Which credit card earns the most Aeroplan Points? Version 2.1 (Updated)

 
There's a new card that has championed its way to being the one that earns the most Aeroplan points in Canada! Before we let you know which card it is let's step back into time - way back in 2012 we published a feature and infographic that compared how various credit and charge cards in Canada earned Aeroplan miles. Then in January of this year we released version 2.0 of that feature to capture the updated earn rates from the completely revamped suite of Aeroplan co-brand credit cards. Thanks to yet another credit card update earlier this month, namely points from the American Express Cobalt Card now being able to convert directly to Aeroplan that Which credit card earns the most Aeroplan Points feature also had to be updated!

AIR MILES Bonus Boom is now live - earn bonus miles with participating partners + 95 bonus miles with three different Bonus Boom offers

 

The latest AIR MILES Bonus Boom event kicked off today with your usual bunch of bonus miles offers for shopping or completing actions with various AIR MILES partners. Most of the bonuses are available between today and September 8 and once again if you use three different Bonus Boom offers you'll get 95 bonus AIR MILES. Just like the past few Bonus Boom events you have the ability to get the 95 bonus miles all from one retailer so long as they have multiple offers. For example Safeway has three different offers available so if you meet the criteria for those three offers you'll get the 95 bonus miles.

August 27 Update: Rent twice with Avis and earn a free day, your best bets for getting a Buddy Pass to convert to Aeroplan points & more details on Flair Airlines new U.S. routes

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Avis Car Rental has brought back their annual free day offer after a one year hiatus due to COVID. This offer provides members of Avis Preferred (free to join)with a free rental day for every two rentals of two plus days. This offer runs until Feb 28, 22. Click here to register (Registration is required) and then visit Avis.com to book your car.

August 26 Update: Aeroplan extends generous refund & rebooking policy, save 15% on AeroMexico award tickets out of Canada & a reminder to complete your Best Western stay surveys

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Air Canada Aeroplan has once again updated their refund and re-booking policy by extending it to September 30:

Aeroplan flight rewards booked through September 30, 2021, can be changed or cancelled free of charge, at any time.  Members can cancel free of charge and receive all of their points back in their account, plus a full refund of any associated taxes, fees and charges on the unused value of travel. For changes, members will pay only the difference in points, or receive a partial refund if their new itinerary requires fewer points. In addition, a difference in taxes, fees and charges may apply when changing an itinerary.

Want to leverage your airline or hotel elite status into other programs? Check out this new service!

Did you know that once you have earned elite status with an airline or hotel you can typically leverage it to obtain status with other airlines and hotels? This topic of elite status matching is one we cover with some regular frequency here on Rewards Canada - whether its reporting on new status match offers or showing you how some of them work. Some elite status matches are easier than others, in particular hotel program matches, these are usually easier to come by than airline matches with the easiest being Best Western's famous Status Match No Catch offer. It is the airline side that can prove to be more difficult and that's where statusmatch.com comes in. This new company co-founded by a former frequent flyer program head, a frequent flyer program director and the creator and operator of frequent flyer program will represent you and your status to other airlines in your quest to obtain additional elite membership.

Air Canada Buddy Pass to Aeroplan points conversion will end on November 30 plus they will extend annual worldwide companion passes

 

 Air Canada reached out to us this morning to let us know they have now put in place an end date for being able to convert Buddy Passes earned from there co-brand cards to Aeroplan points. Instituted earlier, this conversion was an unpublished benefit that Air Canada put in place due to the uncertainty in travel. The benefit allowed members who felt they could not utilize their buddy pass to call up Aeroplan and ask to have it converted to 30,000 Aeroplan points. With Aeroplan members starting to travel more and the previously announced extension of Buddy Pass expiry to the end of 2022 Air Canada felt it is right time to bring the conversion option to a close.

Here are the latest RBC Offers including a 10% statement credit for Microsoft purchases, 50% off two DoorDash orders & more!

 

RBC is really giving it a go with their RBC Offers program as they have a whole bunch of new offers added and some extended since we last provided an update at the start of this month!

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.

Mogo card to replace its 2% Bitcoin cashback with a good for the planet tree planting reward

Today Mogo announced a major change and shift in the rewards being offered on their MogoCard. Currently the card earns 2% Bitcoin cashback as the reward for your everyday spending but that will come to a close on October 1st. From August 25th onward, on Mogo will instead plant one tree for every transaction made on the card. 

August 25 Update: Awesome gas gift card redemption offer from CIBC, 5,000 bonus Be Well points for linking your RBC card & earn up to $350 with a new Scotiabank account

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Right now CIBC Aventura cardholders are able to redeem their points for select gas gift cards at up to 50% off (ie only 7,000 points for a $100 gift card). This puts the per point redemption rate for these cards at 1.42 cents each. That's an awesome redemption rate for gift cards as it is higher then the 1 cent per point you would get for their any travel redemption and is very competitive with the average redemption rate when using the Aventure airline rewards chart. This offer is available until September 15. Learn more here.  (Thanks to Raffaele F. who sent this offer to us via our Facebook page!) 

CIBC AC Conversion Visa Review - Load up to 10 currencies and earn 1% cash back until April 30, 2022

 
Earlier in the year we brought quick details of the limited time cash back offer for CIBC's AC Conversion Visa and now wanted to delve deeper into what this card is and what it offers.  The CIBC AC Conversion Visa is a prepaid Visa credit card option offered by CIBC and Air Canada that has been around now for quite a few years and is somewhat unique in that you can load multiple currencies onto to card at once to use when traveling to various parts of the world.