News, Tips & Tricks RBC launched a new rewards credit card this week (this is not the card I mentioned earlier this week), albeit not a travel rewards one but nonetheless a rewards card! The card is the RBC Shoppers Optimum MasterCard which obviously is tied to the Shoppers Drug Mart loyalty program Shoppers Optimum. […]
Tag: Delta SkyMiles
Sep 5 Update: Delta SkyMiles raises some award ticket requirements, Emirates Sep Miles Accelerator offers and more
News, Tips & Tricks Delta Airlines silently raised some award ticket redemption rates over the weekend with no advance notice. While most increases from programs tend to be on the lower end rewards this one is the opposite as reported by Gary @ View from the Wing: ‘Medium’ level coach awards between the US and […]
Capital One enhances the Delta SkyMiles® World MasterCard® (now earns 2 SkyMiles/$)
You may recall a teaser tweet I sent out last week about some good changes to the Delta SkyMiles® World MasterCard® from Capital One. Well Cap One has given us the go ahead to release the details as existing cardholders should be receiving the information this week. To put it bluntly, this is the first Airline […]
Options outside of Aeroplan and Air Miles. Part 1: Frequent Flyer Programs
The majority of Canada’s loyalty program market share is held by two programs, Aeroplan and Air Miles. While both programs have strong roots in travel they have grown into what the industry calls coalition loyalty programs, which in layman’s terms means many earning partners and a varied rewards catalog. Its hard not to be a […]
Delta to resume Toronto-Boston service
Delta is bringing back their non-stop service between Toronto and Boston. The 2x daily flights will begin on November 6th and will be flown with a Pinnacle Airlines CRJ200 Once again, thanks to Airline Route Updates for the info.
Delta eliminates changes/refunds to award tickets inside 72 hours
According to this post by Wandering Aramean, Delta will no longer permit changes or refund miles for SkyMiles award tickets that within 72 hours of departure. The new policy took effect on August 15th and applies to all members including elites. What this means is that you can no longer hold a reward booking with […]
News Round Up: Aeroplan, Xiamen Airlines, Delta, United and Malaysia Airlines
With quite a few new developments in the airline and travel rewards industry I thought it would be better to round up all the news snippets in one blog post rather then inundating you with multiple posts. Aeroplan now providing status of 7 Year Old non-redeemed miles Tying in to some of our earlier blog […]