Air Canada Elites will receive double Priority Rewards for the remainder of the year & a new targeted American Express Use Points for Purchases offer

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Air Canada sent an email out yesterday to elite members offering double Priority Rewards for the second half of 2022:

Finally, recognizing that most have already requalified for Status, we’re launching a special offer to reward Elite members for their travels through the end of this year. We’ll double every Priority Reward you earn between July 1st and December 31st, 20222. As a reminder, Priority Rewards give you 50% off every eligible Aeroplan flight reward on Air Canada and any of our airline partners

New WestJet Rewards Status Match Offer for Air Canada, Porter & British Airways elite members

 

WestJet Rewards has come out with a great new status match offer and challenge to keep that status. Elite members from Air Canada Aeroplan, Porter Airlines VIPorter & British Airways Executive Club can receive automatic matched status in WestJet Rewards until December 15, 2022. Then, to keep the status for 2023 you simply need to reach 20% of the regular required tier spend for the tier level you are matched to.

Earn 2x Elite Status Miles on TAP Air Portugal flights out of Montreal and Toronto

Earning double elite status miles on TAP Air Portugal flights now seems to be a recurring promotion from the airline! Last seen early in the spring the offer has returned for the latter half of the summer! This offer is available for TAP's flights out of Montreal and Toronto - and the rest of their worldwide network.

Visa Infinite and Visa Infinite Privilege cardholders now receive automatic RSVP Rewards Elite Status

Visa Canada has a new partnership with one of our home grown hotel programs, RSVP Rewards. RSVP Rewards is the relatively new program for Canada's Sandman Hotels and The Sutton Place Hotels. Outside of coverage on Rewards Canada the year old program has gone relatively unnoticed but with this new partnership it has definitely been brought into the spotlight. 

Get free IHG One Rewards Platinum Status to try for 120 days and then keep that status or get Diamond status when you complete IHG stays

IHG recently revamped their frequent guest program which included a new name, IHG One Rewards. Now, they want members from other hotel programs to come give them a shot with a status offer and status challenge. 

You can secure and maintain your 2023 Air Canada Elite Status with credit card spend

If you are currently an Air Canada Aeroplan Elite Status holder but may end up being shy of maintaining that status for 2023 you now have another avenue for retaining it! Aeroplan announced a new promotion today where you will be able to secure and maintain your status for 2023 simply by earning enough points on any Aeroplan credit card. 

Japan's ANA All Nippon Airways are offering a status match in their Mileage Club program (s/b guaranteed matches for AA, DL, JL elite members)

 

Earlier this week Loyalty Lobby reported about a new elite status match offer from Japan's ANA All Nippon Airways Mileage Club. This status match is open to Canadian residents excluding those in Quebec who hold status with American Airlines, Delta, or  JAL Japan Airlines. They will potentially match other non Star Alliance airlines as well based on an 'other airline' option on the application form. The status match will see eligible elite members from other airlines receive Mileage Club Bronze or Platinum status and if you happen to get Mileage Club Platinum that means you'll have Star Alliance Gold status. For a lot of Canadians it will beg the question if ANA will match WestJet Gold or Platinum status because then you'd have ANA status that you can utilize if and when you fly on Air Canada.

Air Canada Aeroplan Accelerate Your Way to Status - Flight bonus extended for travel to Europe

Back at the start of February Air Canada Aeroplan came out with an awesome promotion to earn extra elite status miles, spend and segments for flying, shopping, linking accounts and more. This promotion called Accelerate Your Way status promotion is set to wrap up at the end of this month however one portion of it has just received an extension.

Air Canada Aeroplan Accelerate Your Way to Status - new elite status head start offers

 

One of the many things that Air Canada's Aeroplan has done well during the course of the past years during the pandemic is provide no shortage of offers for members to earn, keep and even extend their elite status. Today the program revealed three more offers that will help members get a boost to their elite status qualification for 2023.

Radisson Rewards Americas Double Elite Status credit on all stays until April 30

Radisson Rewards is just doling out the offers right now – we’ve had a trio of offers from the the Worldwide site and now today they bring us this offer for Radisson Rewards Americas The next three and half months all members in the Americas program will automatically earn double night/stay credit on all eligible stays including award nights. 

Earning Stories: An elite status boost and nearly 20,000 bonus points thanks to Aeroplan's credit card promos

Welcome to the latest edition of Earning Stories where we showcase real life achievements of promotions and offers that we publish here on Rewards Canada. In this edition long time Rewards Canada reader and contributor Dee shared with us his recent account updates from Aeroplan showing the fulfillment of a trio of awesome promotions that tied into his TD^® Aeroplan^® Visa Infinite Privilege* Card

Receive IHG Rewards Platinum Elite Status after staying only 5 nights (Fast Track offer)

IHG Rewards has brought back their fast track offer to elite status that we saw during the last half of 2020 and for most of 2021. They did make one small change to the offer – they got rid of the 2 nights for Gold Status that we saw with the previous offers. This version is strictly complete 5 nights in 90 days to receive Platinum Status.

