Clash of the Credit Cards! HSBC World Elite® Mastercard® vs. TD First Class Travel® Visa Infinite* Card + MORE Apr 5th

Welcome to another Rewards Canada Clash! This clash comes to us at the request of one of our Facebook followers! ‘Nam’ asked if we could have a Clash between the HSBC World Elite® Mastercard® and the TD First Class Travel® Visa Infinite* Card so here it is! If you would like to see any cards go head to head against each please do not hesitate to reach out to us in the comments, on social media or via email.In this match up we look at over half a dozen criteria to compare the cards against one another along with a head to head detailed table comparison. From rates and fees, welcome bonuses, points earning, redemption and more, the cards are put to the test in the RC Arena! Continue on to the main RC Arena to see who wins this Clash!  Want to see what other cards have gone head to head? How many wins and losses there have been? You can find it all on the main Rewards Canada Clash page.

Back at the start of February Air Canada Aeroplan came out with an awesome promotion to earn extra elite status miles, spend and segments for flying, shopping, linking accounts and more. This promotion called Accelerate Your Way status promotion is set to wrap up at the end of this month however one portion of it has just received an extension.The extended offer – flights to EuropeThe flight portion of the promotion awards 100% bonus SQM, SQS, and SQD every time you fly with Air Canada in Economy Standard fares or higher through April 30, 2022. That remains in place except for travel to Europe. Flights to Europe will continue to earn 100% bonus SQM, SQS, and SQD until September 30, 2022. The rest of the offers:The rest of the offers from this promotion remain the same and available until April 30:#1. Members can get a one-time bonus of 5,000 SQM, 5 SQS, and $500 SQD when they do any three of the following by April 30, 2022:Link their Aeroplan and Starbucks Rewards;Link their Uber or Uber Eats with your Aeroplan account; Earn points with the Aeroplan eStore, LCBO, Starbucks, Uber, Uber Eats or a car or hotel booking;Redeem points for any merchandise or gift card at the Aeroplan eStore or for a car or hotel booking;Hold a Core or Premium Aeroplan Co-brand credit card through at least April 30, 2022…

Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. Be sure to subscribe to the Rewards Canada News email newsletter so that you don’t miss out on any loyalty program news and offers! You can subscribe to the newsletter here Nearly a year ago JetBlue Airways announced they were launching flights to Canada – more specifically Vancouver and that got me wondering as to when the flights would be starting up!, JetBlue has published those start dates and we’ll see Vancouver-New York JFK launch in June 9 while Vancouver-Boston will launch on June 16. Both of these routes are available for purchase on JetBlue’s site. The New York JFK flight will be operated with an Airbus A320 while the Boston flight will be an Airbus A220 – so unfortunately no Mint Products are available on these flights. That’s too bad as the flights departing from Vancouver are redeyes and it would be great to have those Mint seats as an option! Here are the flight schedules: Vancouver – New York Dep 11:30pm Arr 7:48am New York – Vancouver Dep 6:59pm Arr 10:26pmVancouver – Boston Dep 10:05pm Arr 6:19amBoston – Vancouver Dep 5:45pm Arr 9:04pm Recommended reading: JetBlue is finally coming to Canada! Vancouver to New York JFK and Boston service starts in 2022 Image via JetBlue— One more American Express Cobalt Card Multiplier update for you…

The new welcome bonus offer for the HSBC World Elite® Mastercard® is here and it provides up to 80,000 bonus HSBC Rewards points for new cardholders. This is 20,000 less than the offer that was in the market for quite a few months. If history repeats itself we won’t see that 100K offer return until the fall especially with this offer being marketed as ending on October 31, 2022..  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.The bonus outside of Quebec is awarded as follows:Welcome bonus of 20,000 points* ($100 travel value) Earn 40,000 points* when you spend $6,000 within 6 months of account opening ($200 travel value)Earn 20,000 points* as an anniversary bonus ($100 travel value)and the card’s purchase earn rates are as follows: 6 points per eligible dollar spent on all eligible travel spending – This earn rate is only awarded on the first $50,000 spent in this category annually3 points per dollar spent on all other spendingThe 80,000 points bonus once achieved are worth $400 in travel rewards but in fact you will have at least 98,000 points as you would be earning a minimum 3 points per dollar on the $6,000 in required spend…