AIR MILES and BMO have once again sent out a teaser email about the return of the AIR MILES Bonus Boom. Bonus Boom seemed to take a slight break over the summer as the last one ended on June 30 with no bonus in July which ended the monthly streak of this promotion.nce again it will be the standard 95 bonus AIR MILES Reward Miles when you utilize offers from three different partners between August 26 and September 8.
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Preferred Hotels Group has updated the elite status offering in their I Prefer program. The program used to be a two tier system but as of August 1st they added a middle tier between the base level Insider and the only elite tier aptly called Elite. The new tier is called Explorer and it will require 25,000 points to achieve while Elite will remain at 50,000 points. They also appear to be adding more benefits to the elite level tiers with the top Elite level now receiving a food & beverage offering and a digital anniversary gift.
Time for another bonus for your online back to school shopping! This time we have AIR MILES shops providing a site wide bonus offer! That bonus is 7x the rewards miles on all eligible purchases made by August 16.
Earlier in the week we brought you the updated card offers on Amex's five consumer cards that were part of their previous best ever offers and now here are the details of the two business cards that were also part of that previous promotion. The two small business cards are the American Express® Aeroplan®* Business Reserve Card and the Marriott Bonvoy™ Business American Express® Card
with the Aeroplan card seeing a new offer while the Marriott card's offer has been extended. The latter card is the only one that retains the best ever offering that we saw for those five or so weeks of Amex running that promotion.
I feel like I may have written about this offer briefly many years ago but I can't seem to find where I wrote about so just in case I didn't write about it here it is! This is a nice and easy status match offer that can be put to use if you will be renting a car outside of Canada. Germany's Sixt rent a car provides a status match program for many of their airline and hotel partners. If you hold status with Lufthansa's Miles & More, American AAdvantage, Marriott Bonvoy or numerous other programs you can receive Sixt Gold or Platinum status.
The best ever American Express card offers are done and gone now however several of the cards that were part of that amazing promotion do retain higher that normal welcome offers. Those cards are The Platinum Card®, American Express® Aeroplan®* Card and the American Express® Aeroplan®* Reserve Card. Both of the Marriott cards and the AIR MILES Reserve card drop down to their standard bonuses of 50,000 points and 2,400 AIR MILES respectively. So let's take a look at the cards that do retain elevated welcome bonuses:
This post is for our readers from the U.S. and of course for our Canadian readers who play the U.S. credit card game!
In December 2020 Air Canada Aeroplan and Chase announced they would be launching a new partnership in 2021 that would see Chase issue an Aeroplan co-brand credit card for the U.S. market and see Aeroplan become a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards. It is the latter that officially kicks off today as Aeroplan is now part of Chase Ultimate Rewards. While the co-brand card hasn't been released just yet they have opened up a special wait list offer for it that you can register for starting today.
Be sure to login to your RBC account right away to load these offers (if required) or get the promo codes if required. Personally I received these offers on the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard but I know most if not all should also available for RBC's most popular card the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card and most other RBC cards.
