October 29 Update: Rewards Canada Podcast named a top finance podcast, IHG Rewards further extending elite status & Hotels. com extends stamps and reward nights

 Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 
The Rewards Canada Podcast has been named as one of the top 40 finance podcasts in Canada by Hardbacon. Hardbacon is a personal finance application used by more than 30,000 Canadians and our podcast is the only loyalty rewards show to make it on the list of, you guessed it, mostly finance podcasts! We are honoured to be recognized on the list as we do often state that loyalty programs should play a larger role in your financial planning. Check out the list of the 40 podcasts here and as always you can check out our Podcast here. 

WestJet Halloween Promo Code - Save 20% on flights in Canada, to the U.S., Sun Destinations and Europe

 
WestJet is also celebrating the Halloween weekend with a promo code that provides 20% off flights to all WestJet destinations. The code works for all fare economy and premium economy classes but is not available for business class. The sale ends on November 1 and is good for travel November 2, 2021 to February 28, 2022. The promo code to use is G58QG10 which is also supplied on the seat sale page. You do have to copy and paste it as it isn't auto-populated.

World of Hyatt's Off-Peak and Peak pricing is now live plus they have added a new points calendar

 

World of Hyatt's Off-Peak and Peak pricing went live back on October 26 and we've finally had a chance to check them out here at Rewards Canada. Recall that these new options are being introduced for award nights starting on March 1, 2022. This means all free night awards are at the standard rates until February 28, 2022.

Air Canada Halloween Promo Code - Save 20% on all fare classes for Canada, U.S. & Sun Destination flights

 
Air Canada is celebrating the Halloween weekend with a promo code that provides 20% off all Economy, Premium Economy and Business Class base fares for travel in Canada, to the U.S. and sun destinations.The sale ends on October 31 and is good for travel November 1, 2021 to February 28, 2022. The promo code to use is KMQJZKF1 which is also supplied on the seat sale page. You do have to copy and paste it as it isn't auto-populated.

100% bonus when you buy IHG Rewards Points by November 8

We see the return of IHG Rewards Club’s buy points bonus offer as a Flash Sale for the start of November  The promotion is a 100% bonus when you purchase 5,000 or more points at a time and once again the annual purchase limit has been raised to 250,000 points before the bonus.

October 28 Update: New increased welcome bonus offers for CIBC cards, Qatar Airways Montreal seat sale & Flair Airlines adds Manitoba to Saskatchewan routes

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

CIBC revealed new offers on their Aventura and Dividend Cards today! We have them all listed on our CIBC page and will have further coverage coming shortly. Here's a quick run down of the new offers:

CIBC Aventura® Visa Infinite* Card & CIBC Aventura® Gold Visa* Card: Get a total of up to 40,000 Aventura Points (up to $850 in travel value†) including a first year annual fee rebate!†

CIBC Dividend® Visa Infinite* Card & CIBC Dividend Platinum® Visa* Card Get a first-year annual fee rebate for you and up to three Authorized Users† and 10% cash back for the first 4 statements on net purchases of up to $2500.†

CIBC Aventura® Visa* Card & CIBC Aventura® Visa* Card for Students Get up to 12,000 Aventura points when you make your first purchase (up to $120 in travel value†)

CIBC Dividend® Visa* Card: Get 5% cash back for the first 4 statements on net purchases of up to $2,000 (up to $100 cash back).†

CIBC Dividend® Visa* Card for Students: Welcome Offer: Get $60 cash back after you make your first purchase within the first 4 months!†

Last few days to get the first year free & 3,500 points with the Signature RBC Rewards Visa

 

RBC's entry level rewards card, the Signature RBC Rewards Visa currently offers a first year annual fee waiver as part of its welcome bonus. That will change as of November 2nd as the bank will start charging the $39 annual fee in the first year on new applications. CORRECTION: The 3,500 welcome bonus points will also not be carried over as we initially reported. So if you have been considering this card you'll definitely want to apply for it by November 1. Click here to learn more.

October 27 Update: Radisson Rewards extending elite status to 2023 and your weekly PC Optimum & Be Well shopping bonuses!

