The “Big Five” Canadian banks offer credit cards and include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Did you know that there are many other options?
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Aeroplan has adjusted mileage accumulation for select fare classes on Asiana Airlines. These changes take effect on July 15. (Source Aeroplan)Earn 50% of the miles you fly in booking classes H, E, Q, K or S. For travel until July 14, 2019, earn 100%Earn 25% of the miles you fly i.... More »
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November 19 Update: Redeem Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles on Icelandair, new Air Canada routes, bonuses galore!
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Once again lots of news and bonuses to bring your way! News, Tips & TricksAs we mentioned earlier this fall, the partnership between Alaska Airlines and Icelandair returned. It started off with only being able to earn miles on each others flights along with reciprocal elite benefits but now you can once again redeem Mileage Plan miles for Icelandair flights. Seeing that Icelandair serves a decent amount of cities in Canada and that we have a Mileage Plan co-branded credit card this is good news. The more ways you get to use your miles the better. Happy redeeming for those flights to Iceland and/or Europe!! And it doesn’t take a lot of miles to redeem. 22,500 miles is all that’s needed for a one way economy class ticket (low season) between Canada and Iceland. Seeing that the Alaska Airlines World Elite MasterCard has a 25,000 mile sign up bonus you can achieve that flight for only the $75 annual fee and whatever taxes/fees are charged on the award ticket. (Source View from the Wing)If you are planning to use your British Airways Executive Club Avios to redeem for International Business Class seats (or economy) on TAM between Toronto and New York be warned that the route is dropping to only 2 flights per week instead of 3 between April and June of next year…AIR MILES car rental redemptions get even better value with Alamo & National until December 31st.
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You may recall from our post Travel Hacking 102 – Earn up to 3,300 AIR MILES Rewards Miles for FREE with a potential value of over $1,000 in travel that we show how the best value for redeeming AIR MILES is for car rentals. Here is an excerpt from that post showing the car rental portion:Even better than this however seems to be an exceptional value for redeeming for car rentals via AIR MILES.Here 605 AIR MILES Rewards Miles covers $191.81 of the car rental for a value of 31.7 cents per mile.Now you can extract even more value from car rentals as witnessed by a bonus we posted earlier this week on Rewards Canada. AIR MILES will reward you up to 100 bonus miles for redeeming miles for Alamo or National Car Rentals. Depending on your collector level you can get 40 to 100 miles back so if you take the above example of 605 miles you’d be looking at only 505 to 565 miles for that same rental. The value extraction is then as high as 38 cents per mile. That’s about three times the value per mile that we assign AIR MILES Reward Miles for flight redemptions…Billing disputes lead list of credit complaints
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