March 21 Update: Marriott back on top for Starwood takeover, last day to book American AAdvantage awards at old rates, CIBC Cash Back card offer

News, Tips & Tricks
Wow the Starwood sale saga sure is exciting! News broke this weekend that Marriott made a counter offer to Anbang's offer that Starwood accepted last week and this new Marriott offer has now been accepted by Starwood! Now we wait to see if Anbang will coutner the counter offer! (Source Reuters)

Today is the last day to book American AAdvantage award tickets at lower ticket levels for most flight options for Canadians! As we detailed in our post back in November American Airlines announced a big change to the AAdvantage program in 2016 and the award ticket portion kicks in tomorrow. Here some excerpts from our post:

"The good news is that AAdvantage is keeping award charts like United and unlike Delta who no longer publishes award charts as their awards are dynamically priced. The other good news is that we have four months noticed for the effective changes to AAdvantage award flights. Those changes will come to be on March 22, 2016.

Keeping with the good news they are introducing new short haul awards, 7,500 miles one way for flights under 500 miles. This is inline with the new British Airways requirement of 7,500 miles for flights under 600 miles in North America.

Now onto the bad news for us Canucks, they are increasing the amount of miles required for travel between Canada and the U.S. over 500 miles.  The current chart has MileSAAver awards at the standard 25,000 miles round trip (12,500 one way) but on March 22 that moves to 30,000 miles or 15,000 one way for Economy Class. Business Class moves to 60,000 round trip or 30,000 one way....

....For Economy Class this is now more than Aeroplan, United and British Airways (in most cases) while in Business this now matches the Aeroplan requirement that kicks in on December 15th.

Some other major changes:
Canada to Europe moves from 50,000 miles each way in business class to 62,500!! This matches Air France KLM Flying Blue's requirement. Economy Class only sees a mild increase of 2,500 miles each way.

Canada to Asia 1 in First Class moves from 62,500 to 85,000 miles while Canada to Asia 2 jumps from 67,500 miles to 112,500 miles each way in first class!!

The move of AA to separate Canada from the typically seen US/Canada category in award charts hurts us up North here more so than those in the lower 48 whose increases are a hard pill to swallow but are less than what us Canadians will feel!"

Air Canada today announced it will offer satellite connectivity on international flights so customers can email, surf the internet and stream entertainment at broadband speeds while flying anywhere in the world. (Source Air Canada)

We were on the Informed Traveler radio show yesterday discussing the AIR MILES expiry topic. You can listen to the piece here. (Don't flame me yet as I have yet to listen to it!) You can read our piece on AIR MILES expiry here. One reader in our comments stands to lose 25,000+ miles later this year. Let's help them out to see where they can use the miles or should they get the Amex Reserve with Onyx status to save their miles!

The CIBC Dividend® Visa Infinite Card is first year free right now and will award you with 4% cash back on all purchases (limited to $5,000 in spend or 180 days) if you apply by March 31! Find out more here.

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Bonus Offers
AIR MILES (Canada)
- 40 Bonus AIR MILES Reward Miles on Budget rentals of 3 or more days at participating Canada and U.S. locations. More... Until May 31, 16

Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- 500 Bonus Mileage Plan Miles on rentals of 3 or more consecutive days at participating Avis airport locations in the U.S. and Canada. More... Until Dec 31, 16

Avianca LifeMiles
- Earn up to 4,000 Bonus LifeMiles when you earn LifeMiles from various non-airline partners. More... Until May 31, 16

Cathay Pacific Asia Miles
- Earn up to Triple Asia Miles for stays at Accor Hotels Worldwide. More... Until May 15, 16

Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles (on FrequentFlyerBonuses.com only)
- 1,000 bonus HawaiianMiles on rentals of 5 or more days at participating Avis airport locations in the U.S. (including Hawaii) and Canada More... Until Sep 30, 16
- 500 Bonus HawaiianMiles on qualifying rentals of 3 or more days at participating Budget airport locations in the U.S. (including Hawaii) and Canada. More... Until Sep 30, 16
- Quadruple HawaiianMiles and save up to 35% on any rental at participating Hertz airport and off airport locations in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico & Mexico. More... Until Apr 30, 16
- Triple HawaiianMiles on rentals of a compact car or larger vehicle for two days or longer at all worldwide Thrifty Car Rental locations. More... Until Apr 30, 16

