Great news out of American Express today!
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Great news from American Express today! We
finally see a transfer bonus from Membership Rewards to British Airways
Executive Club. Until Sep 30 you’ll receive 1.25 Avios for every 1
Membership Rewards point. This isn’t like the 50% bonus we’ve seen from
years past but something tells me there is a glut of Membership Rewards
points sitting in people’s accounts right now who have just been waiting
for this bonus. I would also wager a guess a lot of those points come
from the American Express refer a friend program. If it wasn’t for the
American Express referral bonus there would be a lot less frequent
flyer blogs, travel and financial blogs delving into the loyalty space
in Canada right now and less people promoting the cards in their signatures on
forums. So while some might whine that the bonus is only 25% I look at
it this way: without the referral bonus, perhaps you would only have
50,000 Membership Rewards Points to transfer and if the bonus was 50%
you’d get 75,000 Avios. However because you’ve referred 5 friends since
the last transfer bonus in 2013, you actually have 100,000 or more
points to transfer for at least 125,000 Avios so you’ve come out ahead
in the end. I am in this boat, I’ve refer a few people each month (1 referral in June 2015) but contrary
to some who ask, I don’t get very many through Rewards Canada as we have
marketing agreements with American Express that preclude continuous
use of the referral links. Unfortunately some of you may not have
referred friends or are new cardholders (but you can before Sep 30!) so ultimately you are getting
less compared to the last bonus but be thankful they are even
running the bonus and the fact that Amex has kept the base transfer at
1:1 and not followed their American counterparts by lowering it to 5:4! You can find out more about the current transfer bonus here.
Not really news but we found a flashback post from Airlineroute.net
interesting! It shows Air Canada’s International route network from
1985. The route that I found the most interesting was the old
Toronto-London-Mumbai-Singapore route. I remember seeing this on the
route maps from back then I thought what an awesome routing that would
be for those of us who are avgeeks! (That term wasn’t around in 1985 but
the premise behind is the same!) Check out the post here.
Posts since our last update:
- Amex Membership Rewards 25% Bonus when transferring to British Airways Executive Club
It’s been over 2 years in the making! Too many email and blog comments to count with people asking…
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