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An executive based in Vancouver, Canada, he enjoys maximizing the use of airline and hotel award points in order to “Upgrade Your Travels”. His travels have led him to over 75 countries and over 1,000,000 miles flown. When he’s not on the road, he can often be found in his second adopted home in Whistler, Canada. He chronicles his personal and business travel adventures, advice, upgrade tips, tricks and secrets here…
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Air Canada has launched a pretty lucrative promotion on it’s Air Canada Gift Cards. The promotion allows gift card purchasers to earn up to an additional three Aeroplan points per dollar. Under the right circumstances, this can be stacked with the right credit card making for an excellent deal for those with up coming fall travel. The offer is very time limited, so you’ll only have until the middle of next week… Read More
Innovative: Canadian Red Cross Launches Promotion with Air Canada; Earn Aeroplan Points on Donations
This unique promotion which we saw last year has returned for September 2023. Along with all these recent forest fires, storms and natural disasters, if you happen to feel charitable, here is a great way of earning some Aeroplan points to go along with your donation to the Canadian Red Cross. I have to hand it to to the Canadian Red Cross for an interesting promotion opportunity that also happens makes you… Read More
Air Canada has announced fall season cuts on many non stop routes from Calgary International Airport in the Province of Alberta, Canada. The city will be impacted by the service suspension of many domestic, transborder and international routes. Primarily, those most impacted will be Calgary’s business travellers who will now have to take a connecting flight in order to stay loyal to Air Canada, or switch to Westjet if they are insistent… Read More
Marriott typically offers a spring and fall promotion that aligns with the business travel season. While we saw a spring promotion earlier this year that was pretty reasonable with a double elite qualifying night credit, this one is pretty lack luster. It only takes a moment to register for a Marriott promotion, so read on to see what Marriott is offering it’s fall travellers when staying at Marriott Bonvoy hotels. Marriott Bonvoy… Read More
Porter Airlines Offers Air Canada Aeroplan Elites a Status Match & 2024 Status Challenge to VIPorter
Porter Airlines is looking to carve out it’s share of the business travel market by going up against heavy weight Air Canada. Through recent expansion, it has added flights to its’ network in regions that Air Canada has cut or reduced frequencies. Porter Airlines has offered a status match and status challenge offer directly targeting Air Canada Elites. You’ll have to act fact in order to get in on this offer. Read… Read More
Air Canada Aeroplan offers a birthday bonus offer that arrives on every frequent flier program members birthday. We have seen this offer arrive for the past several years, although the content of the offer can change somewhat, dependent on the local travel conditions and partnerships that exist with Air Canada at the time of the offer. As. an easy way to gain some savings or Aeroplan points, I thought that I would… Read More
The credit card space is a competitive one that is designed to attract consumers through lucrative sign up bonuses and retention offers. In a bit of a surprise move, MBNA has offered it’s MBNA Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan credit card holders a sign up bonus for sticking with their new MBNA Rewards Mastercard. The bonus is tiered, dependent on how much you had spent on the card in previous months ahead. Read… Read More
Every now and then, we get to see an act of generosity in the frequent flier program market place. The most recent example of this is Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan’s generous treatment of it’s elite members that were recently impacted by the MBNA Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Mastercard being cancelled. Alaska Airlines has offered a generous transition offer for it’s Alaska Mileage Plan elite members in order to retain their business in… Read More
Air Canada has launched it’s latest Aeroplan promotion. Air Canada’s Aeroplan is offering additional miles for flights to New Zealand from Canada. Aeroplan is offering an additional ten thousand Aeroplan miles for flights booked in economy class and up to twenty five thousand miles for flights in Business Class. The promotion runs throughout the Southern Hemisphere summer season, although registration and purchase needs to happen by August 29, 2023. Air Canada Offering… Read More
The Toronto Dominion Visa Aeroplan credit card has been coming out with several offers this quarter in order to engage and entice its’s credit card holders to use the card. We’ve seen several points promotions lately which are encouraging TD Visa Aeroplan card holders to use their cards at specific merchants. This most recent offer covers the fall period when many kids and young adults are headed back to school. Targeted Offer:… Read More
In order to cope with increasing costs associated with delivering an internationally recognized premium card, American Express has hit their Canadian Platinum Charge Card holders with a steep annual fee increase. They have off set this increase with a modest series of credits that will require some work and study in order to get your value out of them. Dependent on your perspective, the changes range from fair to outright bad. Let’s… Read More
By now, we’ve all seen the devastation that’s occurred in Maui, Hawaii, USA when weather patterns from Hurricane Dora to the south, combined with tradewinds from the north, caused a perfect storm of wildfires in Western Maui. The wildfires destroyed almost 80% of the historic town of Lahania in Western Maui. Ironically, I am posting this from the nearby Big Island of Hawaii where I find myself on a short vacation. Having… Read More
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