Marriott Rewards
- 1,000 Bonus Rewards Points when you stay on Thursday-Sunday nights (Friday or Saturday required at the Turnberry Isle Miami, Autograph Collection. More... Until May 15, 16
- 1,000 Bonus Rewards Points per stay including a Sunday night at the Courtyard Harrisburg West/Mechanicsburg. More... Until May 15, 16
- 1,000 Bonus Rewards Points per stay on Thursday-Sunday nights (Friday or Saturday required) at The Inn at Opryland, A Gaylord Hotel. More... Until May 15, 16
- 3,000 Bonus Rewards Points per stay including any night Monday-Wednesday at the TownePlace Suites Seattle South/Renton. More... Until May 15, 16

Turkish Miles&Smiles
- Triple Miles&Smiles Miles for stays at the San Clemente Palace Kempinski Venice More... Apr 1 - May 31, 16
- Double Miles&Smiles Miles for stays at Kempiski Hotels Worldwide.More... Apr 1 - May 31, 16

Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
- Double Flying Club Miles for stays at the Virgin Hotel Chicago. More... Book by Jun 30 for stays Apr 27 - Oct 31, 16

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March 18 Update: Starwood Hotels accepts Chinese firm's bid, Aeroplan Carlson Hotels Bonus, Earn a Free SPG award night with Design Hotels

News, Tips & Tricks
Starwood Hotels has decided to accept the new bid for them from the Chinese firm Anbang that we told you about not too long ago! This is huge news as for months we have been talking about Marriott's takeover of Starwood. It isn't over for Marriott however, they have 5 days to make a counter bid for Starwood and speculation is that they will come up with a new offer! Those loyal to Starwood and more importantly the Starwood Preferred Guest program will be keeping a close on this and keeping their fingers crossed that Starwood goes with Anbang as the beloved SPG would remain and not be integrated into Marriott Rewards, I know that's what I'm hoping for! (Source CNBC)

To further promote the integration of Design Hotels into Starwood and SPG, you can earn a Category 1-5 free night award for completing three nights at Design Hotels. The nights do not need to be consecutive and once achieved you'll get the free night award that you can use at any Category 1 to 5 hotel (try for 5 of course!) until September 30th. Find out more here

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Bonus Offers
Aegean Miles&Bonus
- 30% Miles&Bonus Discount on select award tickets within Greece and between Greece and Europe, the Middle East or Africa. More... Until May 31, 16

Air Canada / Aeroplan
- Earn up to 5,000 Aeroplan Miles when you stay at participating Radisson, Country Inns & Suites By Carlson, and Park Inn by Radisson hotels in Canada. More... Until May 31, 15

Bangkok Airways FlyerBonus (on FrequentFlyerBonuses.com only)
- 8x FlyerBonus Points for stays of 2 or more nights at the Burasari Heritage Luang Prabang or the Burasari Phuket. More... Until Apr 30, 16

IHG Rewards Club
- Earn up to 30,000 Bonus IHG Rewards Club points when you stay at participating InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza®, Hotel Indigo®, Holiday Inn®, Holiday Inn Express® and Staybridge Suites® hotels and resorts across Asia Pacific (excluding China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), Middle East and Africa. More... Targted offer - May not work for everyone Until Aug 31, 16

Shangri-La Golden Circle
- Double GC Award Points for stays at the Midtown Shangri-La, Hangzhou. More... Until May 31, 16

Spirit Airlines Free Spirit (on FrequentFlyerBonuses.com only)
- 750 Bonus Free Spirit Miles at participating Avis airport locations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. More... Until Dec 31, 16

Starwood Preferred Guest
- Earn a Free Night Award (up to Category 5) when you stay 3 nights at participating Design Hotels Worldwide. More... Register by May 16 for stays until May 31, 16

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March 17 Update: Diners Club Club Rewards Tailored Travel Credit devaluation, Accor Hotels Canada stay bonus and more

News, Tips & Tricks
Ouch, one of the cards that has been in my wallet the longest and one of my favourites is about to get devalued! The tailored travel credit for the Diners Club Club Rewards MasterCard is getting cut back. This is the book any travel and redeem points against the charge feature of the card. Granted to start with the rate was a 1.7% return which is lower than other cards out there with 2% however the card comes with an awesome airline lounge programs, costs less then those other cards and has one of the best CDW insurance coverages of any card out there as they don't put a dollar limit on cars (just types of cars like all others) so when we were in Maui last month our free upgrade to fully loaded Infiniti QX80 didn't concern me as Diners doesn't max out at $65,000 like other cards.

