Aeroplan adds two new airline partners: Oman Air & Air Mauritius

 
All the fingers on two hands will now be officially folded open when counting how many airline partners Air Canada's Aeroplan has added since June of 2020. As of today, numbers nine and ten which are Oman Air and Air Mauritius both become official partners of the Aeroplan program. We knew two were coming from the Chase Aeroplan reveal event earlier this month but at that time we only learned of one, Oman Air. Now we know the second is Air Mauritius.

Earn 4x ALL Rewards Points for stays at the Hotel Belmont Vancouver, MGallery

There is a recurring promotion that we have listed on our site for years on end now and typically gave it more focus on our global website. That offer is ALL Accor Live Limitless' 4x points for stays at their new hotels. The reason why the offer hasn't really received any focus on Rewards Canada other than being listed on our Accor Bonus Points page is that there hasn't been a Canadian property featured in the offer - ever. That is until now. The Hotel Belmont Vancouver switched over to ALL Accor Live Limitless on December 1st and is part of this latest iteration of the new hotel 4x points bonus offer. All you need to do to earn the points is register for the offer and book your stay by January 24, 2022 and complete that stay by March 8, 2022.

December 13 Update: 25% bonus when you convert Shangri-La Hotels points to Aeroplan & other airlines; earn 25,000 bonus Be Well points at Rexall tomorrow

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 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

Shangri-La Hotels Golden Circle is offering a conversion bonus to several of their airlines. From now until December 31 you'll receive a 25% bonus when converting GC Award points to Air Canada Aeroplan, Air France KLM Flying Blue and several other airlines. Points convert to miles 1:1 so you would receive 1.25 miles for every GC Award point and they have lowered the minimum conversion requirement of 2,500 points to 1,000 points for this promotion. While GC Award points are hard to come by if you don't have a lot of them ie. enough for a free night stay, this option could make sense for you to use up some points that you may never end up using. Click here to learn more.

The new Scene+ program is now live, find all the details here!

Cineplex SCENE and Scotia Rewards members rejoice! Your revamped and combined Scene+ program is now here! After some technical issues causing the originally planned launch in November the program went live today.. well some of it was actually operable over the weekend but for the most part all of it went up today. 

Save up to 30% for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada and the Americas

 
A friendly reminder here about Fairmont Hotel’s Take Your Time promotion where you can also earn triple points on these stays!  The Take Your Time provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto & Vancouver) as well as the U.S. and Central America.

Earn 3,000 bonus points per night at Sheraton Toronto Centre Hotel

 
Here's the other new Canadian stay bonus offers for Marriott Bonvoy members that I mentioned earlier in the week in the bonus points in Quebec post.  This one is an excellent one for stays at the Sheraton Toronto Centre Hotel and it provides 3,000 bonus points PER NIGHT on Sunday to Thursday nights until March 1

Save up to 30% & earn 3x points for stays at Fairmont Hotels in the Americas

 

A friendly reminder here about Fairmont Hotel’s Take Your Time promotion where you can also earn triple points on these stays! Take Your Time provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Fairmont Hotels in North and Central America plus you have the opportunity to earn extra ALL Rewards points on those stays.

Podcast Episode 86: 2021 Year in Review. A look back at what happened in the world of loyalty programs, credit cards and more

 

TD Aeroplan cardholders can receive a 20% rebate on eligible travel redemptions

Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles isn't the only program to have an award ticket sale! Air Canada Aeroplan in conjunction with TD have their own they launched today. TD Aeroplan co-brand cardholders can receive a 20% rebate when they redeem their Aeroplan Points for eligible travel rewards. These include flight rewards, car rentals, hotel bookings, Air Canada Vacations and Air Canada gift cards. 

Award Availability Alert: 30% discount on Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles award tickets out of Canada (and worldwide)

Turkish Airlines has brought back another one of their really good award flight sales. You can book trips this month for travel through to the middle of May and receive a 30% discount in the numbers of miles required. Availability and routing do play into account here so it's not like every award ticket is discounted. You'll have to search for those discounts!