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October 9 Update: Purchase Give A Mile's limited edition Pilsner to help fund flights of compassion, Amex Centurion Lounge in JFK now open & Turkish Airlines further delays Vancouver launch + MORE Oct 10th
Shout to our friends at Give A Mile who sent us their limited edition Reservoir Pigs Pilsner brewed by Calgary's Village Brewery. A portion of each sale of this beer goes to Give A Miles to help provide their flights of compassion. As you may or may not know we have been partnered with Gi.... More »
RWRDS Daily Update August 26: WestJet is adding flights to Puerto Escondido & an AIR MILES Card Linked Flash Offer for Kernels, Lyft & Marble Slab Aug 26th
WestJet is adding flights to Puerto Escondido, Mexico and AIR MILES Card Linked Flash Offer for Kernels, Lyft & Marble Slab. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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September 23 Update: Spend $350 at William Ashley get $50 with Amex Offers, weekly beauty bonuses from Rexall & Shoppers plus WestJet adds Dreamliner to Vancouver-Toronto route Sep 24th
Earlier in the week I brought you the details of the new Amex Offers offer for Amazon Prime (looks like it met the 5,000 member limit quickly) but I forgot to mention on that same day that an offer for William Ashley returned. The offer provides a $50 statement credit when you spend at leas.... More »
Financial independence and travel: Can you have both? Apr 24th
In February and early March, as is increasingly our custom, my wife Ruth and I spent five weeks in a sunny clime in order to avoid the tail end of Canada’s winter. On our return from Malta, regular guest blogger Devin Partida contributed a relevant article titled “Can you pursue financial indepe.... More »
Aeroplan joins Chase Ultimate Rewards + a waitlist bonus for the new Chase Aeroplan Card (U.S. only) Aug 4th
This post is for our readers from the U.S. and of course for our Canadian readers who play the U.S. credit card game!In December 2020 Air Canada Aeroplan and Chase announced they would be launching a new partnership in 2021 that would see Chase issue an Aeroplan co-brand credit card for the U..... More »
Aeroplan members can now book Canadian North reward flights online on the Aeroplan website. Prior to this you had to call in to book reward flights and pay the phone in booking fee. This is nice little update to the program in your ability to search and book these famous flights online. They are famous as they tend to be very expensive and some of the routes like Edmonton to anywhere in the Northwest Territories price out as Short Haul flights within the Aeroplan program which means you are redeeming as little as 7,500 miles one way. (Source Aeroplan) Here is the current Canadian North route map:Images via Canadian North WestJet announced late last week they will provide no-charge COVID-19 travel insurance for select air and vacation reservations. Remember this coverage doens’t replace your regular travel insurance as it is only specific to COVID-19 as listed below. (Source WestJet) For reservations made on or after September 18, 2020, any WestJet air-only reservation including WestJet Vacations bookings for travel to and from Mexico, the Caribbean (excluding the U…New welcome offer of 100,000 PC Optimum points on PC Financial Credit Cards
– RewardsCanada.ca
Another 100K credit card offer to let you know about! Thanks to Rewards Canada reader Cheryl T. for alerting us to the return of the 100,000 point offer on the PC Financial Mastercards. The last offer just came to a close at the end of August and this one launched on September 5 – so they didn’t wait too long to bring it back. The offer is good for any one of the three cards in their portfolio:PC Financial MastercardPC Financial World MastercardPC Financial World Elite Mastercard To receive the bonus you need to apply via this link and then make a single purchase in store or online at a Shoppers Drug Mart, Wellwise, or participating Loblaw banner store within 6 months of being approved for the card. Those 100,000 points once you receive them are worth $100 towards purchases made any participating PC Optimum stores like Loblaw banner stores (Loblaw, Real Canadian Superstore etc.) Shoppers Drug Mart and so on. The World Elite version of these cards is a strong point earner for purchases made at locations where you earn PC Optimum points but purchases made outside of that see an earn rate that is pretty average at only 1%…
