January 10 Update: IHG changes Best Rate Guarantee, Lufthansa A350 to fly YVR-MUC route, Air France seat sale to Asia

IHG has changed their best rate guarantee from offering the first night free on a succesful claim to now offering up to 40,000 points. Over the years most hotel chain’s BRGs have been tightened and harder to take advantage of. (HT YHBU) 1. Under the Program (as further described below), if you book a hotel room […]

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Air France KLM Flying Blue Promo Awards – Save 25% on Business Class award tickets between Calgary or Edmonton and Europe

The newest set of Air France KLM’s Promo Awards were released at the end of December and this time we only see two Canadian cities in the promotion. With promo awards the discount ranges from 25 to 50% off the regular amount of miles required to redeem for these flights. As you can see just […]

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December 12 Update: Delta SkyMiles lowers earning rates on partner airlines, World of Hyatt category changes, Air France Seat Sale

Delta SkyMiles is lowering the amount of SkyMiles earned on many of their partner airlines in select fare classes. For example, here is a comparison of what you earn flying on WestJet now and after the changes take effect on January 1. The good news is that WestJet flights will now count towards Medallion qualifying […]

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December 7 Update: Amex Cobalt Confirmed Multiplier Locations (help us build the list), Alaska Airlines & Air France KLM part ways, IHG Accelerate Returns

Alright Cobalters! We need your help! Rewards Canada reader Hossam M. asked if there is a published list of merchants where you can earn the 5x (10x for this month) multiplier with the American Express Cobalt card. We know that Amex doesn’t publish one so based on Hossam’s question we created a page to track […]

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Air France KLM Flying Blue Promo Awards – Save 25% on Business Class award tickets between Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver & Europe

The newest set of Air France KLM’s Promo Awards were released last night (you would have seen our post on our global site if you follow it) and this time we see three Canadian cities in the promotion! With promo awards the discount ranges from 25 to 50% off the regular amount of miles required […]

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November 24 Update: Call in to book WestJet flights with Flying Blue Miles, recognition from Canalta Hotels & Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals

Here is a further update to the WestJet and Air France KLM partnership. We have been wanting to write a post about using Flying Blue miles for WestJet flights however their online booking engine is not grabbing WestJet flights yet. They have updated their partner page for WestJet stating that you have to Call in […]

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November 15 Update: WestJet Rewards becoming a real contender, YYC to YYZ via AMS on Air France KLM & 2 new Canadian Marriott stay bonuses

This is just me thinking out loud here….. WestJet Rewards and Air France KLM Flying Blue finally announced reciprocal redemption from their respective reward programs today. We covered using WestJet dollars on AF KLM earlier today and this is great news that I wanted to talk about more. The ever expanding capacity of WestJet Rewards […]

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