online purchase, he or
she will be re-enrolled for one hundred additional chances to win the grand
prize of one million Aeroplan Miles.

Destina.ca is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air Canada (TSE: AC). It
operates Canada`s full-service online travel site offering low prices and one-
stop access to 450 airlines, 53,000 hotels and 52 car rental agencies.
Destina.ca is the only online travel site to reward all purchases with
Aeroplan Miles. Destina.ca offers customers a personalized web experience and
fully bilingual customer care to assist with all online purchases 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.

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