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

Radisson Rewards is the latest hotel program to provide a further extension on Elite benefits. They announced that all Radisson Rewards Americas Silver, Gold and Platinum members whose status is set to expire in February 2022 will have it extended to February 2023. They will also rollover all 2021 elite nights that you have earned to 2022 thereby making it easier to achieve status for 2023. They have not however extended the expiration on points - those are still set to start expiring on December 31, 2021. I actually just received an email from them about a week ago telling me my points will expire at that time. I'm going to have to look at either buying a small amount of points current or convert a small amount to one of my airline programs to keep them going. Learn more here

A closer look at the credit card that Canada voted as the number one No Foreign Transaction Fee card

 
The results of Canada's Choice 2021 were revealed earlier this month covering 10 categories of credit cards and loyalty with some surprising and not so surprising results. The third of which we look is the card that took the top spot in the No Foreign Transaction Fee Credit Card category and that's the
HSBC World Elite® Mastercard®

Receive up to a 15% bonus when you convert HSBC Rewards (Canada) points to Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer

 
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer has brought back their bonus for transferring bank rewards points (ie credit card) to their program. For us here in Canada this means HSBC Rewards and the bonus ranges from 12% to 15% depending on how many points you transfer to KrisFlyer. So this is a little different than when they ran it at the end of last year/beginning of this year as that time it was a flat 15% instead of a tiered bonus. The transfer window is also smaller this time as you only have until November 22 to make a transfer, though SQ did extend it last year so it is possible it will be extended this time as well.

October 26 Update: Air Transat adding more U.S. and Europe flights for summer 2022 and a new RBC Offer for Boston Pizza purchases

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 
Air Transat has announced some new U.S. and European routes for Summer 2022. For U.S. flights the airline will offer twice weekly service between Montreal and San Francisco, three times weekly service between Toronto and Los Angeles and they will make Montreal to Miami and Quebec City to Ft. Lauderdale flights year round instead of just over the winter. For Europe the airline is adding Montreal to Amsterdam and Quebec City to London flights. Both of the Europe flights will operate once per week. (Source Air Transat)

American AAdvantage simplifies and changes how elite status is earned

 
Big changes from American Airlines today in regards to their AAdvantage frequent flyer program. The changes revolve around earning elite status and AA has gone away from the model most airlines have adopted over the past decade or so. Gone are elite qualifying miles, elite qualifying segments and elite qualifying dollars, to be replaced by Loyalty Points. One simple elite qualifier, Loyalty Points are earned on a one to one basis for most AAdvantage miles earned by a member through flying, credit card spend and earning with partners.

Up to a 100% bonus when you buy Air France KLM Flying Blue Miles and how there can be value in buying them

Flying Blue's buy miles bonus has returned not too long after we last saw it. The offer provides up to a 100% bonus when you buy Flying Blue miles and this time that 100% level starts at 20,000 miles instead of 30,000 miles. If you are short some miles for a redemption or want to speculatively buy for if and when we see a 50% off business class promo reward you'll want to check out this offer.

Big changes coming to the Marriott Bonvoy program including dynamic pricing (award charts to be done away with)

 

We all woke up to big news this fine Tuesday morning and that news affects a lot of Canadians including ourselves. Some of it is good but the major part of it isn't so good. The news comes to us from Marriott International and their Bonvoy frequent guest program. This is Canada's favourite (as voted on by you) and most popular hotel loyalty program that we have all loved to use and also get mad at for past changes - just like we have done with so many other programs like Aeroplan and AIR MILES. Today's news will definitely continue that love hate relationship.

