Thursday, November 12, 2020

November 12 Update: Take heed if you are planning travel to Hawaii, Preferred Hotel Group iPrefer extends elite status & points expiry, Bonus More Rewards points at Panago

 

Travel to Hawaii - will it happen for Canadians any time soon? Long time Rewards Canada reader Peter K emailed us about traveling to Hawaii and the requirements to enter. Peter did some behind the scenes legwork and here is what the sent me:

Best ever welcome bonus for the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard - 450 WestJet dollars with $5,000 spend in 3 months


We said the market would heat up in Canada when the new Air Canada Aeroplan program launches and for the most part that has now been the case for a few months. We've already seen the amazing offer for the HSBC World Elite Mastercard that came out in September, the statement credit boost on the MBNA Alaska Airlines Mastercard and of course now we've seen all the welcome bonuses on the new Aeroplan cards. So it's no wonder that we're seeing more boosted offers come out and the latest to be revealed today is this one for the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Save up to 22% with Hyatt’s Dream Away and Get Away promotion

 


Hyatt launched a new sale that provides a nice discount offer their standard rates while providing peace of mind to those who book the special offer rate. The Dream Away and Get Away offer provides a 20% discount for non-members and a 22% discount for World of Hyatt members who book by December 6 for stays until April 4, 2021. This offer also provides further flexibility as you can cancel at no charge up to 24 hours before scheduled arrival. Additionally, Hyatt’s continued top priority for welcoming guests and colleagues back to its properties is doing so with safety and wellbeing top of mind through Hyatt’s multi-layered Global Care & Cleanliness Commitment, further enhancing its operational guidance and resources around colleague and guest safety. 

November 11 Update: Only a few days left to get the 10% cash back bonus on CIBC Dividend cards, AIR MILES Shop the Block returns next week, big bonuses for online shopping from the U.S.



There is less than one week left to grab the CIBC Dividend Visa Infinite or the CIBC Dividend Platinum Visa Cards with their 10% cash back welcome bonus. To get in on the offer you'll need to apply by November 16. Check out our CIBC page for details on these cards.

A guide to the new Air Canada Aeroplan program flight reward redemption process


 We continue with our coverage of the new Air Canada Aeroplan program today with a look at the new redemption process. This post is an overview of that process and will not be a deep dive into comparing the redemption rates. Rather we'll follow up with another post delving deeper into various bookings and comparing them - for example a basic member without an Aeroplan credit card versus an Elite member with an Aeroplan card and so on.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Podcast Episode 72 - The New Air Canada Aeroplan Program

 


Episode 72 - November 10, 2020
The New Air Canada Aeroplan Program

In this episode we discuss the highly anticipated and long awaited new Air Canada Aeroplan program. We talk about the new dashboard, redemptions, credit cards, the new Buddy Pass on the credit cards and much more. Plus we discuss our contest to celebrate the launch of the program!

Enter to win one of three prizes of 25,000 Points as Rewards Canada celebrates the launch of the new Air Canada Aeroplan program!

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED - THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ENTERED! 

The new Aeroplan program is officially up and running and to celebrate the launch Rewards Canada has teamed up with Air Canada once again to offer our readers a chance to win some points! All we can say is that we here at Rewards Canada super excited for the launch of the new Aeroplan!

There is so much to the new Aeroplan program that we have already written quite a few posts about it and will have even more over the next few days and weeks! So to make it easier to find them all they are listed on the following resource page:

The New Air Canada Aeroplan Program All the resources you need

Be sure to check it out and bookmark it so that you can check it often for anything new that we post. 

Now onto the fun part - the contest!

Monday, November 9, 2020

New Amex Offers for Marriott, Wayfair, Cobs Bread and Tiffany & Co.

 Four new Amex Offers offers came out today that are available on a few Amex Cards including those issued by Scotia. Seems like quite a few different cards are eligible for the offers and thanks again to Rewards Canada contributor Jeff W. who let us know he received some of these offers on his Marriott Bonvoy American Express card and Scotiabank Gold American Express Card.

The offers are as follows:

A quick look at the new Air Canada Aeroplan dashboard

With the new Aeroplan program now live the first thing you'll see when you log in is an option for a tutorial about their new dashboard. I took screenshots of the tutorial as I choose to see what is new on the site:

The New Air Canada Aeroplan program is now live

 

It’s finally here - after more than three years the new Air Canada Aeroplan is now live. What follows is a recap of the what the new program entails as we originally published back in August.  As you may have seen over the weekend all the new credit card welcome bonuses were revealed here on Rewards Canada and then as the week goes on you can expext more articles looking at the ins and outs of the program as we now to get experience it all live. As always we welcome your feedback, comments and questions in the comment section below. Feel free to let us know how things go for you when playing around on their new site - if you find some amazing sweet spots, program anomalies (both good and bad) and anything else you deem worthy of being mentioned!