September 30 Update: Maple Leaf lounges in Calgary & Toronto now have paid walk up access & AIR MILES unveils a new look!

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Air Canada is now offering walk up paid access to two of their Maple Leaf lounges. If you traveling via Calgary or Toronto you can now pay $55 to access so long as you travelling on a same day ticket with any airline. We would assume this is temporary since travel has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels and there is room in the lounges to have paying guests visit. Learn more here. 

AIR MILES Bonus Boom is back - 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 October 13 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 Sobeys has three different offers available so if you meet the criteria for those three offers you'll get the 95 bonus miles.

September 29 Update: Many Business Class lounges in Canada now require proof of vaccination, 20x PC Optimum points at Shoppers Drug Mart & more!

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Business Class lounges in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec have had to update their access policies over the past few weeks to reflect those provinces proof of vaccination requirements.  The Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge and WestJet Elevation lounge in Calgary now require proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test from those wishing to enter the lounges while Maple Leaf, Priority Pass and other lounges in Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec require proof of vaccination.

Aeroplan Availability Alert: Business Class on Turkish Airlines out of Canada for up to 4 people in March 2022

 
Here's our next Aeroplan availability alert! There is a bunch of business class availability showing in March 2022 for flights to Istanbul. It appears most of TK's flights on Sunday, Wednesday, and Fridays out of Montreal have up to four business class seats open. Toronto is showing most days with four seats while Vancouver is hit and miss with only a few days showing up to four seats. Aeroplan charges 70,000 points each way for these partner award flights in business class plus the $39 partner award booking fee.

Avianca LifeMiles award flight sale: Save up to 30% on select Star Alliance routes

 

Avianca LifeMiles is once again offering discounted award flights on select Star Alliance routes. These offers are available for booking until October 11, 2021. Remember that right now you can buy LifeMiles with a 150% bonus via the OMAAT offer which you can combine with this award sale as that sale runs until October 15. The best options are the business class flights between North America and Asia that are now available for 60,000 to 64,000 LifeMiles one way. This includes Vancouver to Taipei at the 64,000 mile level. There is one other Canadian option and that is Toronto-San Francisco in Business Class for 20,000 miles each way.  You can buy 128,000 miles (52,000 + 150% bonus) for US$1716 which would get you round trip flights between Vancouver and Taipei in business class. That’s a really good price to pay for those flights! The only question is.... can you find availability?

Here are the latest RBC Offers including 2,500 bonus points at Petro-Canada, 10% off Aveda purchases & more

 
The RBC Offers program has some new offers added since we last did this post and also extended a bunch of offers.

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.

September 28 Update: TD Air Canada promo code working properly now and a new 100,000 point welcome bonus for PC Mastercards

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Several of our readers pointed out that the promo code Air Canada revealed last week as part of the TD Aeroplan card 10x points offer was not working. We ourselves could not get the code to work either so we reached out to Air Canada and they came back to us this morning that indeed there was an issue. That has been fixed and the promo code should work properl now! Learn more about this promotion here.

Clash of the Credit Cards! Desjardins Cash Back World Elite®Mastercard® vs. Scotia Momentum® VISA* Infinite card

 

Welcome to another Rewards Canada Clash! This time in our Clash of the Credit Cards we pit two very strong cash back cards against each other! Those cards are the Desjardins Cash Back World Elite®Mastercard® and the Scotia Momentum® VISA* Infinite card You will also find this Clash posted on the main Rewards Canada site.

September 27 Update: Marriott's Week of Wonders returns on Oct 7 and you have one week left to vote for your favourite credit cards & loyalty programs

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Marriott Bonvoy’s Week of Wonders are set to return in just under two weeks! Last year the week long promotion saw discounts for shopping through the Marriott Bonvoy Boutique, a bonus for buying Marriott points, a free night offer with Homes & Villas by Marriott International and quite possibly the most popular of them was the award night sale offering Off-Peak pricing at almost all Marriott hotels Worldwide. There is no word just yet as to what will be included this year but based on last year’s offerings you can bet the newest set of credit card offers released last week and the Marriott’s systemwide 1,500 bonus points per stay offer will be promoted as part of the Week of Wonders as well. Click here to learn more about the upcoming Week of Wonders – hopefully this will be updated soon as there isn’t much on the page yet other than a countdown clock 

Receive up to an 80% bonus when you buy Aeroplan points

Aeroplan has brought back a buy points bonus for the next couple of weeks. This tiered offer sees bonuses once again ranging from 50% to 80% dependent on how many points you buy. This offer runs until October 11 and allows members to buy up to 350,000 points per transaction up to the annual limit of 1 million points. If you buy 5,000 to 19,000 points you'll earn a 50% bonus, 20,000 to 55,000 points will earn a 60% bonus, 60,000 to 105,000 points earns 70%  and 110,000+ will earn the 80% bonus.