A sleeping giant: The Scotiabank Platinum American Express Card

There is one Ultra Premium credit card that just can't seem to stay in the spotlight, even with it having some significant changes at start of July, the card just seems to quickly fall into the shadows. That card is the Scotiabank Platinum American Express card. A sleeping giant in our market, the card perfectly fills a spot between other Ultra Premium cards that charge higher annual fees and premium cards that offer less benefits.

Aeroplan further extends pause on points expiry to May 2023 and save 30 AIR MILES when you redeem for entertainment rewards

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Air Canada Aeroplan has announced one more extension on the pause of the expiry of Aeroplan points. The last extension had the points expiry rule being reinstated as of September 30, 2022 but that has now be moved significantly later to May 31, 2023.

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 August 14, 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
  

Earn Double Miles with AIR MILES Card Linked offers until July 31

 
When AIR MILES went through their revamp in late 2021 one of the new features they added was Card Linked Offers. This is where you can link any Canadian Mastercard to your AIR MILES account and when you use that card at the merchants featured in Card Linked Offers you earn AIR MILES Reward Miles for that purchase. Some of the participating merchants include Subway, Boston Pizza and The Shoe Company

Air Canada and WestJet are offering an additional 15% off flights in Canada & less than 48 hours left to enter our DragonPass contest!

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Air Canada and WestJet are both offering an additional 15% off flights within Canada that are booked today:

 

Air Canada is offering 15% off all Economy Basic, Standard, Flex, and Comfort fares for travel in Canada. Must book today (July 26) for travel August 4, 2022 – August 31, 2022 Click here to learn more.

WestJet is offering 15% off all Basic and Econo fares for travel in Canada. Must book today (July 26) for travel August 4, 2022 – August 31, 2022 Click here to learn more.

Big changes coming to the TD First Class Travel Visa Infinite Card and other TD cards

Big news from TD today as they are making changes to several cards in the credit card portfolio. The changes range from minor to major and I won't bore you with a long introduction as there is lots to cover in the post so I'll just get down it:

Earn up to 80,000 bonus points + receive a first year annual fee rebate with the no foreign transaction fee HSBC World Elite Mastercard

 
The current welcome bonus offer for the HSBC World Elite® Mastercard®  provides up to 80,000 bonus HSBC Rewards points for new cardholders.  On top of the new 80,000 point bonus is also a first year annual fee rebate for the primary cardholder. Once you have those 80,000 points they are worth $400 towards any travel! Since Quebec doesn't allow the first year free waiver the offer there is a whopping 110,000 points worth $550 towards travel but you do have to pay the annual fee so you end up with $401 in travel value.

Four confirmed Cobalt Card multiplier locations in Halifax & Condor to launch Edmonton to Frankfurt flights in 2023

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An update to our American Express Cobalt Card Confirmed Multiplier Locations with some new places from Halifax. Thanks to CedricT for providing details on the following locations:

• 5x: Cows, Beavertails, King of Donairs
• 2x: Bob’s Taxi

Air Canada Aeroplan Family Pool Flight Bonuses for travel to Casablanca or Seoul

Air Canada launched two new flight promotions  this month to earn bonus Aeroplan points on travel to Casablanca or Seoul. What is unique about these promotions is that they are targeted to Aeroplan Family Pool members and at least two members of the pool must complete the requirements of the offer although they do not have to travel on the same flights.

RBC Rewards to become Avion Rewards

 

RBC has just announced they will rebranding their RBC Rewards program. As of August 25 (or later) the program will be known as Avion Rewards. From a marketing standpoint this makes sense as there has always been some confusion around their Avion products and RBC Rewards. If I recall correctly Avion launched well before they started using RBC Rewards but as the bank evolved with various credit card products and an expanded rewards catalog beyond travel they named the program RBC Rewards. Of which the Avion products were a integrated part yet also were a somewhat separate program.