So what is the new tailored travel credit value? 1.5%. Not bad, kind of like the old TD First Class rate but now its a full half percent lower than major competitors. I need to decide whether it is worth it to keep this card after the change. Chances are I will as I can covert Club Rewards points to Alaska Airlines or British Airways or any one of their large list of airline and hotel programs plus the Diners Airport Lounge program has lounges not found with The Platinum Card from American Express or Priority Pass. This change takes effect on April 6th. So if you hold this card (there are still tens of thousands of you out there according to BMO) and wanted to redeem points for a travel charge do so by April 6th to get full value. Even if the charge was long ago as Diners gives you up to 12 months prior to redeem against so you can get the better value out now. Sad to see this change, how about the rest of you DC cardholders? What are your thoughts and are you going to keep the card after this?

In the bonus offers section we added a new Le Club accorhotels offer for up to triple points for stays in Canada and the U.S.. Remember Accor is the French hotel chain that is buying Canada's Fairmont Hotels. That integration hasn't happened yet so you can't earn this bonus at Fairmont Hotels but you can at any Accor Hotels in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Find out more here

Remember as well today is the last day to earn bonus Aeroplan miles for online bookings at AirCanada.com. You'll earn your share of 10 million Aeroplan miles (min. 500 awarded)

Posts since our last update:

• Earn up to 5,000 bonus Aeroplan Miles for stays at Carlson Rezidor hotels in Canada (Radisson, Country Inns, Park Inn)
  Offer Details Earn up to 5,000 Aeroplan Miles when you stay three times  at participating Radisson, Country Inns &…
• The Ultimate Cash Back Credit Card Portfolio
  In this feature of Rewards Canada' Ultimate Credit Card Portfolios we look at the ultimate one for earning cash back.…
• Reminder - AIR MILES Reward Miles start expiring at the end of this year, here's how you can find out just how many you stand to lose
  Over the past couple of days I have completed several media interviews about the AIR MILES Expiry rule and…

Travel Deals
Air Canada St. Patrick's day sale is on! Book by 11:59pm tonight to save on flights throughout most of this year. Find out more here

 


Bonus Offers
American AAdvantage
- Triple AAdvantage Miles for stays at La Quinta Inns and Suites in the U.S., Canada and Mexico More... Until Jun 30, 16

Emirates Skywards
- 50% Skywards Miles Discount on Economy Saver awards between select destinations Worldwide. More... Book by Mar 31 for flights Apr 13 - Jun 23, 16
- 25% Skywards Miles Discount on Business Class Saver awards from Europe and Dubai to selected destinations Worldwide More... Book by Mar 31 for flights Apr 13 - Jun 23, 16

Eurowings Boomerang Club (on FrequentFlyerBonuses.com only)
- Double Boomerang Miles when you fly between to/from Stockholm. More... Book by Mar 31 for travel until Apr 30, 16

Hilton HHonors
- Quadruple HHonors Points when you shop at Chic Outlet Shopping Villages in Europe. More... Until Apr 30, 16

JetBlue TrueBlue (on FrequentFlyerBonuses.com only)
- Triple TrueBlue Points for stays at La Quinta Inns and Suites in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.More... Until Jun 30, 16

Le Club accorhotels
- Earn up to Triple Le Club Accorhotels Points for stays at participating Accor Hotels in the U.S. or Canada. More... Book by May 15 for stays until May 31, 16
- Earn up to 1,500 Bonus Le Club accorhotels points for stays at participating Accor Hotels in France. More... Book by Jun 9 for stays Jun 10 - Jul 10, 16

Shangri-La Golden Circle
- 50% GC Award Points Discount on all standard room award night redemptions for stays at Shangri-La Hotels Worldwide. More... Book by Mar 31 for stays Apr 1 - May 31, 16

