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

 
Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Travel Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of August 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 two first year free cards on the list.

Targeted Offer: Set up automatic payments on your TD Aeroplan Visa Card to earn up to 7,500 bonus points or up to a $100 statement credit

 

 Long time Rewards Canada reader Len D. forwarded an offer he received on his TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card at the end of July. This is a targeted offer so if you hold a TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card, TD Aeroplan Visa Platinum Card or the TD Aeroplan Visa Business Card check your email inbox to see if you have received this offer.

AIR MILES Bonus Boom returns on August 26 - earn 95 bonus miles when you use three different Bonus Boom offers

 

 

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.

August 6 Update: Preferred Hotels Group adds a new elite tier, Best Western & AIR MILES parted ways & another 5x Cobalt Multiplier in Calgary

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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.

Air Miles Shops Back to School Offer - 7x miles sitewide for your online shopping

 

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.

American Express Small Business Cards: A new offer on the Aeroplan Business Reserve

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.

WestJet to launch new non-stop flights between Calgary and Seattle

 
Earlier this week WestJet announced they will be launching new service between Calgary and Seattle starting on November 4. The route will initially be flown four times per week by WestJet Encore on their Q400 aircraft and eventually move to twice daily service by May 2022. The press release states there will be connection options via Seattle that they will release on a later date. Seeing that WestJet has a major partnership with Delta, and Seattle being a Delta hub in only makes sense that those connection options will be with Delta.

Receive elite status with Sixt rent a car when you have status with any number of airline or hotel programs

 

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.

New limited time welcome offers The Platinum Card from American Express and American Express Aeroplan cards

 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:

Aeroplan joins Chase Ultimate Rewards + a waitlist bonus for the new Chase Aeroplan Card (U.S. only)

 

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.