Many of Canada’s travel providers, agencies and tourism boards joined forces in May to create the Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable. What is the Roundtable? It’s best described by them as follow: The Canadian Tourism Roundtable is a cross-Canadian coalition of leaders in the tourism and travel sector – including representatives from airports, airlines, hotels, […]
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June 26 Update: Choice Hotels earn a free night promo won’t start until July 10 for Canadians, 2 new RBC offers & Canadians could possibly visit Europe soon
Early in June we passed along the details of Choice Hotels new where you book 2 stays and earn enough bonus points for a free night. Well it turns out the promotion launched at that time was for the U.S. only even though it did state it was open to Canadian residents. Choice has decided […]
My experience getting a refund from WestJet for cancelled U.S. flights
Earlier this month we let you know that WestJet began to offering refunds for those travellers who had flights to the U.S. and U.K. cancelled by the airline. In the article here we detailed how and when you could approach WestJet for a refund from waiting to get the email from them to the time […]
June 23 Update: Amex Shop Small promotion returns tomorrow, potential to make money with Best Western’s promotions & Dubai to open up on July 7
American Express’ Shop Small promotion returns tomorrow! The ever popular promotion sees cardmembers in select Canadian cities earn a $5 credit or 10x points each time they spend $10 at a participating Shop Small merchant. Those merchants are most of the ones that are not nationwide chains or major retailers. These are your mom and […]
WestJet announces summer flight schedule – 102% increase in flights including the return of select U.S. and Mexico routes
WestJet announced their summer flight schedule yesterday which will see the airline more than double the number of flights they are currently operating. Even with that doubling they will only be flying about a quarter of their schedule that was seen in July 2019. The summer flights include the resumption of some flights to the […]
WestJet will provide refunds for U.S. and U.K. tickets cancelled between March 1 and June 30
Late last week the Canadian media picked up the news that WestJet will begin to offer refunds for those travellers who had flights booked with them for travel to the U.S. or the U.K.. This policy started to emerge slowly in May as it confirms an email that FlyerTalk user rowdyfeifer received stating their U.S. […]
WestJet Rewards elite status policy update – select members whose status expires in June will have it extended
As the end of the month approaches we reached out to WestJet Rewards to see if they have plans to further extend their policy for elite status members as it only covered March, April and May. The current policy was put in place on March 24th and provided elite status extensions and upgrades to those […]