February 10 Update: Could we see an update to the Marriott Amex card and Amex cards lose access to Quebec City’s Jean Lesage VIP Lounge (could be temporary) + MORE Feb 11th

Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your bear 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! Down in the U.S. there were changes announced to the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Visa Signature Credit Card including new accelerated earn rates on dining, gas and grocery plus elite status night with spend. According to an interview Gary Leff at View from the Wing had with Chase and Marriott these changes were not meant to attract new customers:Chase’s President of Co-Brands Ed Olebe offered a different framing. In my conversation with him he didn’t portray the accelerators as game-changers. Instead he suggsested that the “intent here is how do we take a world class card and make it better, not fix something broken but improve something people love…

TAP Air Portugal has launched a great Valentine’s Day sale for travel for their flights out of Toronto. It is available in both Economy and Executive (Business) Class but I’ll focus on the latter in this post as that really seems like the good deal! With this sale you can fly round trip business class from Toronto to Portugal from $1,999 all in or travel beyond to other European destinations for $2,499. On top of this, for the Executive/Business Class fares they are offering double status miles in TAP’s Miles&Go program.  This means you would earn 10,746 status miles each way if you fly Toronto to Lisbon. One round trip with over 21,000 status miles would put you two thirds of the way to TAP Miles&Go Silver Elite status (Star Alliance Silver). You could also choose to credit these flights to Aeroplan where you would 200% points and 200% SQM which would be 7,164 points/SQM each way. Click here for more details and to book this offer.All flights need to be booked between February 10 and 14 for travel until September 30, 2022…

 The latest AIR MILES Bonus Boom event kicked off today with your usual set of bonus miles offers for shopping or completing actions with various AIR MILES partners. Most of the bonuses are available between today and February 23. While this may version may not be called Bonus Boom Boost like we saw at the end of 2021 the additional bonus is tiered for using multiple offers is more like Boost rather than the previous Bonus Boom offers which had your standard 95 miles for three offers.With this version you will earn 100 bonus AIR MILES Reward Miles when you use 3 different offers, 200 bonus miles for 5 different offers or 300 bonus miles for 7 different offers. Just like the past few Bonus Boom events you have the ability to earn these bonus miles all from one retailer so long as they have multiple offers. For example Sobeys has three different offers available so if you meet the criteria for those three offers you’ll get the 100 bonus miles. Some offers in the Bonus Boom boost are automatic where no action is needed on your part other than showing your AIR MILES card to earn miles however others do require you to opt-in…