Originally Posted by
jerry305
(CIBC Aventura Visa Infinite Card)
Signup bonus:
30,000 bonus Aventura Points.
Purchase requirement: 3 merchant purchases; no dollar amount stated.
Short-haul flights:
10,000 Aventura Points & up;
Long-haul flights: 25,000 Aventura Points & up.
Link to new Aventura rewards chart
Annual fee: $120.
First year free?: No.
(EDIT, to add... ) Ability to transfer to Aeroplan: Not mentioned at all.
Link:
https://www.cibc.com/ca/features/ave...aPointsOffer-E
Huh. It turns out that the 10,000 points "and up" for short haul rewards really means "not really".
YWG to YYZ is 17,000 to 20,000 points. The number of points changes for every possible flight. The chart works out to approximately 2 Aventura points for every dollar of round trip fare. So instead of 30,000 points being 3 short haul flights, it's going to be 1, with points leftover.
My plan is to (try to) just convert all my Aventura points to Aeroplan, before December 31. Since points have to be converted in increments of 10,000, rather than just a minimum of 10,000, it makes sense for me to just convert all 30,000 now.
https://www.cibcaventura.com/eng/faq.aspx