March 15 Update: Congratulations to our contest winners, new Visa Infinite Privilege stay and dining offers & an update to our Guide to Business Class Lounge access

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! 

Congratulations to René S. of Toronto, Ontario and Donna L. of North York for winning the two 5,000 Aeroplan Point prizes from our Aeroplan eStore contest last week! Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter! 

Amazing deal: Fly from Canada to Europe and beyond from $676 in Economy or $1,947 in Business (Round Trip)

KLM has brought back their Dream Deals offers for departures out of Canada! This seat sale sees round trip economy class fare being offered for as little as $676 all in (Toronto-London). The sale covers KLM destinations in Europe, Africa and Asia. The business class fares however are some of the lowest we have seen in long time from KLM! 

Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for March - These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses

 

Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for this month! This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards for small businesses 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 three first year free cards on the list! And remember this list is based on minimum value towards travel which we calculate as the minimum value of the welcome bonus less the annual fee. It is entirely possible to receive more value out of the welcome bonuses on all of these cards since they earn Aeroplan points or Marriott Bonvoy points - both of which can provide some huge outsized value rewards!

Choice Hotels: Stay Twice & Earn a Free Night (earn up to 8,000 bonus points)

Choice Hotels next promotion is here and it is the same offer we used to always see from them! They word the promotion differently in terms of get a free night or get a $50 gift card. In the end the two promos are the same, they will award you enough bonus points after you complete 2 separate stays to have 8,000 points after those stays. This time it is the stay twice and earn a free night offer. The promotion will award you with 5,000 to 8,000 bonus points and with award night starting as low as 8,000 points you would have enough points to redeem for a free night. 

WestJet announces a major schedule expansion for the summer including a new Toronto-Chicago route and the return of many more

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.

Aeroplan members can now earn points when flying on Air Mauritius

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.

Summary of global hotel bonus points promotions – March Edition

 

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. 

March 11 Update: Enter to win 2 Business Class Tickets + more from Edmonton's Best Hotels, last day to enter our contest & more confirmed Cobalt Multipliers

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:

March 10 Update: American Express Centurion Lounge to open in Atlanta and earn up to 5x points for stays at Wyndham Hotels in Canada and beyond

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

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

 
Here are the Rewards Canada Top Travel Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of March 2022! 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.