Massive new welcome bonuses on 11 American Express cards

American Express has revealed their summer acquisition campaign with massive bonuses and accelerated earn rates on eleven cards from their portfolio. Reminiscent of last year's summer campaign which heralded the best ever bonuses on seven cards, this year's offers are some of the top offers we have seen to date in 2022!

Earn 4,000 bonus points per stay at the Delta Hotels Ottawa City Centre

Offer details:

Earn 4,000 bonus Bonvoy points per stay at the Delta Hotels Ottawa City Centre. Valid for stays until Sep 5, 22  Click here to learn more and to book this offer.

Make sure you pay for your stay with the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express®* Card or the Marriott Bonvoy™ Business American Express® Card as those cards earn 5 points per dollar spent on Marriott purchases!

50% bonus qualifying spend on bookings with Air Canada for Business & posting issues with the BMO AIR MILES 3x partner multiplier

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If your business participates in the Air Canada for Business program now is the time to book flights with Air Canada. From today through to September 30th all companies that participate in the program will earn 1.5x the qualifying spend on bookings made during this period. For example if you purchase a $1,000 fare you will be credited with $1,500 in spend for your company. The only fares not eligible are flight pass purhcases and basic economy - all other fares qualify. Click here to learn more.

Clash of the Credit Cards! BMO eclipse Visa Infinite Card vs. MBNA Rewards World Elite Mastercard

Welcome to another Rewards Canada Clash! This time in our Clash of the Credit Cards we have two more 5x points cards go against each other! Those cards are the BMO eclipse Visa Infinite* Card and the MBNA Rewards World Elite® Mastercard®

Air Canada and Emirates Form Strategic Partnership

 
Coming through the wire this morning was this surprising news from Air Canada! The airline will be forming a strategic partnership with UAE based Emirates. These are the same two airlines who have in the past, fought over how many flights Emirates could operate to Canada! It looks like those differences have been repaired.... or forgotten as the two will start working together later this year.

Amtrak resumes service between Toronto and New York & a new Amex Offer for Lordco Auto Parts

Here's your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.

Amtrak has resumed service to Toronto from New York after a two year hiatus. The Maple Leaf service operates daily with six stops on the Canadian portion of the route. This is a welcome return for those who used this service before the pandemic and are itching to ride the rails to New York again. Click here to learn more. (HT The Points Guy) 

BMO AIR MILES Mastercards to receive a new accelerated grocery store earn rate

Good news today for holders of BMO AIR MILES credit cards as they'll soon be earning more miles for grocery purchases made anywhere. This comes not too long after the news that the Empire group of grocery stores (Sobeys, Safeway, FreshCo etc.) were leaving the AIR MILES and thus effectively removing a big chunk of the partners the BMO AIR MILES cards had as their accelerated earn rate locations.

Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for July - 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 -  which can provide some huge outsized value rewards!

Miles & More Mileage Bargains - Big mileage discounts of 50% or more between Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver & Europe

 

The latest set of Miles & More Mileage Bargains (Meilenschnaeppchen) discounted mileage awards are here for this month. This month we see a few more cities on the list with offers available from Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Small changes to the Laurentian Bank Visa Infinite Card & receive 25 bonus AIR MILES when you redeem Cash Miles at Safeway & Sobeys

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Sometime over the past month or so there were some changes to the Laurentian Bank Visa Infinite Card. It no longer has a welcome bonus offer (the 8x points) or first year annual fee waiver. They have also reduced the pre-authorized debit earn rate from 3 points per dollar to 2. I'm not entirely sure when the earn rate change happened as I don't check on this card as often as others but thought I would pass it along nonetheless. Learn more about this card here.