As a Canadian, I revolve my frequent flying earning between two major programs which dominate most of our country: Airmiles and Aeroplan. While you can earn and use Aeroplan points on Star Alliance partners, there are also many other ways you can earn your Aeroplan miles.
When considering renting a car, it may not always make the most sense to earn car rental loyalty program points when there are promotions for partner programs. Aeroplan has partnered up with Avis and Hertz to offer some bonus miles on certain car rentals.
With American Express burying itself with all sign up bonus changes, I am glad to see that there are other financial institutions that are stepping up, like CIBC. They are once again offering its first year fee waived promotion with its CIBC Aerogold Visa Infinite Card. It has been a while since we last saw this promotion (March 31, 2014).
It is Saturday again, so we’ve got another round of weekly updates for you. This week, we saw the Aeroplan conversion bonus back, Scotiabank officially taking over the Sears credit cards and a historic merger, pending final approval, between Marriott and Starwood.
I have been noticing a trend with TD Aeroplan credit cards lately. They tend to have special offers on a specific link, rather than on a their main site for everyone to see. So you do need to dig around to find promotional offers. The latest offer
CIBC really decided to up their game on this one. Last month, we saw the expiry of a 20,000 Aeroplan miles sign up bonus, first year fee waived. They ended that promotion by starting a newer and better one. Now, we are seeing 25,000 bonus Aeroplan miles and first year fee waived with the CIBC Aerogold Visa Card for Business.
For those who are looking to book a hotel that you do not plan to stay with very often, because you are more focused on finding the best price to suit your needs. As a result, you may not feel that it is worth the hassle to sign up for the hotel loyalty program. An alternative to this problem is to set your hotel program to earn Aeroplan miles instead of hotel points. This way, you can pool your points into Aeroplan, so that you can save for a reward flight quicker.
Often times, I am asked which airline frequent flyer program to accrue. My answer has always been the same, it depends on which region of the country that you live. Depending on which part of the country you live in, there are different airline hubs and concentrations.
Travelling in the air is definitely one of the most accelerated solutions to earning enough miles to redeem for complimentary travel. Depending the type of frequent flyer program you are affiliated with, you can earn from the distance flown or amount paid for the ticket. Being an elite status member, you can earn these miles at an even impetuous speed.
Recently, one of Pointshogger’s readers asked the question of the difference between a Market Fare and Fixed Mileage Flight Reward offered by Aeroplan. In today’s post, we will analyze these two topics.