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Earn up to 5,000 bonus Aeroplan Miles for stays at Carlson Rezidor hotels in Canada (Radisson, Country Inns, Park Inn)

Offer Details
Earn up to 5,000 Aeroplan Miles when you stay three times  at participating Radisson, Country Inns & Suites By Carlson, and Park Inn by Radisson hotels in Canada. No registration is required. Simply provide your Aeroplan # at time of booking and check in. Book online at Radisson, Country Inns & Suites, or Park Inn Valid for stays until May 31, 15

The more you stay the more you earn.

Number of Stays	-	Number of Miles
First stay	-	Double Miles
Second Stay	-	Triple Miles
Third Stay	-	5 Times the Miles
Potential Total Miles	-	5,000 Miles

Terms and conditions:

• The 5,000 Offer ("Promotion") is available on new reservations at participating Radisson, Country Inns & Suites By Carlson and Park Inn by Radisson hotels in Canada (“Participating Properties”) for Eligible Stays with a check-in date beginning March 15, 2016 and completed by May 31, 2016 ("Promotional Period").
• An Eligible Stay is defined as a stay at an eligible rate of one or more nights at the same hotel regardless of the number of times you check-in or check-out during the stay. Ineligible rates under the Promotion include employee rates; airline crew rates; travel agent rates; hotel employee rates; tour operator rates; wholesaler rates; rates booked through online travel companies; complimentary rooms, including, but not limited to, rooms booked as Award Night stays, or other stays involving other gift certificate or free night vouchers.
• Members who provide their account number at the time of check-in can earn up to a maximum total of 5,000 miles for up to three Eligible Stay during the Promotional Period.
• Rates for each night may vary.
• Bonus miles are calculated on the standard per stay mileage award per hotel brand. Radisson standard mile award is 500 miles, Country Inn & Suites and Park Inn by Radisson standard mile award is 250 miles. Maximum number of bonus miles awarded during the Promotional Period per Aeroplan Member is 5,000 bonus miles.
• Guests will earn double miles with the first stay, triple miles with the second stay and five times the miles with the third stay.
• Offer subject to availability and blackout dates may apply.
• Participating Properties are subject to change without notice. Gold Points^® may not be earned for Eligible Stays under this Promotion.
• To the maximum extent permitted by law, Carlson Hotels, Inc. reserves the right to add, modify or discontinue these terms and conditions or the Promotion with or without notice.
• Void where prohibited by law. By participating in this Promotion, you agree and consent to these terms and conditions.
• Allow six (6) to eight (8) weeks for the miles to be posted to your account.
• Mileage is subject to all Aeroplan program rules and regulations.

The Ultimate Cash Back Credit Card Portfolio

In this feature of Rewards Canada' Ultimate Credit Card Portfolios we look at the ultimate one for earning cash back. We have always recommended that you should carry a Visa, a MasterCard and an American Express card in your wallet. 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 here we outline one card from each brand that will help you build up those cash back returns faster than ever. Ultimately there are various options that could be utilized for a cash back portfolio but we look at one card from each issuing family that won't totally break the bank on annual fees but will provide strong cash back earning along with very strong insurance benefits.

What is Rewards Canada's Ultimate Cash Back Credit Card Wallet? Read the complete article on the main Rewards Canada website to find out!

Reminder - AIR MILES Reward Miles start expiring at the end of this year, here's how you can find out just how many you stand to lose

Over the past couple of days I have completed several media interviews about the AIR MILES Expiry rule and how miles will begin expiring at the end of this year. This was all prompted by a CBC article that came out last week and follows up on the news we broke back in December of 2011 of the AIR MILES Expiry changes and more.

Fast forward to today where, even though we are only in March it may be time to start thinking about those miles you may lose. First off, you need to find out how many miles are set to expire on December 31st. Remember, AIR MILES technically has two expiry rules. The first is the inactivity rule which is that if you don't earn or burn at least 1 mile in your account within a 24 month period you'll lose your miles and the 5 year date stamp rule where miles expiry no matter what after 5 years.

