January 31 Update: Credit cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees, More Rewards adds a new pharmacy partner & new exclusive Visa Infinite Privilege offers

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. 

 

Over the weekend another popular feature on the Rewards Canada website received an update. That feature is Credit cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees. In this piece we look at cards that can save on baggage fees, seat selection fees and other charges associated with flying these days. Check it out here.

CIBC Aventura® Visa Infinite* Card - Earn up to 40,000 Aventura Points with first year annual fee rebate†

 
CIBC has an increased limited welcome bonus offer on their CIBC Aventura® Visa Infinite* Card† via select partners like Rewards Canada that is actually higher than what you'll find on their site. Thanks to the awarding of a 5,000 points anniversary bonus the total amount of welcome bonus points that can be achieved on the card up to 40,000 with this offer.

Earn 3,000 bonus points on all Best Western stays booked online by Feb 4 (Targeted offer)

Today we see the return of Best Rewards’ 3,000 bonus points on all stays booked online bonus. This is a targeted offer (you should get the email the sent to you on the 31st) but if not you can always try to register for it via our link below. These offers although targeted seem to work for almost anyone so it doesn't hurt to try to register for it. The bonus is 3,000 points per stay booked between January 31st and February 4 for stays completed by May 9, 2022.

Earn up to 7x points with select retailers via the Aeroplan eStore during their Valentine's Day event

 
Air Canada Aeroplan is running a Valentine's Day event where you can earn up to 7x points for shopping online at select retailers via Aeroplan's eStore. This offer runs until February 14 with retailers like The Body Shop at 6x points, Little Burgundy at 4x points and Sephora offering 7x points.

TD further increases the welcome bonus on the TD Cash Back Visa Infinite* Card, now earn up to $290 cash back

Back in December TD came out with new and extended welcome offers on their credit cards including one of the best ever for their TD Cash Back Visa Infinite* Card. That offer when launched offered up to $210 in cash back for any one who applied for the card by May 29, 2022. And even though that bonus offer was better than most in the market by $10 the prevalence of those competitors offering a published 10% on $2,000 has overshadowed this bonus. When you have 10% on $2,000 (or $2,500 on one card) versus 6% on $2,000 plus 6% on the next $1,500 some consumers don't see that second part so they are only comparing 10% and 6% on $2,000 spend and thus those 10% offers are winning out. So what does TD do? Well as of today they are now also offering 10% back on the first $2,000 of spending BUT they are also keeping the 6% on the next $1,500 in select categories. If you can max that out in the first three months as required then you will earn $290 in cash back. That's $40 to $90 more than most of the competition. 

CIBC AC Conversion Visa - Load up to 10 currencies and earn 1% cash back until April 30

The limited time 1% cash back earning on CIBC's AC Conversion Visa has been extended to the end of April 2022.  This card is a prepaid Visa credit card option offered by CIBC and Air Canada that has been around now for quite a few years and is somewhat unique in that you can load multiple currencies onto to card at once to use when traveling to various parts of the world. 

AIR MILES Shops - Earn 3x miles site wide for your online shopping until February 9

AIR MILES Shops is celebrating Valentine's Day by offering 3x miles site wide on AIR MILES Shops purchases made by February 9, 2022. 

Credit cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees - Updated for 2022

 
The next long running Rewards Canada feature to get its yearly update and also be moved to the new format on our site is article on Credit cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees.

CIBC Dividend® Visa Infinite* Card - 10% cash back on all purchases up to $2,500 and a first year annual fee rebate

 
The highest welcome bonus for non-American Express Cash Back cards in our market has typically been 10% cash back on up to $2,000 of spending ($200 cash back). That changed when CIBC bumped up the spend limit for their offer to $2,500 over the first four statement periods. This means that 10% welcome bonus can earn you up to $250 cash back!

Aeroplan credit cardholders can earn 15,000 bonus points for flight+cruise bookings with Air Canada Vacations

Here's another Aeroplan bonus points offer that is only available to those who hold Aeroplan co-brand credit cards. This offer is from Air Canada Vacations and awards 15,000 bonus points per member for ACV flight plus cruise bookings. That's a great bonus seeing it is awarded to each member who is on the booking! The offer is available for booking until February 28, 2022 with a nice long travel window of having to complete the flight and cruise by December 31, 2023.