News, Tips & Tricks Air Canada is launching 6 new routes between Canada and the U.S. for 2017. These will all be operated by Air Canada Express. (Source Air Canada) beVancouver is once again offering up American Express Gift Cards for booking your Vancouver hotels via their site! Valid for stays until Feb 28, 17! […]
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Done with AIR MILES? Here are your other options – Part 2 Proprietary Credit Card Reward Programs
As many of you know the AIR MILES Expiring Miles fiasco came to somewhat of a close late last week when they finally dropped their expiry rule after threat of legislation, a damning MarketPlace report and of course 9 months of really bad press. If you watched the MarketPlace piece you’ll have seen members cutting […]
Done with AIR MILES? Here are your other options – Part 1 Coalition Reward Programs
As many of you know the AIR MILES Expiring Miles fiasco came to somewhat of a close late last week when they finally dropped their expiry rule after threat of legislation, a damning MarketPlace report and of course 9 months of really bad press. If you watched the MarketPlace piece you’ll have seen members cutting […]
AIR MILES drops its unpopular expiry policy!
I’m pretty sure most of you have seen this news that came out late Thursday afternoon! What a ride it has been over the past 9 or so month! After so much backlash, bad press, a class action lawsuit, the potential bill to make expiring points illegal and just a day before a scathing report […]
December 1 Update: Thank you to all our readers, listeners, subscribers and sponsors!
News, Tips & Tricks First off we want to thank everyone for participating in the Rewards Canada 15th Anniversary Celebrations! The past 5 weeks have been amazing with 5 contests, 1 booking promotion and 1 free points promotion. Thank you also to all our sponsors: WestJet Rewards, Aeroplan, Points.com, Marriott, American Express and Starwood! Without […]
In reality only a few programs will be affected by the proposal to make points expiry illegal
It has been quite the frenzy over the past 24 hours (we’ve completed 7 interviews and 1 more to go) in regards to the the proposed bill in Ontario that would make the expiration of points and miles illegal. In our post yesterday we wondered if the bill would cover both Expiry and Inactivity Rules […]
New bill in Ontario could make points & miles expiry illegal
The CBC ran another piece on the whole AIR MILES expiry issue today about Bill 47 in Ontario. The bill wants to make it illegal for programs to expire miles. While it would only be in effect for Ontario residents if it passes chances are it would spread across Canada just like the issue of […]