UPDATE: Onyx Members are exempt from the 5 year date stamp rule. You receive Onyx status when you earn 6,000 or miles in a year or hold the American Express AIR MILES Reserve credit card

To find out how many miles are expiring you'll need to log in to your account on AirMiles.ca and click on 'View Transactions' under the Your Profile menu option in the upper right hand corner. You'll then have several tabs to click on:

Click on 'Request Expiry Statement" and you'll see your email address listed lower on the page and all you have to do is click 'submit request'

For me I received an email less than 24 hours later detailing the number of miles I stand to lose at the end of this year if I don't redeem them by then:

As you can see I will have 126 miles expiring. Not a huge amount but still something for me to think about. Now, I know there are some of you who have been collecting since 1992 like I have but have never redeemed, so you'll have a lot of miles that you stand to lose! Please oh please find a redemption for them. If it is travel, don't worry you don't have to travel this year, as long as you book by December 31st you can travel well into 2017! If travel isn't an option, go for gift cards, merchandise whatever, just don't lose those miles for absolutely nothing. You are better off with something than nothing!

After December 31st, miles will expiry quarterly from the quarter they were earned in 5 years prior, so you will always have to stay on top of your account and really keep an eye on those miles. Request the Expiry Statement often so that you know what miles are about to expire.

Ultimately I wish AIR MILES would have chosen to follow in Aeroplan's footsteps and gotten rid of the 'date stamp' feature on miles but they haven't. The thing is they still have time so maybe, just maybe that will happen. Not keeping my fingers crossed however. As a comparison, WestJet Rewards dollars also have a five year date stamp and some of those will be coming up for expiry in the next few years.

Related: Travel Hacking 102 - Earn up to 3,300 AIR MILES Rewards Miles for FREE with a potential value of over $1,000 in travel

Now onto a fun challenge
I would like all of our readers to go and get your mileage expiry statements, screenshot them and post it in the comments below. We can all then all work together to help with what redemptions you should think about if you don't have any ideas yet. Let us know with your screenshot if you are at a loss as to what to do or on the other hand let us know what you are planning to do with them! Also as part of the challenge let's try to see who has the most miles expiring! I know I won't win that one!


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March 16 Update: Ultimate Cash Back Credit Card Portfolio, Air France Paris sale from $699, Air Canada increases Delhi service

News, Tips & Tricks
Today we released our second Ultimate Credit Card Portfolio! This one looks at the Ultimate combination of a Amex, MasterCard and Visa Card for earning Cash Back. Click here to see our Ultimate Cash Back Credit Card portfolio. You can always check out our first portfolio, the Ultimate Aeroplan Credit Card Portfolio.

Air Canada's Delhi service must be doing well! Starting in October the flights will move to daily service from the current 4x weekly. (Source Airlineroute.net)



Posts since our last update:

• Earning Stories: Completing a Quadruple Dip for servicing our Toyota
  Welcome to the next post in the Earning Stories series right here on Rewards Canada. For years we have provided…
• Air Canada: Double Aeroplan Miles when flying on Brazil's GOL this April & May
  I can't recall the last time I saw an Aeroplan bonus for flying on an airline other than Air…
• Maui Bites: Eats and Treats on the Valley Isle
  The Rewards Canada family had a great Family Day vacation in one of our favourite go to locations for any…

Travel Deals
Air France has Paris on sale. Fly there from as little as $699. Book by Mar 31. Find out more here

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day which means KLM's Wild On Wednesday is none other than Dublin!  Montreal departures starting at $699. Toronto departures starting at $759. From Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton starting at $860! Book by Mar 17. Find out more here.

Bonus Offers
Air Canada / Aeroplan
- Double Aeroplan Miles on all routes and eligible booking classes for every one-way segment flown on GOL. More... Register by Apr 30 for travel Apr 1 - May 31, 16

Air France KLM Flying Blue
- 4,000 Bonus Flying Blue Miles on qualifying rentals of 4 days or more at participating locations in Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia, USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, St. Martin, Puerto Rico and Panama. More... Book by Apr 15 for rentals Apr 1 - Dec 31, 16
- Triple Flying Blue Miles on Europcar rentals Worldwide (except U.S. and Canada). More... Book by Mar 31 for rentals until Apr 17, 16
- Double Flying Blue Miles with a minimum spend of €400 at any Chic Outlet Shopping Villages in Europe. More... Until Apr 8, 16

