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A pretty big update up to our American Express Cobalt™ Card Confirmed Multiplier Locations feature. The following were added to the section on Canadian merchants:
Five days after it came to a close we see the return of Hilton’s bonus for buying points! Once again you can earn a 100% bonus when you buy points and just like the last version the bonus kicks in when you buy a minimum of 5,000 points. Also the promotion this time does see the doubling of the annual cap on buying points so you can buy up to 160,000 points. That 160,000 cap does not include the bonus points so if you max out this offer and buy 160,000 points you’ll receive 320,000 into your account.
I recently had the pleasure of flying from Vancouver to Toronto with Air Canada as my work had me heading out for the first time in two years. For this flight I used four of my eUpgrade credits to upgrade from Premium Economy to Business Class. The eUpgrades I have are part of the yearly benefits for being an Air Canada Aeroplan elite member.
It's time for another Rewards Canada Clash! Here is the clash so many of you have been asking for! A battle of the true 5x points earners and two of the overall best cards in Canada! We have the Best Overall Credit Card Canada and Top Hybrid Rewards Card the American Express Cobalt™ Card going up against the Top Travel Points Card with an annual fee and 6th place overall card, the Scotiabank Gold American Express Card
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!
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 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 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.