New Visa Infinite Privilege dining & stay offers, Air Canada increases some checked baggage fees on Aeroplan & paid tickets and Aeroplan extends generous flight reward change policy

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A new batch of Visa Infinite Privilege dining and stay offers were released this month. This time the new dining offers are in Halifax, Calgary Toronto an more. Here are just some of the new offers available exclusively to these Ultra Premium credit cards: 

New 100,000 PC Optimum points offer on PC Financial Credit Cards

We have yet another 100K offer for PC Financial Mastercards. You can receive this bonus when you apply by May 5, 2022 and it is good for any one of the three cards in their portfolio:

• PC Financial Mastercard
• PC Financial World Mastercard
• PC Financial World Elite Mastercard

You can now top off your Marriott Bonvoy Free Night Awards with an additional 15,000 points

As part of last October's announcement that Marriott Bonvoy was moving to dynamic pricing for awards, they also promised that they would add a feature where you can top off Free Night Awards with an additional 15,000 points to cover hotels that were charging more. The hotel chain promised to have this feature available in April 2022 and on the last of the month, it has officially launched.

CIBC Aventura® Visa Infinite* Card - Earn up to 40,000 Aventura Points with first year annual fee rebate†

 
CIBC has an increased limited welcome bonus offer on their CIBC Aventura® Visa Infinite* Card† via select partners like Rewards Canada that is actually higher than what you'll find on their site. Thanks to the awarding of a 5,000 points anniversary bonus the total amount of welcome bonus points that can be achieved on the card up to 40,000 with this offer.

Scotiabank is revamping their Platinum and No Fee American Express Cards

The card we labelled as a 'sleeper card' back in 2017, the Scotiabank®* Platinum American Express® Card, will be receiving some major changes that take effect on July 1, 2022. The card is currently ranked as the fifth best Ultra Premium Card in Canada (Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards 2022) and with these upcoming changes should continue to remain in that spot. The Platinum Card is not the only one that Scotia is revamping as they are also making changes to the entry level no fee Scotiabank American Express card which we'll look  Let's take a look at what's changing on these cards.

Earn 5x miles with select retailers on AIR MILES Shops for Mother's Day

 
AIR MILES Shops is celebrating Mother's Day by offering up to 5x miles for shopping with select retailers until May 8, 2022. As long as your purchase meets the minimum requirement for earning at least 1 AIR MILES Reward Mile you'll receive the bonus. Some of the participating retailers include lululemon, Walmart, Simons, Michael Kors and more. 

Last chance to get the increased welcome bonuses on the Signature RBC Rewards Visa or the RBC Rewards+ Visa

 
A pair of entry level rewards cards will see their limited time welcome bonus offers come to a close in just a couple of days. Those two cards are the Signature RBC Rewards Visa and the RBC Rewards+ Visa which are offering 7,000 bonus points and 2,500 points respectively. The offers are available until May 2, 2022 and will not be extended.

Earn up to 45,000 Scene+ points with the Scotiabank Gold American Express Card

 

The very popular Scotia Gold American Express Card is currently offering 45,000 points which are worth $450 towards any travel that you book via any method and charge to the card. The bonus is broken up into two separate requirements. the first 25,000 points are awarded when you spend at least $1,000 on the card in the first 3 months and then you can earn an additional 20,000 points when you spend at least $7,500 in your first year of having the card. 

Aeroplan Availability Alert: Business Class on Austrian Airlines out of Montreal for up to 4 or more people for Winter 2022/2023 travel

 
Spencer at Straight to the Points sent out another alert about business class tickets for up to 4 people being available on Austrian Airlines and since the airline is a Star Alliance member you can use your Aeroplan points to redeem for these flights. Availability is showing from November 2022 through to March 2023 for flights to Vienna and beyond. Perfect timing to visit all the Christmas markets! Aeroplan charges 70,000 points each way for partner award flights in business class plus the $39 partner award booking fee.

Shangri-La Hotels revamped program is here and you can earn up to 1,800 bonus points with their launch offer

 

Shangri-La Hotels officially launched their revamped frequent guest program today and have a launch offer to celebrate. Formerly known as Golden Circle, the new Shangri-La Circle program adds more flexibility, ease of use and more benefits for elite members including an ultra-exclusive invite only level called Polaris.