March 2 Update: Last day to grab the 3,000 mile offer on the American Express Platinum AIR MILES Credit Card & a new Amex Offer for mobile service providers

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.

 
If you have had your eye on the American Express Platinum AIR MILES Credit Card you should grab it today as we just learned it is the last day for the 3,000 Reward Miles welcome bonus. As of tomorrow it will revert to its standard bonus. You can apply for the card here.

Earn up to 5x AIR MILES when you use your BMO AIR MILES card for purchases at the Sobeys family of grocery stores

Today is the BMO change over day for the new card offers and one of them that launched today that is good for both existing and new card members is this one for their AIR MILES cards:

Get topped up to 5x the AIR MILES Reward Miles on groceries until May 31, 2021.Use any BMO AIR MILES credit card with your AIR MILES Card when you shop at Sobeys, Safeway, Foodland & Participating Co-op’s, Urban Fresh, Thrifty Foods, IGA, Les Marchés Traditions and Rachelle Béry.

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

 
Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Travel Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of March 2021! This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards 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

March 1 Update: Last day to grab higher welcome offers on three BMO cards, WestJet $0 companion voucher good for almost two years, Hugo Boss returns to Amex Offers

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.

Today is the last day to grab the increased welcome offers on the following BMO credit cards. All o

• BMO Rewards® Business Mastercard®
• BMO World Elite™* MasterCard®*
• BMO Rewards® MasterCard

All of the above cards will have lower welcome offers as of tomorrow.

New increased welcome offers for the Scotia Momentum Visa card & Scotia Momentum No-Fee Visa card

 
The third and final increased welcome bonuses we see from Scotia today comes on their lower end cash back Scotia Momentum Visa cards. The Scotia Momentum® Visa* card sees a new welcome offer of 7.5% cash back on the first $2,000 of spending and the Scotia Momentum® No-Fee Visa* card which sees 5% cash back on the first $2,000 in spending. Both cards also retain their introductory balance transfer interest rates of 2.99% and 7.99% respectively. Those are some pretty solid bonuses for lower end and entry level cards. Here are the top level details of each card:

The welcome bonus for the Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card sees a 10,000 point boost to 30,000 points

Next up in Scotia's updates for today is a new increased welcome bonus offer for the Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card. This new offer sees the welcome bonus boosted by 10,000 points. You will now earn 30,000 bonus Scotia Rewards points when you spend $1,000 on the card in the first three months of having the card. They do advertise the offer as up to 40,000 points as that includes the annual bonus of 10,000 points if you spend $40,000 on the card annually. 

Earn 5x points on all purchases made via the Aeroplan eStore until March 3

 
For the next three days Aeroplan will be awarding 5x points for all online purchases made via the Aeroplan eStore. You'll be able to earn the bonus for purchases at over 150 retailers and don't forget about each retailers own loyalty programs as you can earn points in those as well with these purchases. Whether it's Chapter Indigo's Plum Rewards or Lego Points - you name it you'll also earn those points. 

Learn more about this offer here.

 

New increased welcome bonus for the Scotiabank Gold American Express card of up to 40,000 Scotia Rewards points

 
A lot of our readers ask us frequently as to whether Scotia will provide a boosted welcome offer on one of their best cards, the Scotiabank Gold American Express card. Well we are happy to tell that as of today the card sees that increase! The initial welcome bonus is seeing a boost of 5,000 points to 30,000 when you spend $1,000 on the card in the first three months of having it. Then if you can spend $7,500 within the first year (I know for a lot of our readers that's easily achievable) you'll receive 10,000 more points! The card does have a $120 annual fee which you do have to pay in the first year. This new welcome bonus of 40,000 points is worth $400 towards any travel but we'll value it at $280 since you do have to pay that annual fee right away.

Podcast Episode 77 - BMO, what are you doing?

In this episode we discuss all the changes BMO Bank of Montreal is making to more than a half dozen cards they issue. One change is the bright light shining through an opening in an otherwise overcast sky. We discuss all the changes the good, the bad and the ugly. We delve into how their new eclipse Visa cards are being devalued less than six months after being introduced and how all the other BMO cards are affected. We quickly jump into what it means for our market and now promise to have future podcasts with a happier news!

AIR MILES to lose LCBO as a partner as of March 31st

 

A tip of the hat to Anshul at Points, Miles & Bling for alerting us on Twitter to this latest development for the AIR MILES program. One of their longest standing partnerships is coming to an end on March 31 as LCBO will be leaving the program. For 23 years members in Ontario have been able to rack up miles and sometimes tons of miles for the liquor purchases at LCBO locations.