One week left to grab the higher sign up bonus on the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express + MORE Oct 13th

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It has been awhile since we’ve seen a wide ranging bonus offer for flying on Air Canada so this comes as a nice surprise! As long as you register and book your flights by November 11th you can earn bonus miles on many Air Canada flights, not all of course, the most popular Canadian, U.S. and sun destination routes are absent but there are lots of great International destinations included. The bonuses earned are as follows:Like most bonuses on Air Canada now tickets booked before today do not count for the bonus.Offer detailsEarn up to Triple Aeroplan Miles when you fly on select Air Canada routes Worldwide. Full details & online registration. Register and book by Nov 11 for travel until Apr 30, 18 

Wow three months sure do fly by! It feels just like yesterday when the increased sign up offer on the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit from American Express launched but alas it was not. In fact it has almost been three months and the offer will wrap up next week on October 18th. If you don’t have the card yet this may be the time to get it. Sure you may be thinking that SPG won’t be around much longer and will be merged in some fashion with Marriott Rewards. That won’t happen however until late 2018 or even sometime into 2019. Add into to picture that the Chase Marriott Premier Visa card is no longer available you only have this card as option to earn Starpoints or Marriott Rewards points since you can convert at a 1:3 ratio respectively. This gives you at least a year to use the card to earn either SPG or Marriott Rewards points not to mention the ability to score 25,000 Starpoints with the current increased sign up bonus, which by all accounts should drop to 20,000 on October 19th (or potentially lower since the card has had lower sign up offers before, we just don’t know yet) Those 25,000 Starpoints are very worthwhile to redeem for Starwood stays (free nights start as low as 3,000 points or you can convert them to programs like Aeroplan or British Airways and get 30,000 miles/Avios for the 25K or convert to Marriott to get 75,000 Marriott Rewards points…

The next Canadian Points University is just around the corner and it’s in Rewards Canada’s home town! The PointsU will be held on November 3 and 4th at the new Calgary Airport Marriott In-Terminal Hotel (read our review of the hotel here) If you have not bought tickets yet you can do so at PointsU.ca and use our code ‘RewardsCanada’ to save yourself $20 on the full ticket price. With it less than a month away we want to get the details out to you now but will follow up with another post next week with more details! WestJet announced today that they have partnered with Chopped Leaf to provide the restaurant’s whole-food offerings on board WestJet aircraft. The new food service will begin on November 15th. (Source WestJet) Ethiopian Airlines is growing their Toronto to Addis Ababa service from 3 flights per week to 5 flights per week starting Dec 3. Ethiopian is an Aeroplan partner and is always a decent award flight option for flights to Africa, the Middle East and more. (Source Routesonline) Posts since our last update: The unveiling of WestJet’s 737 Max 8 with photos and flight video Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of WestJet’s newest aircraft, the Boeing 737 Max 8…

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