AIR MILES Shops Halloween special: 7x miles sitewide for your online shopping

 

Time for another bonus for your online shopping! AIR MILES shops is back with a Halloween special 7x site wide bonus offer. This offer is good for purchases made by October 31, 21

October 25 Update: Air Canada adding new Quebec City to Calgary & Vancouver flights and earn 1,000 bonus points on your next Best Western stay

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 
Air Canada Rouge has announced a couple more new routes for next summer - both out of Quebec City. The airline will be offering summer seasonal service from Quebec City to Calgary and Vancouver. YVR flights launch on May 20 with up to three flights per week and the YYC flights start up on May 21 with up to four flights per week. Learn more here

A closer look at the credit card that Canada voted as the number one no annual fee travel rewards card in Canada

The results of Canada's Choice 2021 were revealed earlier this month covering 10 categories of credit cards and loyalty with some surprising and not so surprising results. We are now providing a series if posts that take a closer look at all the winners and our commentary on it. The second of which we look is the card that took the top spot in the No Annual Fee Travel Rewards Credit Card category and that's the BMO AIR MILES®† MasterCard®*.

Air Canada partners with Switch Health to offer portable self-administered COVID-19 tests

 

Air Canada has announced a new partnership with Canadian healthcare company Switch Health to offer comprehensive travel testing options including self administered COVID-19 tests. The various test options are portable and can be taken by travelers to anywhere they are traveling to. As part of the partnership between the airline and Switch, Aeroplan members receive discounted pricing and and can earn points on the kit purchases.

October 22 Update: Hilton adds automatic upgrades for Gold & Diamond Elites, WorldHotels Rewards offering instant Gold Elite status & more!

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 Hilton Hotels announced some minor changes this week that include automatic upgrades for elite members and digital key sharing. Here are the details Hilton provided to us:

Loyalty Lesson: Is a 30% return on credit card spending possible? Yes, it sure is!

 
This is one of those posts that wasn't planned but it kind of fell right into my lap and I had to write it after I completed another post on our site. That other post was A closer look at the credit card that Canada voted as the number one overall travel rewards card in Canada where we took a detailed look at the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card. In that post we provided an example of how you could redeem Aeroplan points for a Business Class ticket between Calgary and Toronto and get 6 cents per point in value.

Summary of global hotel systemwide bonus points promotions – October Edition

 
Here is your monthly update of all the global hotel bonus points promotions that are available. One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of these systemwide bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs. Unless you are staying at a boutique hotel or perhaps an independent hotel most other hotels out there have a bonus. So take advantage of it! Most of these systemwide bonuses simply require you to register beforehand and they do not affect hotel pricing as long as you book a point eligible rate which are most rates out there. Of course booking through a third party site like Expedia or Rocketmiles does not count as most chains only award points on bookings that are made directly with them.  Here are all the current promotions that are available to everyone this month:

WestJet will allow you to use expiring companion vouchers for others and you don't have to travel with them

 

WestJet Rewards revealed a new limited time promotion today that will allow members to utilize any companion vouchers that are expiring this year for others without the need of the voucher holder travelling. 

AIR MILES Flight-A-Day Giveaway - Enter to win $5,000 and $25,000 flight vouchers

 

As mentioned in our Big changes coming to the AIR MILES program post from earlier this month one of the promotions you could expect is now here! That promotion is the AIR MILES Flight-A-Day Giveaway which offers a total of 21 $5,000 flights vouchers (1 awarded per day) and a grand prize of a $25,000 flight voucher! 

A standardized Canadian COVID-19 Proof of Vaccination (Vaccine Passport) is now here

 

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that a Canadian Vaccine Passport that can be used for international travel will be available soon. The Government of Canada has worked with the provinces and territories to create a standardized proof of vaccination.

A closer look at the credit card that Canada voted as the number one overall travel rewards card in Canada

 

The results of Canada's Choice 2021 were revealed earlier this week covering 10 categories of credit cards and loyalty with some surprising and not so surprising results. The first of those we look at was a not so surprising showing by the TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card The card took first place in two categories along with it's associated program, Aeroplan, taking top spot in a third category.

Podcast Episode 84 - See who Canada chose as their favourite credit cards and loyalty programs

 

Wyndham Rewards: Earn 7,500 bonus points when you stay 4 nights in Canada & Worldwide

 

Wyndham Rewards next systemwide promotion is here and it offers the equivalent of a free night after you complete four nights with the chain. Advertised as a free night after four nights the promotion actually awards 7,500 bonus points when you complete those four nights. Those 7,500 bonus points are enough for the lowest level award night redemption in the  Wyndham Rewards program. While it is nice to have a systemwide promo from Wyndham this is one of the hardest bonuses to earn in the current market of offers with most only requiring one or two nights or stays to get a bonus.

