Earning bonus miles through shopping portals is a great way to rack up more miles in a hurry. Personally, I do my best to delay a purchase until I see a multiplier bonus on the shopping portals. I usually try to double dip buy purchasing items that are also on discount.
It’s official. Aimia (owner of Aeroplan) is now sold to Air Canada for approximately $497 million (Press releases: Air Canada, Aimia).
Deep down inside, I had still hoped that the deal would fall through, because I was excited for all the initiatives that Aeroplan was planning in my interview with their CEO, for life after Air Canada. I really wanted to see Aeroplan compete with Air Canada, as competition is usually a positive for consumers.
Today, we feature Jeremy Rabe, the CEO of Aimia (owner of Aeroplan) who has answered as many of the questions asked by our readers as they could. Thank you Jemery for taking the time to answer all the questions. We really appreciate it and look forward to all the new Aeroplan initiatives!
Pointshogger: So tell us more about this new Porter Airlines arrangement
JR: We’re very excited about this partnership and the other preferred arrangements we’ve announced to take effect in July 2020 These preferred relationships help us to further differentiate and strengthen our air offering come July 2020 by giving members increased flexibility and great value.
A press release just came out announcing that Aeroplan is teaming up with Amazon.ca, effective April 24, 2018. Just when we thought Aeroplan was taking a nose-dive, they came out with a strong response.
Note that you can earn Aeroplan miles through their shopping portal. Below are the steps:
Aeroplan’s eStore is offering their Black Friday promotions today.
You can earn up to 10x miles with some retailers, such as Coach, Fitflop.com, Nike, Sonos and Sephora. Most other retailers, you can earn between 4x to 6
I was on CBC, On The Money talking about what to do with Aeroplan.
Two things, I need to work on smiling and I could not, for the life of me, figure out where the lens was.
Aeroplan has added a new reward car rental redemption partner. Members can now redeem for Budget car rentals online. Avis has already been available.
Budget
Budget has over 3,000 rental locations in Canada, US, Latin America, and Europe. As an added bonus, members can currently earn 100 miles every time they redeem for a Budget car rental.
Here is a screen shot of a 1 week car rental:
Funny enough, my last Saturday Update was also to announce the Aeroplan Transfer Bonus. Also wanted to send a gentle reminder about the Ottawa Travel Hacker Meetup this coming Monday.
Aeroplan Transfer Bonus is Bac
Just a couple of days away from Boxing Day. As I have stated in the past, don’t underestimate the bonuses miles that you can earn through online shopping portals. Currently, the stronger Canadian shopping portal is with Aeroplan. Below are some of the bonus mile offers to watch out for.
It took some time to digest this information, as I can’t actually believe that the government has decided to step in to regulate loyalty programs. Not only that, this bill passed unanimously. Did they open pandora’s box? Are loyalty programs really going to sit there and let the government push them around like this?
Grant this is not the first time that the Ontario government stepped in to regulate the industry. In 2007, they also banned expiration dates on gift cards.