Rewards Options with the Rogers Bank Platinum MasterCard
The Rogers Bank Platinum MasterCard has been one of the better credit cards in the Canadian credit card market. They recently added some new valuable reward redemption options.
Author: Matt
Matt has been an avid points collector since 1992 (an elementary school student), when his dad signed up for the new (at the time) Air Miles program. Since then, Matt took a keen interest in learning how the miles and points world works. He quickly found out that there is a lot of value in leveraging miles and points to fund his passion for travelling.
Bank of Montreal (BMO) | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) | MBNA | Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) | Scotiabank | Toronto Dominion (TD)
Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses for June 2017
Another month, another Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses list. Keep in mind that I have been combining personal and business cards onto the same list.
We also have two other types of monthly lists going on:
Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers
Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards
WestJet Seeking Approval from Transport Canada to offer Flights to China
This is essentially a follow up to WestJet’s plan to buy Boeing 787 Dreamliners so that they can offer more international flights. WestJet has decided to take the next step by asking for approval from Transport Canada to offer direct flights to China.
VIA Rail Tuesday Discounts
Every Tuesday, VIA Rail offers its weekly discounts. The extend of the discounts vary from week to week. This week, we see one of the better deals. If your travel is extremely flexible, it is usually worthwhile to wait for these deals to come out before booking a trip.
Comparing Capital One Aspire versus Venture Card
Capital One used to be my favourite credit card company, especially when they still has the Delta SkyMiles and IHG Rewards co-branded credit cards. They really slimmed down their credit card portfolio in Canada. Today, we are going to discuss their most premium credit card that they offer and compare it to a similar one in the United States.
American Express (AMEX) | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) | Chase Canada (Discontinued) | Laurentian Bank | Rogers Bank | Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) | Scotiabank
Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for May 2017
Another month, another Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards list. I divided the list into two types: permanent offers (i.e. no specified expiry date) and promotional offers (with an expiry date).
We also have two other types of monthly lists going on:
Top Cash Back Credit Card Offers
Top Higher than Normal Sigh Up Bonus Offers
Priority Pass Celebrates 25th Anniversary with up to 25% Discount
Priority Pass is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
To mark the milestone, they will be offering various discounts for new member annual memberships (prices are in British Pounds):
Air Canada (Aeroplan) | Carrott Rewards (Discontinued) | More Rewards | Petro-Points (Petro-Canada) | Scene+ (Cineplex/Scotiabank)
Review of Carrot Rewards
Carrot Rewards has become quite a popular App since expanding outside of British Columbia, where it originally started. Carrot Rewards has expanded to Ontario, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador. Seems like they have some plans to expand to more provinces, so be on the lookout for that!
Tip- If you have a family or friend living on one of those provinces, you may be able to borrow their postal code. The precaution I would take is whether the postal code on your loyalty account matches.
Pointimize – Hotel and Flight Search Tool
Pointimize was launched only a year ago.
To me, this website is a one-stop shop to find award availability over multiple airline and hotel loyalty programs.
How it Works
Once your account has been created, you can start adding your loyalty programs. Pointimize supports both manual input and AwardWallet account syncing. Once your accounts have been linked, you can begin searching for award available.
Comparing Canada, Hong Kong and USA Cathay Pacific Credit Cards
Thank you Bob for today’s post idea suggestion. Note that I am always open to suggestions on credit card comparison posts as I have a lot of fun writing them, especially when I am comparing cards from different countries.
Cathay Pacific has a long list of co-branded credit card, but I selected 4 from the entire pack to compare. As we are a Canadian-centric blog, I started with the Canadian version. I generally like to compared to the United States, seeing as we are such close neighbours and they offer the most competitive cards in the world, which I like to see how Canada matches up against the best. Lastly, I think that it is most fitting to compared with the Hong Kong co-branded cards, as Cathay Pacific is based out of ther