World of Hyatt's new Peak & Off-Peak pricing will be effective as of October 26

 
Originally planned to come to into effect in March of 2020 Hyatt's Peak and Off-Peak pricing for their World of Hyatt program was delayed due to the pandemic. Earlier this year the program said they will come into effect this October and now we know exactly when. As of 10:00am CT on Tuesday October 26, 2021 these new options are being introduced for award nights starting on March 1, 2022. This means all free night awards will be at the standard rates until February 28, 2022.

Flair Airlines adding flights to Denver, Nashville and San Francisco plus adding more domestic routes

 
It seems that we are now seeing new route announcements from Flair Airlines every few weeks! The latest sees the Ultra Low Cost Carrier further expanding in the U.S. and adding more routes within Canada. The latest cities being added to Flair's route map include Denver, Nashville and San Francisco in the U.S. as well as Comox on Vancouver Island.

October 19 Update: Sun Country to launch Vancouver - Minneapolis/St. Paul flights plus earn double points & multiple offers from Italy's new airline ITA Airways

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

Two new airlines were added to the Rewards Canada bonus offers section today! We are now tracking bonus offers for Sun Country Rewards (https://rewardscanada.ca/suncountry.html) who announced today that they are finally going ahead with their Vancouver to Minneapolis/St. Paul service. This route was originally set to launch in May 2020 but due to the pandemic that never happened. The Sun Country flights will being on June 15 and operate twice weekly.

Canada's Choice results are in! See who Canada chose as their favourite credit cards and loyalty programs

 

Canada, we asked you to come out and vote for your favourite credit cards and loyalty programs in late September and early October for our Canada's Choice awards. The results are in and we are pleased to present them to you here. For some categories there are no surprises while we were definitely surprised by some others! We want to give a big thank you to our regulars readers who cast their votes and also a big thank you to a lot of newcomers who came to our site to vote!

Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for October - These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses

 
Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for this month! This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards for small businesses that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the just sign up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards. This month we see three first year free cards on the list! And remember this list is based on minimum value towards travel which we calculate as the minimum value of the welcome bonus less the annual fee. It is entirely possible to receive more value out of the welcome bonuses on all of these cards since they earn Aeroplan points or Marriott Bonvoy points - both of which can provided some huge outsized value rewards!

October 18 Update: New Amex Offer for Whole Foods and the U.S. online shopping portals are where it's at!

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, no annual fee in the first year and has no foreign transaction fees!

 

One more Amex Offers offer to let know about today! The latest sees the return of a statement credit for Whole Foods. I received this on the Platinum Card but am surprised I was targeted seeing that I'm in Calgary and we don't have any Whole Foods locations here. Anyways be sure to check your Amex account to see if you have received this offer and register for it right away as it is limited to 15,000 cardmembers. Of course I didn't register for it as I don't think I'll be visting a Whole Foods in the B.C. or Ontario by the end of the year. Here is the offer:

Starbucks Rewards Star Days: Earn bonus Stars and Aeroplan points this week

 

Starbucks Canada Star Days are here for the next five days with offers for bonus Stars, bonus Aeroplan points and discounted drinks. Since we're all about the points will just focus on what bonuses you can earn during this week.

Aeroplan Elite Status Update: Extension of eUpgrades, membership kits to be limited & a change to SQD for non-Canadian residents

 
The following updates and changes to Aeroplan Elite Status are being sent to Air Canada Elite members today. Good news for all members is the extension of eUpgrade credits by a couple of weeks and not so good news for non-Canadian members in that they lose the 50% fewer Status Qualifying Dollars requirement. 

