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.
Since January 18, 2022, Esso Extra members were no longer able to earn or redeem their points anymore. However, they have until April 30, 2022 to convert their Esso Extra points to PC Optimum.
Costco and Capital One ended their relationship, but when one door closes, another door opens. Just for reference, here are the highlights of each card for comparison’s sake.
Effective today, January 18, 2022, until April 30, 2022, Esso Extra members are able to convert their points to PC Optimum points.
As we approach the holiday period, AIR MILES is reducing the number of Dream Miles needed to redeem on over 500 merchandise rewards by at least 100 Miles each. Here is the fun part, the new rollback is NOT a limited-time offer and will be available to all AIR MILES collectors.
Today we feature Thomas Rummel, Vice President, Travel Rewards AIR MILES Reward Program. Today, he will share his thoughts with us on the new AIR MILES Flights platform. Thank you Thomas for taking the time to answer our questions, seems like this is just a stepping stone for lots to come. Looking forward to what else you have in store!
1) Please tell us about yourself and your role with AIR MILES.
It has been over 2 years since our last full rundown of the Scene Rewards program (minus a feature update). So we are long overdue for an update, so let’s get going.
Expiry Policy
As with most rundowns of loyalty programs that do, we start with the expiry policy, since this seems to be a big issues for anyone looking to get the ball rolling into the miles and points world.
Effective today, October 21, 2021 through November 10, 2021, the AIR MILES Reward Program has launched its AIR MILES Flight-a-Day Giveaway.
Prize
The are two main prizes to win:
Air Miles announced recently that they are making some enhancements to their rewards program including a new logo (see image below)
Air Miles seems to be looking at making an aggressive move to win more market share by making their program more competitive.
A few days after I wrote my comparison post regarding the U.S. and Canadian American Express Membership Rewards program, and I mentioned that we rarely see transfer bonuses in Canada as we do in the U.S., in pops a 30% hotel transfer bonus. This offer runs from September 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021.