Earn 3x Aeroplan Points on Rocky Mountaineer rail journeys when you book by July 8 + MORE Jun 9th

It’s an Air Canada and Aeroplan kind of day here on Rewards Canada as this will now be the fourth post today featuring the airline or the loyalty program! This post covers a new bonus points offer for Aeroplan members looking to book rail journeys with Rocky Mountaineer. The two have now been partners for just over a year and although it’s not alluded to, we’ll call this their first anniversary bonus! Until July 8, 2022 Aeroplan members will earn 3x points when booking Rocky Mountaineer excursions for travel through to October 2022.The Bonus OfferThe standard earn rates for Aeroplan members with Rocky Mountaineer are 1 point per dollar spent for SilverLeaf or SilverLeaf Plus and 2 points per dollar for GoldLeaf. However with this bonus the earn rate is as follows:3 Aeroplan Points (1 base Aeroplan Point and 2 bonus Aeroplan Points)  for every $1 CAD spent on a SilverLeaf® Service or a SilverLeaf Plus®  Service booked during the Promo Period; or6 Aeroplan Points (2 base Aeroplan Points and 4 Bonus Aeroplan Points) for every $1 CAD spent on a GoldLeaf® Service booked during the Promo Period…

Many Canadians carry debt on their credit card, perhaps resigned to paying the high interest rate they agreed to when they opened their account. What cardholders might not realize, however, is that compound interest—meaning interest charged on interest—can quickly bloat a modest debt load into a financial burden.

If you’ve been chipping away at a credit card balance but feel like you’re not really making a dent, you may want to consider a new strategy: making a credit card balance transfer. In this article, we’ll walk you through the basics of credit card interest and how to use a credit card balance transfer to keep your debt load under control.

How credit card interest is calculated

When you use a credit card, there’s an APR, or annual percentage rate, that’s applied to purchases or other services like cash advances. With many cards, this rate hovers at around 19.99%. As the name suggests, this is an annual percentage rate, but credit cards are charged monthly—so you’ll need to do some math if you want to know your daily or monthly rate…

 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± Click here to learn more about this offer  We updated our review of the BMO AIR MILES®† World Elite®* Mastercard®* this week. The card is the pride and joy of the co-brand partnership between BMO and AIR MILES and is considered the flagship credit card for the program. The review also includes details how Sobeys switching to Scene+ affects the card. Click here to read the entire review—If you have or choose to get the CIBC AC Conversion Visa which is a prepaid Visa card that allows you to load multiple currencies you can be entered to win Air Canada flights! Until August 31st, 2022, you’ll be entered for a chance to win two (2) Air Canada plane tickets as a grand prize for each $250 CAD equivalent load in any foreign currency on to your card…

Air Canada’s Aeroplan program is one of the most rewarding and lucrative programs in Canada when it comes to travel. The great thing about the program are the numerous opportunities to earn a lot of points with their co-brand credit cards and credit cards that allow you to convert to Aeroplan. As some of these cards are available with no annual fee in the first year or others with no annual fee at all, you can score a lot of Aeroplan points for free. * By free, we mean as in paying no annual fees on this list of credit cards in the first year – you simply need to make the minimum spending requirement on some or all of the cards to garner those points. Some of you may have one or two of these cards so you can jump on some of the offers to earn a portion of the points for free or are sitting at a position in the points and miles game where you can re-apply for them now and get yourself those points. On the other hand some of you may not have any of the cards listed below and can potentially score the full 67,500 points and the Buddy Pass…

 Here’s our next Aeroplan availability alert! There is a bunch of business class availability showing in the first three months of 2023 for flights between Montreal and Zurich on SWISS. We learned of this offer via Spencer at Straight to the Points! The flights operate on all days of the week except Monday and Wednesday. Most of the days we checked they are showing at least 4 business class seats available per flight in both directions. Aeroplan charges 60,000 points each way for these partner award flights on SWISS in business class plus taxes and the $39 partner award booking fee. All in for a round trip you are looking at 120,000 points + $150.35 per person ($111.35 in taxes + $39 booking fee)Here’s an example of availability between Montreal and Zurich in February for 2 people (These same flights did have four seats available): I checked quite a few random dates between January and March and they all show very good availability.  Do note once you get into April the availability dries up…