Air Canada is offering a bidding program to upgrade a passenger’s seat. The upgrades are based on availability for select destinations and scheduled flights operated by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, and under the Air Canada Express banner.
Come join us on March 20, 2017 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm (EST) at the Andaz Ottawa for an Ottawa Travel Hacker Meetup, hosted by my good buddy, Anshul, from Points Miles and Bling.
Today, we feature Don Cleary of Marriott Hotels Canada. Last time, we did an audio interview with Vice President Global Loyalty Thom Kozik (Marriott) that you can find on YouTube.
This time around, I thought I’d go with a written interview instead. Due to a time sensitive schedule, I was unable to request questions from our readers. However, if you do have any questions, please let us know in the comment section and I will forward them directly to Marriott!
This idea came from a comment in my Top Credit Card Higher than Normal Sign Up Bonuses post. Thanks Jeff!
Both Canada and the United States offer their own versions of a co-branded Marriott Rewards credit card, each offered by the Chase Bank. In the U.S., there are currently 2 completely different offers to watch out for. Canada also has two offers, but I will only mention one of them, which I will explain below. Let’s start with the highlights of each credit card:
We received a question from Pointshogger reader, Bernard, asking us to do a comparison of the TD First Class, CIBC Aventura and RBC Avion cards.
For this post, I will compare one credit card from each company that is the most similar. The highlights of each are are as follows, and I will write up the analysis afterwards:
Effective June 1, 2017, Costco’s two membership levels are going up by $5 and $10 respective. The new fees are as follows:
Gold Star Membership increases from $55 to $60
Executive Membership increases from $110 to $120
I previously written a post about whether the annual fee is worth it.
I decided to provide my list a few days earlier than normal (either 5th or 7th of the month) because the TD promotion is expiring on the 5th, so I thought I’d give a few more days heads up.
Keep in mind that the list I provide are offers that are higher than the normal sign up bonuses only. I will be coming out with other types of lists, like first year fee waived promotions, and maybe other lists recommended by my readers (please provide in the comment section below).
Hyatt has re-branded itself to World of Hyatt. What does this mean for Canadians specifically? Not much different than the rest of its world members. I thought I’d give a quick rundown of the new program.
As you probably already know, American Express has been increasing its minimum spend requirement to fully qualify for sign up bonus for several of its charged and credit cards.
Below is a quick rundown of the changes. I ranked the credit cards card on the annual fees from lowest to highest.
As per some feedback, I think that I continue with monthly post listing out the best current first year fee waived offers. Granted, maybe I may need another list to cover other offers that do not fall under these two categories.
Either way, you can always stay up to date on the best credit card offers in my top credit cards page on the menu bar.