Save up to 30% for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada and the Americas

 

A friendly reminder that Accor Hotel’s Take Your Time promotion has returned for the fall and winter.  Take Your Time provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada (Montreal, Ottawa & Toronto) as well as the U.S. and Central America. Plus you have the opportunity to earn extra ALL Rewards points on those stays.

Amex Offers: $40 statement credit on $200 Ivanhoe Shopping Cards, $70 credit on $70 1password spend and $100 credit on $100 Indeed spend

 This past week saw three new Amex Offers come out including the return of an Ivanhoe Cambridge gift card statement credit . In the Rewards Canada household we received all these offers on The Platinum Card and the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card. Here are the offers:

Save up to 30% for stays at Fairmont Hotels in Canada and the Americas

 
A friendly reminder that Fairmont Hotel’s Take Your Time promotion has returned for the fall and winter.  Take Your Time provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Fairmont Hotels in North and Central America plus you have the opportunity to earn extra ALL Rewards points on those stays.

October 15 Update: Check out the AIR MILES Carousel of Dreams in Toronto this weekend and don't forget to earn miles & points for shopping online from the U.S.

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500 and no annual fee in the first year! 

If you are in Toronto today and tomorrow and can make it down to Yonge-Dundas Square (1 Dundas St E) go check out the AIR MILES Carousel of Dreams! To celebrate the revamping of the program this 40ft long luggage carousel that offers major rewards and prizes from top brands. The event is open for AIR MILES collectors and AIR MILES & Onyx credit cardholders. Prizes from top brands and AIR MILES Partners like BMO, Sobeys, Shell, Metro, Samsung, Smeg and many more, are all up for grabs on the Carousel of Dreams, as well as free flights from travel partners Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, and Delta. Featuring a 40-foot luggage carousel, the event reinforces AIR MILES’ commitment to providing collectors with more redemption benefits, more ways to earn, and more opportunities to take part in promotions.

Miles & More Mileage Bargains - Big mileage discounts of 50% or more on flights to Europe from Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver

 
It's been a long time coming, since February 2020 in fact, but the Miles & More Mileage Bargains (Meilenschnaeppchen) are back with Canadian departures! Yes, after 19 months of not having them on offer due to the pandemic these discounted award flight offers have returned. And there's a lot of them in Economy, Premium Economy and Business Class! In fact a total of 540 options to redeem for!

Final hours for Marriott Bonvoy Week of Wonders with bonus points, stay offers, discounted award nights & more

 

Marriott’s Week of Wonders ends in a few short hours outside of the Homes & Villas offer which goes for another week. Here's a recap of all the offers:

25% off paid stay at over 5,000 locations Worldwide

This is essentially Marriott Bonvoy Escapes made much bigger and for a longer duration. You can save 25% on bookings made between today and Thursday, October 14 at participating over 5,000 properties globally for stays through January 17, 2022. In Canada 210 of their 264 properties are part of this deal!  Learn more about and book this this Week of Wonders offer here.

Receive a 50% discount when you buy Hilton Honors points

 
Hilton has returned with yet another buy points offer! This time instead of being their usual 100% bonus they have opted for a 50% discount. This is basically the same deal price wise but unless you need to buy points right now for a planned award redemption I would wait to buy. You may ask why wait if the price is the same as when it is a 100% bonus? The reason why is your annual purchase limit. Hilton caps the amount of points you can buy at 80,000 per year but that doesn’t include any bonus points on purchases. Since this is a discount offer if you buy the maximum of 80,000 points you get 80,000 points but pay for 40,000. When they run a 100% bonus you buy 80,000 points and get 160,000. Or buy 40,000 to get the same 80,000 and still have the ability to buy 40,000 more later on – so ultimately you can earn more points when it is a bonus versus a discount.

October 14 Update: U.S. land border to reopen to vaccinated Canadians and World of Hyatt Peak/Off Peak pricing coming very soon so book your stays now

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500 towards any travel and no annual fee in the first year! 

The U.S. Government announced this week that they will be reopening the land border to fully vaccinated Canadians starting in November. I know most of our readers tend to fly to the U.S. but this is great news for those of you who utilize U.S. border cities for flights like Bellingham, Seattle, Detroit, Buffalo and Burlington to name a few! (Source CTV News)

The Ultimate No Fee Aeroplan Credit Card Portfolio!

