ACE Aviation announces a secondary offering of units of Aeroplan Income Fund
MONTREAL, Oct. 1 /CNW Telbec/ - ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. (ACE)
announced today that it has entered into an agreement with a group of
underwriters to sell an aggregate of 22.0 million trust units (the "Units") of
Aeroplan Income Fund (Fund) (TSX: AER.UN) at a price of $21.90 per Unit, for
gross proceeds of $481.8 million. The Fund will not receive any of the
proceeds from this secondary offering by ACE. ACE announced that the offering
is expected to close on or about October 22, 2007. Subject to the completion
of the offering, ACE will retain 40,285,585 units of the Fund, representing
20.1% of the 200,000,000 units issued and outstanding.

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