An update to the new AIR MILES flights booking platform sees mileage requirements addressed for super low fares + MORE Dec 16th

Ask around your group of peers what their childhoods were like, and you’ll probably discover you all grew up incredibly differently. Some of us dined on Kraft Dinner nightly, while others enjoyed meals fit for the cover of Bon Appétit. Some families were frugal by choice or necessity, and others were reckless spenders who regularly racked up debt. And though we’re adults now, many of the ideas we formed about money in our youth can still linger, influencing our financial decisions to this day—oftentimes, not positively.

“I have colleagues who know a lot about money, but that doesn’t mean they always make the savviest decisions, because they default to certain behaviours based on specific experiences and how they grew up,” says Melissa Leong, money expert and author of Happy Go Money. Early financial experiences with parents who overspent or didn’t save—or barely had enough to scrape together—can create a lasting impression, she says. 

According to a new survey conducted by Meridian, 55% of Canadians say that money problems they experienced growing up still affect them today…

 Continuing on with our extensive coverage of the AIR MILES Flights booking platform that went live nearly a month ago. We’ve had a couple of posts so far and lots of feedback from our readers that culminated our post last week Disappointment abounds in the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform. That being said AIR MILES reached out to us to let us know they addressed one of the issues when it comes to super low fares.  If you had been conducting any searches on the platform in the first few weeks you may have noticed that there seemed to be a minimum level of 1,200 AIR MILES Reward Miles required for a flight regardless of how little the base fare was. This appears to be the issue that AIR MILES has addressed as you can now find flight redemption options below that 1,200 mark.For example, here is a flight between Vancouver and London Heathrow: As you can see in the above example, you can see that you only have to redeem 500 AIR MILES for this flight but still have to pay $751…

Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year!  The new Rewards Canada site design is finally here! Today we soft launched a new look on the main Rewards Canada website that is fully responsive so it’ll will work great on mobile, tablets and desktops. Across all those platforms you’ll be able to enjoy the wealth of information we provide on the website without having to zoom or scroll in weird ways. We say soft launch, as seeing that we have 20+ years of content on our website, much of which has HTML that isn’t responsive means it’s not a quick switch of templates and it will take a bit of time to make sure every page and every feature is updated to the new look…