Some sort of apology letter from AIR MILES – the experience to get better but not the program itself + MORE Mar 7th

As you may have seen on the main Rewards Canada site yesterday, the details of the new TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card offer were released. The new offer is no longer first year free but does come with a 50% rebate on the first year annual fee. You’ll earn 15,000 Aeroplan upon first purchase, then 10,000 more for keeping the account open and active and in good standing for 90 days. The key word there is active which we take as meaning you actually have to using the card not just keeping it in your wallet. You can even collect 5,000 more miles for a total of 30,000 miles if you add a supplementary card for $50. Of course if you have a TD All Inclusive banking plan you don’t have to pay those annual fees.TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card• Receive a Welcome Bonus of 15,000 Aeroplan Miles with your first Purchase• 10,000 Aeroplan Miles when you keep your Account open, active and in good standing for 90 days after Account approval • 5,000 Aeroplan Miles when you add an Authorized User to your Account by June 14, 2017 (Authorized User must call and activate their Card by July 31, 2017) • 50% Annual Fee Rebate for the first year (Primary Cardholder only) – that’s $60 in savings!• Offer Valid until May 4, 2017• Earn 1…

As we do each month we bring you the latest set Miles & More “Meilenschnaeppchen” discounted mileage awards!  This month we continue to see offers for Austrian Airlines flights out of Toronto – gone however are the economy class options that were supposed to stick around until the end of March. Instead we now have these business class offers!These offers are good for travel until April 30, 2017You can redeem Miles & More miles for round trip tickets on Austrian from Toronto to Austria for only 55,000 miles. This is a ~47% discount off the normal Business Class award ticket price of 105,000 miles. Here are the offers:Miles & More is a transfer partner of Starwood Preferred Guest which means you can easily transfer over Starpoints to get in on this offer. One transfer of 25,000 Starpoints and another of 20,000 will net you enough miles since Starwood kicks in an additional 5,000 miles for every 20,000 Starpoints transferred. You can easily get 20,000 Starpoints by applying for and receiving the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express…

News, Tips & TricksThe Hilton Honors Elite Status Match that has been around for nearly a year or so (see our Honors page) that provides a match to preferred and elite status levels in other hotel programs has been extended. Status will be matched for 90 days and if you complete 4 stays in that time period you will receive the status until March 31, 19! Register Online (Registration is required)If you need to shop at Rexall over the next few days you can get 50 Bonus AIR MILES Reward Miles with a minimum $30 purchase. Get the coupon here. Posts since our last update: Some sort of apology letter from AIR MILES – the experience to get better but not the program itself Last week we did a radio interview with CJOB in Winnipeg discussing the sort of an apology letter from AIR…New TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite offer: Up to 25,000 Aeroplan Miles & 50% off first year annual fee As you may have seen on the main Rewards Canada site yesterday, the details of the new TD Aeroplan Visa…Travel Deals Not sure if I wanted to post since Alitalia is in financial turmoil at the moment but they do have some great fares to Rome from Toronto…

Last week we did a radio interview with CJOB in Winnipeg discussing the sort of an apology letter from AIR MILES. At the time of the interview on Tuesday, the letter had not been sent out to members but was scheduled to start going out on Wednesday March 1st. We received ours on March 2nd so we are assuming all members who have an email address on file with AIR MILES should have received it by now. But if you didn’t or don’t subscribe to their emails here is a screen shot of the one we received:While it isn’t an outright apology, the letter definitely leans that way. Some interesting notes to take from the letter is that they are committed to bringing a better AIR MILES experience. The key word is experience. What does that mean? Based on the the additional steps in the letter its better customer service, better communications and such. But no where does it say they are going the make the program itself better and there is good reason for that. They have already told us they need to make up for $200+ million dollar shortfall they had in 2016 due to not being able to expire our miles…

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