Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Credit cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees & Rewards Canada's Guide to Business Class Lounge Access both see updates

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


We've updated the popular feature Credit cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees to reflect the changes to the National Bank of Canada World Elite Mastercard that kicked in last week. The card's travel reimbursement benefits is now $150 instead of $250 however you don't have the category limitations in place anymore that made it tough for some cardholders to use up the entire $250. Check out the feature here.

TD Aeroplan Credit Card fall offers - earn up to 105,000 bonus Aeroplan Points


TD has released their fall offers for their Aeroplan co-brand cards. For the most part these are the same offers we have seen in place for the majority of 2022. The only change is an increase in the spend and time requirement on the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Privilege Visa card. The other two cards, the Visa Infinite and Visa Platinum cards continue on with their exact same offers.

Now Live: Earn 2x Honors points on Hilton stays worldwide + 2,000 points for weekday check outs


Hilton Honors’ Fall promotion is now live and it offers double points all stays Worldwide. On top of the double points, if you check out on a weekday (Mon-Fri) you’ll earn an additional 2,000 bonus points. With no limit to the number of bonus points you can earn this is a perfect hotel hopping promotion to move around hotels during the middle of week! If you have a three day business trip from Monday to Wednesday and your time allows you to alternate Hilton Hotels for each night you could earn the double points plus 6,000 points for those three nights.

Monday, September 5, 2022

Receive a 50% bonus when you buy or gift British Airways Executive Club Avios


 

British Airways is once again offering a bonus for buying Avios. This time it is a flat 50% bonus when you buy 2,000 or more Avios at once. The 50% bonus tends to be the highest public offer from the program although some people have been targeted for a 75% bonus in the past. You can buy up to 200,000 Avios in one transaction and there is a 200,000 Avios annual limit to which the bonus does not count towards. This offer is only available until September 14, 2022.

Credit Card Review: RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card

One of the first travel rewards cards to offer any flight any time potential, the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card has been a mainstay in the travel credit card market for well over a decade. The card, which we first reviewed in 2011 is by far one of the most popular in Canada. Over the years we had some band-aid updates to that review so we thought it's time to do a complete refresh for 2022!

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Air France KLM Seat Sale: Fly from Canada to Europe and beyond from $749 in economy or $3,046 in business class


Air France and KLM have launched a three week long sale for their flights out of Canada that sees some pretty decent fares in economy, premium economy and business class. The offers must be booked by September 20 for travel between September 18, 2022 and June 17, 2023. The sale is something to look into if you don't have enough Flying Blue Miles / American Express Membership Rewards points to take advantage of the economy class reward flight deal the airlines have right now. Click here to learn about the reward sale.

Saturday, September 3, 2022

Miles & More Mileage Bargains - Big mileage discounts of 50% or more between Montreal & Austria


The latest set of Miles & More Mileage Bargains (Meilenschnaeppchen) discounted mileage awards are here for this month. This month we only have one Canadian city included and that is Montreal with flights on Austrian Airlines

30% bonus when you convert hotel points to United MileagePlus Miles

United has brought back their bonus for converting hotel points to MileagePlus miles. The bonus for this iteration of the promotion is 30% and you are allowed to earn a maximum of 25,000 bonus miles across all your transfers. Really the only transfer that can make sense is converting Marriott Bonvoy points since they transfer at a a 3 to 1.1 ratio. You’ll also want to do it in 60,000 point batches to ensure you get the extra miles from Marriott. All other hotel programs have pretty terrible conversion ratios however if you have orphaned points in those programs that you know you’ll never use, then by all means convert them over so you can get something of value from them.

Friday, September 2, 2022

One additional Marriott Hotel to open in the Montreal area and Canada's second Radisson Blu Hotel to open in Vancouver

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

There is one more new Marriott Hotel set to open this year now. The Residence Inn Laval has popped up on Marriott's website and right now they are stating an opening date of December 2022. If you recall from our post on New Marriott Hotel Openings in Canada for 2022 the year started off with just 6 new hotels planned for this year. This is now the ninth hotel on the list however it does not appear that the Moxy Banff or Moxy Halifax will make their opening this year now so we may me end up with seven new hotels for this year. This new hotel in Laval is situated right near the Cosmodome museum and was formerly a Quality Suites Hotel. Click here to learn more about this new hotel.

Thursday, September 1, 2022

New increased welcome bonus offer of 7,500 points for the Scotia SCENE+ Visa Card

 

Just as Scene+ is expanding its presence in Canada with the addition of grocery partners we see the original Scotia SCENE+ Visa Card get a limited time increased welcome bonus! The no annual fee card sees its offer for new customers jump from 5,000 to 7,500 Scene+ Points.