 

Hot on the heels of our Clash of the Credit Cards where two no annual fee cards that offer Aeroplan points went head to head we figured it would be perfect timing to also put together the Ultimate No Annual Fee Aeroplan Credit Card portfolio. In this feature of Rewards Canada' Ultimate Credit Card Portfolios we look at the ultimate one for earning Aeroplan points all with cards that don't charge any annual fees. Since we launched Rewards Canada back in 2001 we have always recommended that you should carry a Visa, a Mastercard and an American Express card in your wallet and that's what these Ultimate portfolios encompass. The reason why is that there are benefits, promotions and earning potential unique to each brand of credit card. We won't go into detail here as you can read all about it in our feature on how to Maximize your Miles and Points but in this feature we outline one card from each brand that will help you build up those Aeroplan points without having to worry about paying any annual fees. Typically in these portfolios there are various options that could be utilized however when it comes to no annual fee cards that you can earn Aeroplan points with, there are only three in total and each single one just happens to be from each of the individual issuers. You can also find this feature on the main Rewards Canada website

One small positive change coming to the American Express® AIR MILES®* Reserve Credit Card

Last week was a big week for AIR MILES as they announced their first set of changes that have come and will be coming to the programs over the coming months. The biggest change will be with the launch of their new AIR MILES Flights platform that sees such changes as dynamic award pricing, being able to book any fare class and being able to book any flights worldwide. Hence with those changes we see a slight change American Express® AIR MILES®* Reserve Credit Card which ties into to the new AIR MILES Flights program.

October 13 Update: Earn up to 1,000 bonus points at Shangri-La hotels in Canada, save up to 40% with Kimpton's Secret Sale & more!

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points and no annual fee in the first year! 

 
You can earn up to 1,000 bonus GC (Golden Circle) Award points for stays at the Shangri-La Vancouver or Shangri-La Toronto Hotels. This offer runs from tomorrow to January 15, 2022. There are also five other hotels globally that are participating in this offer. The offer awards 250 bonus points on stays of 2 nights, 500 bonus points on 3-5 night stays and 1,000 bonus points for 6 or more nights.. Click here to learn more about and to book this offer.

Air Canada launching new Montreal to Delhi flights

 
Air Canada only recently re-started flying to India after the Canadian Government lifted the ban on flights to the country and now the airline is planning to expand on those flights. Starting on October 31 Air Canada will launch 3x weekly service between Montreal and Delhi. They are also increasing flights between Toronto and Delhi to 10 times per week as of October 15. The airline's flights from Vancouver to Delhi will remain the same with daily service.

Here are the latest RBC Offers including 10% off at McDonald's, 10% off at DSW & up to 5,000 points with Petro-Canada

 The RBC Offers program has added a quartet of new promotions this month to bring the complete list to 24 offers.

Be sure to login to your RBC account right away to load these offers (if required) or get the promo codes if required. Personally I received these offers on the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard but I know most if not all should also available for RBC's most popular card the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card and most other RBC cards.

New welcome bonus for MBNA Alaska Mastercards: $200 statement credit + up to 30,000 bonus Mileage Plan Miles

 

MBNA and Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan have come out with new welcome offers for their Canadian Mastercards. Right now when you apply for and approved for either of the cards not only will you earn the standard welcome bonus miles but you'll also be able to earn a $200 statement credit. These are the best ever offers seen to date on these cards surpassing last fall's $100 statement credit offer. 

Earn 7x Aeroplan Points for Apple Store purchases made by October 14

 
Aeroplan has brought back their 7x points offer for shopping online with Apple! This works for eligible online purchases, even those you pick up in store! This is how I used to do all my Apple purchases, buy online and pick up typically within 2-3 hours at the Apple store all the while earning tons of Aeroplan points (plus the points or miles earned on the credit card!). Now with the pandemic however I have had my Apple orders shipped to my home but I wanted to let you know you do have the option of doing the in store pick up.