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The best Aeroplan credit cards in Canada for 2025 + MORE Mar 15th
Aeroplan is Canada’s largest airline loyalty program—and one of its most lucrative. Owned by Air Canada, Aeroplan offers a ton of flexibility compared to other airline loyalty programs. You can redeem Aeroplan points with more than 50 partner airlines and even transfer points to other programs. .... More »
Marriott Bonvoy Elite Members to receive 50% elite night credits, will offer a double points/elite credit promotion & a discount on off peak redemptions + MORE Jan 12th
Marriott just announced they will once again be giving a boost to their elite members to make re-qualifying for status easier during these depressed travel times. This February all elite members will receive elite night credits equal to half of what it would normally take to earn the same stat.... More »
October 28 Update: Massive devaluation to Delta SkyMiles partner award flights, Amex offers Amazon Prime Update + another 3x/5x multiplier & OWG delays first flights + MORE Oct 28th
News out of the U.S this morning that Delta SkyMiles has significantly increased redemption requirements for award travel on partner airlines between the U.S. and Europe & Asia. Delta pretty much considers Canada as the same as the U.S. so these new non-published award rates would apply.... More »
IHG One Rewards new elite benefits and milestone rewards are now live & earn up to 5x points with Aeroplan eStore Father's Day event + MORE Jun 8th
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. Today's update is brought to you by the HSBC High Rate Savings Account with which you can enjoy a total annual interest rate of up to 2.65% on new deposits± .... More »
Average APR on new card offers holds steady at 14.9 percent + MORE Apr 2nd
April 1, 2015: The national average APR on new credit card offers remained unchanged this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report..... More »
New myth: Closing a credit card account always hurts your score
– creditcards.com
It’s a new myth that closing a credit card account always hurts your score. The information about the card (good or bad) sticks with you for (seven to 10) years
American Express Canada – Card Confidential Video Series
– RewardsCanada.ca
If you follow American Express Canada on any of their social media channels there is a good chance you may have seen some or all of these videos. If you haven’t we are pleased to pass them along to you since Rewards Canada was involved in two of them! We filmed these back in April in Toronto to provide tips and tricks to maximizing your reward programs and how to travel better using credit cards and their associated loyalty points. You can use these videos to in conjunction with our “Guide to choosing a travel rewards credit card”. Of course these videos center around American Express’ mainstay card the American Express Gold Rewards Card and I had no problem filming them or talking about the card since it is one of the main cards I keep in my wallet and use everyday.Related: The First Steps in Choosing a Travel Rewards Card You can view all these videos on Amex Canada’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanExpressCADCard Confidential: Choosing the Right Card Card Confidential: Tips from an Industry InsiderCard Confidential: Travel Like a Pro with Curtis Joseph Card Confidential: Travel Further on Points Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Amex Bank of Canada…
July 31 Update: Link your Club Sobeys to Air Miles for a chance to win 5,000 Miles, new low cost carrier Jetlines hopes to break into the market
– RewardsCanada.ca
Wow a day where the news almost outnumbers the bonuses offers! News, Tips & TricksJust in case you missed this email, Club Sobeys sent out a notice for linking your Air Miles account to your Club Sobeys account. The main reason you would want to do this is for the chance to win 5,000 Air Miles for doing so and also for a few days of auto conversion of Club Sobeys points to Air Miles. The points convert at a rate of 14 Club Sobeys Points to 1 Air Mile which means without bonuses your earning 1 Air Mile for every $14 spent. This auto conversion will start on September 12th and I assume will run until Club Sobeys is wound down at which point you’ll just provide your Air Miles card when you shop at Sobeys. Find out more hereJet Airways is making some slight changes to the earning structure for flights in their JetPrivilege program. They will now award a minimum amount of miles for flights under 500 actual flights miles. In most cases this should work out better for members as the previous earning schedule was strictly a percentage of the miles based on the fare paid…