It’s back – you can buy oneworld elite status with Finnair’s latest buy points offer

Finnair has brought back their best ever buy points bonus and since the airline is part of the oneworld alliance this offer may be of use to some oneworld flyers. This buy points bonus has two parts to it – the first is your standard bonus on the points you buy, which in this case is anywhere from 0% to 100% and the second is the awarding of elite qualifying tier points on those purchases as well. They’ve also upped the maximum you can buy this year to 200,000 points from the previous 150,000. This offer is available until December 27, 2021

Frontier Airlines: Elite Status Match from 15 airlines including Air Canada & WestJet plus 15 hotel programs

 
Frontier Airlines has brought back their very wide open status match opportunity that we saw in 2020. The airline has partnered with statusmatch.com to run the match again this year and it’s quite an easy one. The airline will match your status from 15 different airline or 15 different hotel programs. Both Air Canada and WestJet elite status is included. It’s pretty rare for an airline to match a hotel status, I believe WestJet Rewards was one of the first to do so back in 2016 (read about that here) however that required one flight. With Frontier’s offer there is no flight requirement. You simply have to pay a $49 processing fee for your status match and apply by December 21, 2021

Earn 50% bonus elite qualifying Flying Blue XP on all Air France & KLM flights for the first half of 2022

 
For the last half of this year Air France KLM’s Flying Blue has been awarding Double XP Elite Status credits on all their flights. This is something we have seen from numerous airlines in 2020 and 2021. From Alaska Airlines to Emirates to SAS and other airlines, these promotions are helping flyers achieve or retain status sooner due to most of them flying less during the pandemic. However not many airlines have revealed their plans for doing something similar into 2022. In fact prior to this new offer only SAS' systemwide elite earning bonus trickled into January. Now we have Air France KLM announcing they will award 50% bonus XP elite status credits on all eligible flights during the first half of 2022. This includes their flights to and from Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. While it may not be as big of bonus as we've seen here in 2021 it's great to see them offer something and also hints at the industry starting to rebound slowly. Now I wonder if Alaska and some of the others will extend or put out new offers as well!

Air Canada Aeroplan status match for U.S. residents

 
Here's a great offer for our U.S. readers! Today Air Canada Aeroplan in conjunction with Destination Canada and Statusmatch.com have launched a status match offer for those who hold status with any one of six select U.S. airline programs. Once matched the member will receive status until the end of 2021 and then if they complete one round trip flight with Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge or Air Canada Express by January 15, 2022 they will keep the status until the end of 2022.

Want to leverage your airline or hotel elite status into other programs? Check out this new service!

Did you know that once you have earned elite status with an airline or hotel you can typically leverage it to obtain status with other airlines and hotels? This topic of elite status matching is one we cover with some regular frequency here on Rewards Canada - whether its reporting on new status match offers or showing you how some of them work. Some elite status matches are easier than others, in particular hotel program matches, these are usually easier to come by than airline matches with the easiest being Best Western's famous Status Match No Catch offer. It is the airline side that can prove to be more difficult and that's where statusmatch.com comes in. This new company co-founded by a former frequent flyer program head, a frequent flyer program director and the creator and operator of frequent flyer program will represent you and your status to other airlines in your quest to obtain additional elite membership.

Receive elite status with Sixt rent a car when you have status with any number of airline or hotel programs

 

I feel like I may have written about this offer briefly many years ago but I can't seem to find where I wrote about so just in case I didn't write about it here it is! This is a nice and easy status match offer that can be put to use if you will be renting a car outside of Canada. Germany's Sixt rent a car provides a status match program for many of their airline and hotel partners. If you hold status with Lufthansa's Miles & More, American AAdvantage, Marriott Bonvoy or numerous other programs you can receive Sixt Gold or Platinum status.

Earn Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Elite Status & Star Alliance Gold Status from home

 

In a move that is very similar to Air Canada Aeroplan's Travel at Home campaign from spring 2020, Singapore Airlines has revealed a new promotion where you can earn elite status with their KrisFlyer program without even setting foot on a plane. With this promotion you have the ability to get yourself KrisFlyer Silver or Gold Elite status which translate to Star Alliance Silver or Gold status respectively. 

Aeroplan extending elite status to 2022, providing an elite jump start program for 2022 and further extending the pause on points expiry

 
We've said it before and we'll say it again - Air Canada's Aeroplan has been one of the most proactive, member oriented and rewarding loyalty programs during this pandemic and today's news from them just builds on that.

Aeroplan let us know that they will provide an automatic extension of Aeroplan Elite status, they are instituting an elite status jump start program and are further extending the pause on points expiry.