Today, we are happy to feature the founder, Reed Sutton and Senior Editor, Hugh Campbell, of Frugal Flyer, one of the fastest growing travel blogs in Canada. Thank you Hugh and Reed for taking the time out of your busy schedules to answer our questions. Keep up the great work and looking forward to watching you guys grow even more!
Star Alliance just celebrated its 25 year anniversary this month. As a result, we thought it would be a good idea to update our airline alliance rundown post.
There are 3 worldwide major airline alliances, as well as 3 regional alliances that we will mention further down the post.
CIBC offers a co-branded Air Canada Prepaid Card, called the AC Conversion card that you can sign up here.
Below are the highlights of the card before we get going on the review:
There was only a slight change this month where the Scotia Momentum Visa Infinite Card offer was extended.
For this month, the Tangerine offer is coming to an end before we reach the next monthly list.
Keep in mind that we still have the Top Cash Back Credit Cards page, which includes permanent and temporary offers if you wish to see a more complete list of cards, not just cards that offer at least 10% cash back.
Today, we feature the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at AIR MILES, Rick Neuman, who will lead the technological innovation, development and dissemination ahead of its 30th anniversary. He brings a wealth of experience from Flipp, Sears Canada, Canadian Tire and Walmart. Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions Rick, we are looking forward to the new initiatives that you are in charge of!
Gas prices are just getting out of control. In Canada, we have surpassed $2 per litre in many parts of the country. What can we do to bring down the cost? Today, we will go over a few different strategies. We will start with some rewards related ways first. Then get into the non-rewards related ideas.
By joining the TD Advisory Community, you can earn points for completing survey programs.
Points are redeemable towards gift cards (e.g. Amazon, Home Depot, Starbucks, Walmart), as well as be entered into a monthly sweepstakes. Gift cards start at 500 points for $5.
Compared to last month, HSBC extended their offers with some minor tweaks and Scotiabank SCENE Visa card offer got pushed to end of August. For this month, the National Bank, RBC and TD offers are coming to an end before they make it to next month’s list.
Before we talk about what the interview series is about, we just wanted to share some history of Pointshogger. We launched our site back in October 2013 and it has been quite a journey since then. We met lots of amazing people that we thought we would never meet (mostly virtual). Over time, we have tried to keep up with the changing times.
It’s been a year since Aeroplan and Starbucks Rewards teamed up. More details about their partnership here. Now their partnership is expanding further with the ability for Aeroplan members to directly convert Aeroplan points to Starbucks Stars.