WestJet sent out four press releases this morning announcing a significant increase in their flight schedules for this summer. The airline is adding one new route and restoring service on more including many of their transatlantic routes. Here are the details of the WestJet's expansion as travel continues to recover.
Back in December Air Canada's Aeroplan added two new airline partners, Oman Air and Air Mauritius. The latter started off as a redemption partner only but as of today Aeroplan members can now also earn Aeroplan points when flying on the national airline of Mauriitius. The airline flies to some major international hubs that Air Canada flies to such as London and Paris thus making connections to Mauritius that much easier and its great that you are now able to earn points in addition to redeeming them.
Here is your monthly update of all the global hotel bonus points promotions that are available. One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of these global/systemwide/regional bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs.
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.
Not only are Edmontons Best Hotels offering the great gift card and rewards offer we brought to you back in February (read all about that offer here) but now they have an awesome contest that you can enter. Click here to enter the contest!
Here is what you could win:
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your 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!
American Express announced earlier this week they will be opening a new Centurion Lounge at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The lounge which is set to open in 2023 will be the largest lounge yet in the Centurion network at approximately 26,000 square feet. Canadian Platinum Card and Centurion Cardmembers can access all Centurion Lounge including this one when it opens and in fact access is better from Canadian cards in terms of guest allowance over the U.S. based Platinum cards. Click here to learn more about this new lounge
Plaza Premium has introduced a new lounge access pass for their lounges in the Americas which includes those here in Canada. Via View from the Wing we learned this new pass can be purchased for US$59 and includes two lounge visits of three hours each in length. This is perfect for those who don't have lounge access via their credit card and also don't need Plaza Premium's global 2 lounge visit or higher pass.
This pass will provide you with access to Plaza Premium Lounges (going West to East here) in Vancouver (4 lounges), Edmonton (1 lounge), Winnipeg (1 lounge), Toronto (6 lounges) and Montreal (1 lounge). These include the new T3 lounge in YYZ, the pre-security concept lounge at YYZ and YUL's Air France Lounge.
Recommended reading: Rewards Canada's Guide to Business Class Lounge Access
Outside of Canada the pass is accepted at any Plaza Premium Lounge, Avianca Lounge, Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse operated by Plaza Premium Group and MERA Business Lounge in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia (excluding Argentina)
Click here to see the entire list of lounges for this pass.
The pass costs US$59 for two visits, which is $16 less than the global lounge two visit pass. However if you use promo code SPRING10 you can save an additional 10% on the pass price making it only US$53.10. That works out to US$26.55 per visit or about C$34 per visit. To book a 3 hour visit to any of these lounges on their own runs in the neighbourhood of C$60-$70 so you can see how this can be a worthwhile deal.
Even if you have a credit card with access you may want to look at this pass with the discount code for additional guest or family members as most lounge access programs charge US$32 per guest.
If you are a member of Plaza Premium's Smart Traveller program (it's free so you really should join) you will earn 150 Arrture points for each purchase of one of these passes.
The pass is valid for 12 months so do only buy it if you know you'll use up both visits in that time and it is also transferable/sharable.
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Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your 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!
We completed an update to another one of our popular features on the Rewards Canada website. That feature is What you actually have to spend to get some of the best credit card welcome bonus offers. This piece looks at exactly that - how much you have to spend to get a bonus. With so many bonuses out in the market and many of them requiring Spend X to get Y the chart here will show which cards will take $0 in spending to get a bonus all the way up to those that require $40,000 to get the advertised welcome bonus. Click here to check out the updated feature.
