Air Canada has brought back a limited time offer where you can earn extra Aeroplan points for buying Air Canada gift cards. The offer is available until June 19th and will award 1 point/$ spent on gift cards up to $750 and 3 points/$ if you spend over $750. Do note these don't code as Air Canada purchases on your credit card as they are processed by Buyatab so you won't earn extra points on the Aeroplan suite of co-brand credit cards or any credit card that has a travel accelerator.
In light of the recent news of Sobeys et al. moving from AIR MILES to Scene+ and my updating of the Rewards Canada review of the BMO AIR MILES World Elite Mastercard it became very apparent to me that BMO is going to have to revamp their portfolio of AIR MILES co-brand credit cards. In this post we'll look at why I think these cards need to be updated and how the bank should update them.
Our American Express Cobalt Card Confirmed Multiplier Locations feature received a nice big update today thanks to a couple of our rewards. The page saw a trio of Edmonton restaurants added thanks to CedricT and over 20 restaurants in Minneapolis, Chicago and Decorah were added thanks to Aaron B.! Aaron also confirmed that Lime Scooters in the U.S. code as 2x points as they do here in Canada.
I can't even count now the number of time that ownership of Radisson Hotels or its subsidiaries has changed hands over the past few decades and it continues this week with Choice Hotels announcing the acquisition of Radisson Hotels Americas. The Americas portion of Radisson only emerged about a year ago after the parent company had to split their Radisson family of brands in two due to Chinese ownership and U.S. privacy rules. Thus they created Radisson Hotels Worldwide and Radisson Hotel Americas, the latter to appease to the U.S. government. It is the latter as well that is subject of this purchase.
Alaska Airlines has launched a new buy miles offer that runs until December 23rd. This time the bonus once
again ranges from 30% to 50% depending on how many miles you buy.
Ideally you want to buy so you get that 50% bonus which means you’d have
to buy 30,000 or more miles. We see the 50% bonus quite frequently now but we also see 60% quite often now as well so unless you really need the miles right now you may want to wait to buy.
Flying Blue's buy miles bonus has returned and it's bigger and better than ever! The offer provides up to a 120% bonus when you buy Flying Blue miles which is 20% higher than we have ever seen. If you are short some miles for a redemption or want to speculatively buy for if and when we see a 50% off business class promo reward you'll definitely want to check out this offer.
