Aeroplan soft launches using miles to bid for upgrades and a full time buy/gift miles option

Air Canada’s Aeroplan soft-launched two new features today for program members. The first is using Aeroplan Miles to bid for upgrades on flights and the second is the full time availability to buying or gifting Aeroplan miles. Here are the details as provided to us by Air Canada: Use Aeroplan Miles to submit offers for […]

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Use Instacart to circumvent Loblaw stores non-acceptance of Amex and to earn 5x points with the Cobalt Card

Last week we had our reader TitaniumTux let us know that Instacart is finally coding properly as a eats and drinks merchant with American Express. And do you know what that means? That means you can now earn your American Express Cobalt Card category multiplier for shopping at Loblaw”s family of stores:  Loblaws, Real Canadian […]

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Amazon Canada temporarily unavailable via AIR MILES Shops

When we were posting about the new bonus offer for shopping via airmilessshops.ca this morning there was a new pop up on the shopping portal’s site: “ATTENTION: Starting March 23, 2020, and until further notice, Amazon will temporarily be unavailable through airmilesshops.ca due to the impact of COVID-19. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience […]

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Great News – Scotiabank postpones planned increase to select non-travel point redemption options

Last week we brought you the news that Scotiabank was raising the point requirements for select non-travel point redemption options – namely Points for Credit, Gift Cards and Apple/Best Buy Catalogues. In that post we stated the following: “It really sucks when redemption rates get nerfed like this and it’s taking place at a really […]

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