Best Western Rewards
- Double Rewards Points on all qualifying stays at the BEST WESTERN Rives de Paris La Defense - Courbevoie. More... Until Jun 15, 16

Hilton HHonors
- 5,000 Bonus HHonors Points when you stay at least two nights at participating Waldorf Astoria™ Hotels & Resorts or Conrad® Hotels & Resorts. More... Until Apr 30, 16
- 2,000 Bonus HHonors Points PER NIGHT for stays at participating Waldorf Astoria™ Hotels & Resorts or Conrad® Hotels & Resorts. More... Until Apr 30, 16

La Quinta Returns
- Save up to 25% when you buy La Quinta Returns points online. More... Until Apr 22, 16
- 500 Bonus Returns Points on qualifying rentals of 3 days or more at participating locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. More... Until Sep 30, 16

Starwood Preferred Guest
- SPG Dashboard Bonuses and Offers - Earn bonus points for online bookings, referring friends and/or staying at multiple Starwood brands. Offers vary by member and by time. More... Ongoing
- 3,000 Bonus Starpoints for stays in a suite at the Plaza Athénée Bangkok, A Royal Méridien Hotel.  More... Ongoing

United MileagePlus
- 25% Bonus MileagePlus miles when you convert Marriott Rewards points to MileagePlus Miles. More... Until Mar 31, 16

Virgin Australia Velocity (on FrequentFlyerBonuses.com only)
- Double Velocity Points when you fly on Virgin Australia or Air New Zealand between Australia and New Zealand. More... Register and book by Mar 29 for travel Apr 1 - Sep 23, 16

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Earning Stories: Completing a Quadruple Dip for servicing our Toyota

Welcome to the next post in the Earning Stories series right here on Rewards Canada. For years we have provided you with the details on earning points and miles (both regular earning and bonus opportunities) and these stories show the actual offers in action.  
 
Late last year Aeroplan and Toyota announced a new partnership that went into effect in January. For the first two months of the partnership they ran a promotion to earn bonus Aeroplan miles on buying vehicles and also for servicing vehicles.  The offer for buying a vehicle has actually now been extended to March 31st with smaller bonuses but the service offer has ended.

Screenshot of the promotion that ended Feb 29

This earning story looks at earning on the service end. Rewards Canada owns a Toyota and it needed to go in for regular service in February. Perfect time to try out the new partnership! I noticed marketing of the new partnership all over the service department and when I paid for the service I provided my Aeroplan card. No inputting it into the computer. Instead the service rep had a form to  fill out putting down my name, the date, Aeroplan number and the amount of the service. Wow. Talk about old school! But maybe their systems hadn't been updated yet or they aren't planning on spending the money to do so. Why? Well despite being written down on a piece of paper, which always make me wary and wonder if the points will post (I never did ever get my UPS Store bonuses as they wrote my number down and said they would input it later - ya right!) however the miles posted quickly, within a couple days of the service in fact! So Toyota is on the ball unlike the UPS Stores. There was other good news as well. The Toyota dealership I go to also has their own rewards program and I thought by submitting my Aeroplan # I wouldn't get credit in the dealership program. Well I was wrong, I also got credit with them for the service! So this earning action was an actually a Quadruple Dip!

• 1st Dip: Dealership Program credit
• 2nd Dip: Base Aeroplan Miles credit
• 3rd Dip: Bonus Aeroplan Miles credit
• 4th Dip: Membership Rewards Points earned by paying with The Platinum Card from American Express.

Not a bad haul for a service that had to be performed no matter what!

Screenshot of the Aeroplan Miles (status earning) posting from Toyota

Air Canada: Double Aeroplan Miles when flying on Brazil's GOL this April & May

I can't recall the last time I saw an Aeroplan bonus for flying on an airline other than Air Canada, United or Bearskin Airlines! So when this offer came across my desk this morning I knew I had to post about it!

Offer details
Double Aeroplan Miles on all routes and eligible booking classes for every one-way segment flown on GOL. Register online (Registration is required) Register by Apr 30 for travel Apr 1 - May 31, 16