June 28 Update: Hilton Honors adds daily F&B credit instead of complimentary breakfast in the U.S. and Air Canada is testing a COVID-19 results option in their app

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! 

 Hilton Honors will be doing away with the complimentary continental breakfast MyWay benefit for Gold and Diamond members that stay in the U.S. They will be replacing it with a daily food and beverage credit that can be used for any F&B purchases any time of day. The credit will range from $10 to $25 depending on the Hilton brand and location and is good for the Gold or Diamond member plus one additional guest meaning you could get up to a $50 daily food and beverage credit. This new MyWay benefit will start at the beginning of July and run through to December 31, 2021 at more than 1,500 locations in the U.S. Learn more here. 

Amex Shop Small promotion returns for the summer - earn up to $50 in statement credits nationwide!

 
What a great time it is to be an American Express cardmember! They launched some of their best ever bonuses last week. They are providing some of the best accelerated earn offers for existing cardmembers and now American Express Canada's awesome Shop Small offer is back for the summer as well! The great news with Shop Small is that you can still get in on it if you get yourself an American Express right now as this offer runs until August 23 and it is open to all cardmembers - new or existing. 

AIR MILES Shops - Earn 5x miles site wide for your online shopping until July 1

 

If you haven't had enough of online shopping just yet then this week is another good one to get some done and rack up some bonus miles. AIR MILES is offering 5x miles site wide on AIR MILES Shops purchases made by July 1.

June 25 Update: WestJet adding 10+ new routes within Canada, Amex Shop Small returns soon & Air Canada's amazing new safety video

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! 

 
WestJet announced the return of many of their flights within Canada today - so much so that it's too much to list here. On top of so many domestic flights restarting they have also announced a slew of new routes within Canada seeing that most Canadians will still only be traveling domestically this summer. Here are the new routes that will be starting up:

Big Changes to the MBNA Rewards World Elite Mastercard - now earns 5 points per dollar in select categories + 10% annual bonus points

 
File this one into the category of "nobody saw this one coming"- well until we were notified about two weeks ago and then when the details were leaked onto Red Flag Deals a few days ago. The next bank to be making some major changes this week is TD's subsidiary MBNA. Today they are officially announcing changes to their premium proprietary rewards card product the MBNA Rewards World Elite® Mastercard®. There are also some slight changes happening to this card's entry level partner the MBNA Rewards Platinum Plus® Mastercard® which I'll touch upon towards the end of the article.

Radisson Rewards offering double elite status stays/nights for 2021

 The new Radisson Reward Americas program will be awarding double elite stays/nights to all members for all of 2021. Although just announced they will be crediting it for stays right from the beginning of January to the end of December. All stays worldwide that were made up to June 16th will count and then due to the splitting of the programs and the launch of Radisson Rewards Americas on June 17th only stays in the Americas count from that day to the end of 2021.

Earn Double Flying Blue Miles on all Air France & KLM flights out of Canada (Targeted offer)

 

Here is a targeted offer I received in my email earlier in the week that is for double Flying Blue Miles across the entire Air France KLM network. The link to register only works from the email, the link below is only for informational purposes. You’ll have to check your in box (be sure to check your spam folder) to see if you have received this offer as well.

June 23 Update: Airline & Hotel loyalty programs that you can earn miles or points with credit cards updated, WestJet everywhere sale & save at 99 Marriott Hotels in Canada

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 have updated our Complete list of Airline & Hotel loyalty programs that you can earn miles or points in with Canadian Credit Cards due to the changes in the Hilton Honors program we let you know about a few weeks ago (Read about that here). Gone completely off the list are Finnair Plus, Garuda Indonesia GarudaMiles and Philippine Airlines Mabuhay. There a no Canadian credit cards that will now provide an avenue to earning points or miles with those three programs. There are still well over 60 airline and hotel programs that you can earn with though! See the feature here.

Earn 2x points for stays at Radisson Hotels in Canada and the rest of the Americas

The first promotion for the recently split Radisson Rewards program launched this week. This offer is for the Radisson Hotels Americas programs and offers double points on all stays in the U.S., Canada, Latin America & Caribbean. The offer runs until September 12 and does require registration (See link below) and doubles the base earn rate from 20 points per dollar spent to 40 points.  Although it seem like countries are opening up to vaccinated Canadians every day I would believe for most Canadians these points will be earned domestically for stays at one of the chains 26 locations from coast to coast.

June 22 Update: New Ivanhoe gift card Amex Offer and the Centurion Lounge opens up at New York La Guardia

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! 

Another gift card Amex Offer came out this week and it is the return of the statement credit offer for buying gift cards to use at malls operated by Ivanhoe. I received the offer on my n Platinum Card but be sure to check all your cards to see if you received it as well.