Right now there are two RBC credit card welcome bonus offers that provide the potential to come out with at least 700 WestJet dollars for as little as $240 in annual fees and purchases. The two cards are the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard and the RBC Avion Visa Infinite card.
After spending most of 2020 supporting existing customers we can say 2021 is the year American Express is back in the game for acquiring new customers! We've seen increased welcome offers on the American Express Cobalt™ Card (now gone) The Platinum Card®, the Choice Card from American Express™ (now gone) as well as offers on the SimplyCash™ Preferred Card from American Express and the SimplyCash™ Card from American Express. Of course we also saw increased welcome bonuses for the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card, the Marriott Bonvoy™ Business American Express® Card come out earlier this year to which this post is a reminder of the amazing offers on these two Marriott cards!
I am on my first Air Canada flight of 2021 and was booked on Air Canada’s newest aircraft, the A220-200. For this flight I was able to upgrade to Business Class which on this aircraft is 3 rows, 12 seats.
On top of the earlier news of WestJet providing up to 2x qualifying spend on WestJet flights, the airline also announced today that they are going to extend current member's elite status to December 31, 2022.
Another summer hotel promotion to take into account for your travels across Canada!
Wyndham Rewards summer promotion is here and it is similar to their offer seen last fall in that it provides 6,500 bonus points which when added to your base earn will provide at least 7,500 points which is enough for a free night at a good selection of their hotels. You can earn the bonus up to three times which you boost you free night options even further as the next redemption level is 15,000 points followed by 30,000. The main difference between the last promo and this one is that this time you have to complete stays of two or more consecutive nights whereas the old promotion was for two separate stays.
Offer details:
Earn 6,500 Bonus Wyndham Rewards Points when you complete a stay of two
consecutive nights at participating Wyndham Rewards Hotels Worldwide.
Bonus can be earned up to 3 times. Full details, online registration & booking. (Registration is required) Valid for stays until Sep 6, 21
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 70,000 bonus points and no annual fee in the first year!
We've bumped up our valuation of Aeroplan points to 1.5 cents per points from 1.2 cents per point. We have used that 1.2 benchmark for some time now as the lowest value you should get when redeeming for an economy class ticket. Recently in some of our searches we are finding any tickets that low anymore. In fact they are running with much better values so it seems time to boost that rate! We don't publish a set chart of valuations but we do use them in a lot of our calculations on the website and for the value of credit card welcome offers and earn rates. Learn more about the new Aeroplan program here.
Air Canada and Marriott have joined forces to present a Flash Sale that offers discounts on flights and hotel stays within Canada. This sale is available until June 6 for travel right through to the end of 2021. The Marriott offer is good for stays at 224 of their hotels in Canada and the Air Canada offer is good for all flights across Canada.