May 11 Update: Air Canada Earn Your Wings returns on Monday, fly to Florence for C$699 with KLM, up to 25,000 AAdvantage miles on Transatlantic flights

News, Tips & Tricks Air Canada’s Earn Your Wings promotion returns this Monday! All we have to go on is the info from AC Earn Your Wings twitter account but if the past few years are any indication it will only be available to AC Altitude members. Posts since our last update: American AAdvantage: Earn […]

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March 21 Update: Marriott back on top for Starwood takeover, last day to book American AAdvantage awards at old rates, CIBC Cash Back card offer

News, Tips & Tricks Wow the Starwood sale saga sure is exciting! News broke this weekend that Marriott made a counter offer to Anbang’s offer that Starwood accepted last week and this new Marriott offer has now been accepted by Starwood! Now we wait to see if Anbang will coutner the counter offer! (Source Reuters) […]

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American AAdvantage offering Executive Platinum status for those who have United Premier 1K status – no challenge required – meant for Brazil but others are getting it!

I originally posted this on the Frequent Flyer Bonuses blog but think it is newsworthy enough for us here in Canada as I know there a few of you here in the Great White North who are United Premier 1Ks! Try out the Skype call to AA Brazil to see if you can get your […]

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American AAdvantage changes coming in 2016 – Most of it isn’t good news and its worse for Canadians than our US counterparts

 To say this wasn’t expected would be a lie. For the past two weeks their have been inklings on many blogs and forums due to leaked info that the American AAdvantage program would be changing in 2016. We now have confirmation from American Airlines themselves that the AAdvantage program will change. Even before the rumours […]

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