Aeroplan Availability Alert: Using miles on LOT Polish Airlines’ new flights between San Francisco and Warsaw + MORE Oct 17th

Today, American Express introduced the American Express Business EdgeTM Card. It is a new card that falls into their Small Business Solution portfolio of cards. This is the first business card that calls the Membership Rewards Select program as its reward offering and the second card overall from American Express after the American Express Cobalt Card. The card is coming into the ring fighting with a strong welcome bonus and strong points earning potential all the while providing the benefits and redemption options we have become accustomed to from American Express.This card is taking what American Express has done with other cards in regards to the welcome bonus and points earning. For the welcome bonus, not only do you get bonus points for getting the card and completing a minimum spend within three months – you will also get additional bonus points if you can spend a set amount on the card each month. All told the card can give you 42,000 Membership Rewards Select points in the first year of cardmembership…

Air Canada’s Star Alliance partner LOT is well know for having decent availability on their flights for Aeroplan award tickets and are also known for have lower carrier surcharges, taxes and fees than many of Aeroplan’s airline partners.Last week they announced a new route between San Francisco and Warsaw that will be launching in August 2020. The flight will operate twice weekly with a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.This new route seems ideal as an option for those in Western Canada as another way to get to Eastern Europe.We checked availability for next August on the route and Aeroplan does show it available:So why would you want to pick this routing? As we mentioned it all comes down to the fees and taxes that are tacked onto the flights. As you can see above the San Francisco-Warsaw flights has $264.10 in taxes and compare this to Vancouver to Warsaw with Air Canada operating the Transatlantic portion of the flight (in business class both ways, the economy portion is the Frankfurt-Warsaw leg):The fees are nearly $1,000 more! You could easily buy flights to/and from SFO for a lot less than that! Most days are showing at least 2 business class seats available for this flight…

As first reported by Aeronews  and now confirmed by Turkish Airlines, the airline is set to start flights between Vancouver and Istanbul as of mid-2020:This is significant news as Turkish Airlines is part of Star Alliance and thus is an Air Canada Aeroplan partner airline. The airline is well known for the regard that award flights on their planes carry no surcharges like we see on Air Canada, Lufthansa and so on! Not only that, but Turkish Airlines is a huge airline that offers amazing connection opportunities via Istanbul to Europe, Asia, Africa and some of those great islands in the Indian Ocean. Add on top of that an excellent in flight product for both business and economy and you can see why this route will be important (and popular)Related: 5 Tips to Avoid or Mitigate Fuel Surcharges on Award Tickets Currently Turkish Airlines serves Toronto and Montreal so this will be a welcome addition to those living in Western Canada.Aeronews states the flights will be 3x weekly to being with and will be operated with either a 787 Dreamliner or Airbus A350 which both have Turkish Airlines latest interiors…

Air Transat will be adding a new route between Montreal and San Diego for the Summer 2020 season . The route will operate 3x weekly with a 737-800. As we don’t know yet what the status of Air Transat will be with Air Canada your best bet for earning or redeeming points for these flights is with a proprietary credit card program. (Source Routesonline) Image via Air TransatRecently Scotiabank introduced a couple of new banking plans, the Ultimate Package and the Preferred Package. We don’t really discuss banking plans on Rewards Canada unless those plans include a benefit that waives fees on associated credit cards. Well guess what? These packages do just that! They waive the fees up to $139 on select Scotia cards. Now these banking plans have their own monthly fees but those can be waived if you maintain minimum monthly balances in them. The eligible cards for fee waivers are the Scotiabank Gold American Express, Scotiabank Passport™ Visa Infinite*, Scotia Momentum® Visa Infinite and Scotiabank Value® Visa* credit cards…