The BMO AIR MILES Mastercards are due for another revamp + MORE Jun 15th

 A handful of new Amex Offers were revealed today after a week of going without any. Personally I received the Best Western and Roche Bobois offers on my Platinum Card and the lululemon on my Cobalt Card. Thanks to the Amex Offers thread on RFD I also learned about the Voila offers as I did not receive either of them.Here are the offers:Best Western:Spend at least $100 in qualifying purchases using your registered Card directly at participating Best Western Hotels & Resorts location(s) in Canada or at www.bestwestern.com by 15/09/2022 and earn a one-time $20 statement credit. Registration cap applies. Terms apply.lululemon:Spend at least $125 in qualifying purchases using your registered Card at https://shop.lululemon.com/ by 31/08/2022 and earn a one-time $25 statement credit. Registration cap applies. Terms apply.Roche Bobois:Make a qualifying purchase of at least $750 using your registered Card at participating Roche Bobois location(s) by 31/07/2022 and earn a one-time $250 statement credit…

Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.One more step was taken by the Federal Government yesterday to returning travel to normal. The feds announced an end to the vaccine requirement for domestic air and rail travel. As of June 20th travellers flying or riding the rails within Canada will no longer have to show proof of vaccination. The rule also holds true for passengers departing from Canada on international flights or rail journeys however there may be separate rules in place for the foreign airlines and/or the country you are travelling to so be sure to know those beforehand. All other requirements still remain in place such as masking on planes and trains and the return to Canada requirements such as vaccination and testing. Click here to learn more about this news You can earn 2x Marriott Bonvoy Points plus a free night award for home rental stays of 5 or more nights booked via Homes & Villas by Marriott International…

Air Canada has brought back a limited time offer where you can earn extra Aeroplan points for buying Air Canada gift cards. The offer is available until June 19th and will award 1 point/$ spent on gift cards up to $750 and 3 points/$ if you spend over $750. Do note these don’t code as Air Canada purchases on your credit card as they are processed by Buyatab so you won’t earn extra points on the Aeroplan suite of co-brand credit cards or any credit card that has a travel accelerator. There is maximum per transaction limit of $2,000 for buying gift cards online and the promotion also has a cap of 30,000 Aeroplan points that can be earned ($10,000 in gift cards).Click here for more details and to buy Air Canada Gift Cards

In light of the recent news of Sobeys et al. moving from AIR MILES to Scene+ and my updating of the Rewards Canada review of the BMO AIR MILES World Elite Mastercard it became very apparent to me that BMO is going to have to revamp their portfolio of AIR MILES co-brand credit cards. In this post we’ll look at why I think these cards need to be updated and how the bank should update them.Rewards Canada Revamp SeriesDuring the course of 2021 we offered a series of posts on credit cards that Rewards Canada felt were due for a revamp, tweaking or overhaul. Those articles proved to be very popular and we are pleased to now  continue it with a 2022 series on cards that are in need of a makeover! The first post in the 2022 series fell into our lap over the past few weeks thanks to some big news in the loyalty space in Canada. The cards we are going to look at in the first post of this year’s series that we feel are in need of a revamp/update overhaul are the BMO AIR MILES®† World Elite®* MasterCard®*,  BMO AIR MILES®† MasterCard®* and the BMO AIR MILES®† World Elite®* Business Mastercard®*For your reading pleasure here are the previous posts in the our 2021 Overhaul/Tweaking series:There is one very popular travel rewards credit card in Canada that is due for a major overhaul  It’s time for American Express to tweak the venerable Gold Rewards Card  Two of Canada’s best cash back credit cards are in desperate need of one small tweak It’s time for TD to update their TD First Class Travel Visa Infinite Card  Revamping the BMO AIR MILES cardsAlthough the BMO AIR MILES Mastercard cards have undergone a few revamps over the past few years, more than most other cards in Canada, they are going to need another refresh sooner than later…

Visa Canada has a new partnership with one of our home grown hotel programs, RSVP Rewards. RSVP Rewards is the relatively new program for Canada’s Sandman Hotels and The Sutton Place Hotels. Outside of coverage on Rewards Canada the year old program has gone relatively unnoticed but with this new partnership it has definitely been brought into the spotlight. Recommended reading: RSVP Rewards – Canada’s newest hotel loyalty programThe partnership sees holders of premium and ultra premium Visa cards in Canada receive automatic elite status in the RSVP Rewards program. To the best of our knowledge this is first such hotel elite benefit to be seen on non co-brand credit cards and non American Express cards in Canada. Visa (and several other cards) used to offer status with Fairmont’s President’s Club years ago but once Fairmont was taken over by Accor that benefit disappeared so this new initiative is welcome addition to the cards. The Automatic Elite Status The RSVP Rewards elite status that Visa cardholders will receive are as follows:Visa Infinite® and Visa Infinite Business® Cardholders will enjoy automatic Platinum status in the RSVP Rewards program…