The Air Miles rewards program is reaching a significant milestone of issuing its one hundred billionth (100,000,000,000) reward mile. To celebrate, they have been doing giveaways on its social media channels, since August 30, 2021. Their social media channels include: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This will run until the end of the weekend (September 6, 2021).
It has been almost 5 years since I last update this post. In light of American Express Canada’s new partnership with Air France, KLM Flying Blue, I thought it was a great opportunity to update this post. This post compares the Canadian and U.S. American Express Membership Rewards programs. A lot has changed in the last 5 years, so let’s get going.
Promotion alert!
RBC is offering a 30% transfer bonus to British Airways’ Executive Club. The last time that RBC offered a bonus to Executive Club was back in November of 2019, albeit for 50%.
RBC launched its Time for More initiative with the goal of encouraging Canadians to shop at their partner brands by offering bonus points opportunities with them.
Time for More Highlights
Throughout the summer, the Time for More campaign will give eligible RBC credit and debit cardholders promotional offers including:
Starting today, over the next 3 weeks, Air Miles is offering its spring Bonus Boom promotion. Effective March 25, 2021, until April 14, 2021, Air Miles collectors can earn 95 bonus miles after making purchases at 3 partners.
We value 1 Air Miles at 11 cents a piece, so 95 bonus miles is worth just over $10.
Air Canada’s frequent flyer program, Aeroplan, has launched a partnership with Starbucks Canada that enables Aeroplan members to earn and redeem points on Starbucks (e.g. beverages and snacks).
Link Accounts
Members need to go to aircanada.com/starbucks to link their Aeroplan and Starbucks Rewards accounts together.
Back in 2016, I began a tradition of trying to predict the travel / rewards market in Canada. The first year was rough, but it got better over the years. How did it go in 2020?
Below are my previous scores:
I cannot believe that it has been almost 6 years since I last wrote a post about RBC Avion points program. The reason I am writing about it today is because many people were able to snag the 25,000 or 35,000 Avion points sign up bonus (first year fee waived) promotion with the RBC Avion Visa Infinite just under a year ago (offer expired February 28, 2020). For the churners out there who do not want to pay the annual fee, they will need to decide what to do with their points, but there has yet to be a transfer bonus to frequent flyer programs.
Air Miles is cranking things up to finish out 2020. There are 2 current initiatives happening at the same time.
Bagful of Air Miles Bonus Event
Between October 29, 2020 and November 10, 2020, you can earn bonus miles for certain daily food and products are Air Miles partnered stores. This is a great way to rack up more bonus miles on every day spending.
Today’s post is to summarise some of the news and notes to watch for related to Canadian specific companies. Namely regarding Air Canada, Air Miles and Cineplex.