November 17 Update: Flair Airlines announces flights to Mexico and a big update to Rewards Canada's Book Travel/Support page

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 

Flair Airlines announced another new route expansion this week as the airline move into the Mexico market! The airline will offer low-fare flights to Cancun and Los Cabos, Mexico, from Vancouver, Abbotsford, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Kitchener-Waterloo:

Coast Hotels: Receive a $20 e-gift card for every gift card purchase of $100 of more

 
Canada's own Coast Hotels is getting in on the business of providing an extra bonus for buying gift cards. Similar to what we've seen from Best Western and other hotel chains Coast Hotels is essentially offering a 20% bonus when you buy their gift cards. The hotel chain will give you a $20 e-gift card for every gift card purchase of $100 or more. 

Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for November - 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 or Marriott Bonvoy points - both of which can provided some huge outsized value rewards!

Receive 100 Free Miles when you join Japan Airlines Mileage Bank

 

Japan Airlines Mileage Bank or JMB has come out with a new member acquisition bonus for anyone who joins the program from around the world. Now, the bonus won't make people jump out of their seats but if you're not a member of the program yet, well hey here's your first 100 miles if you do join during this campaign. Once registered you'll also be entered to win one of 20 prizes of 6,000 miles. The registration for the promotion isn't the most straight forward. You'll need to click a link to join the program from your respective region in the world and once you have joined you need to go back to the promotion page and register for the offer. I hope that makes sense!

Offer details:
100 Free Mileage Bank Miles when you join Japan Airlines Mileage Bank. Simply enroll for a JMB card, JMB WAON Card or JAL Global WALLET and then register for this promotion. Click here for more details You must join and register by Jan 31, 22

Here's what the bottom of the promotion page looks like - I've added the 'steps' to show how to get your 100 miles.

 

November 16 Update: Two big AIR MILES earning events coming soon, Radisson Rewards extends inactive points accounts & Swoop expands in Edmonton

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 
AIR MILES Shops Early Black Friday Event will start on November 19! You can earn 15x the Miles sitewide! Makes me wonder what the actual Black Friday offer will be? 20x miles? I hope that's the case!

Aer Lingus Black Friday Sale: Save up to $200 on flights from Toronto to Dublin

Aer Lingus is one of handful of airlines to release their Black Friday offers more than a week ahead of the actual day! For this year’s offering the Irish airline is offering up to $200 off their flights from Toronto to Dublin. Economy class flights see discounts of $100 while flights in business class see a $200 discount. The discount is available on fares booked by November 30 for travel  from January 1 to May 31, 2022.

Summary of global hotel systemwide bonus points promotions – November Edition

Here is your monthly update of all the global hotel bonus points promotions that are available. One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of these systemwide bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs. Unless you are staying at a boutique hotel or perhaps an independent hotel most other hotels out there have a bonus. So take advantage of it! Most of these systemwide bonuses simply require you to register beforehand and they do not affect hotel pricing as long as you book a point eligible rate which are most rates out there. Of course booking through a third party site like Expedia or Rocketmiles does not count as most chains only award points on bookings that are made directly with them.  Here are all the current promotions that are available to everyone this month: 

Podcast Episode 85 - Introducing MyMcDonald's Rewards - the restaurant's new points based loyalty program

 

In this episode we discuss the new MyMcDonald's Rewards program that launches on November 16, 2021! We look at how the program changes from the old McDonald's Rewards from earn rates to redemption rates and the value in the new program.

Earn up to 1,800 bonus miles when you shop online via the Cathay Pacific Asia Miles shopping portal

 
Here's another online shopping bonus for you and one that isn't typically thought of for most of us! That bonus comes to us from Cathay Pacific Asia Miles shopping via their recently revamped portal. The good news is they have a Canadian version where you can shop online with Canadian retailers on the newly launched platform! This is perfect for Asia Miles collectors looking to build up their mileage balances.

Just in time for the holiday season the Aeroplan LCBO partnership is now live!

 

The new Air Canada Aeroplan LCBO partnership is now live! As announced earlier this year Ontario's liquor retailer left the AIR MILES program to join up with Air Canada's Aeroplan program. The program launches today with existing members now being able to earn Aeroplan points at LCBO retail stores along with a bonus and if you are not a member yet you can join Aeroplan now and earn an additional bonus on your first LCBO purchase. In the near future you will also be able to redeem Aeroplan points for LCBO gift cards.