I'm not sure I agree with that. SQ has good redemptions for their own metal (although they've devalued recently) but they do not upgrade SQ Golds (even PPS is a hit and miss), so I'm not sure if there's ANY benefit to having status through them. If anything, Aegean is possibly an easier program to get status in, if you can get the A3 metal flight requirement.

If you want miles that are actually worth redeeming somewhere, United, despite all its faults, is still a viable program.

For me, my next strategy is to save AMEX MR, transfer to SPG, and then to Marriott Travel Packages.

Weird. Applied for the AS card through GCR on May 12. App errors out. Didn't give it a second thought. Then today, got the card in the mail! But...no GCR rebate! Anyone else experience this recently, but actually get the rebate?

Went through the AS application process just now and it went all the way through to completion. I'll wait on the GCR referral tracker to see if it gets credited. Any idea how long it would normally take?

I've reported the same thing on the last two pages of this thread.
Check your GCR click history at
https://www.greatcanadianrebates.ca/ClickHistory/ to see if there's history on the day you applied.
The rebate is, of course, not going to show up right away.

SPG nights and flights is also worth checking out.

120,000 AMEX pointas = 60k SPG points + 50k Airline points.

No. The way I read it:

120k Amex = 5 nights cat 3 hotel + 50k airline miles
or
140k Amex = 5 nights cat 4 hotel + 50k airline miles

Cat 3 hotel is 7k SPG per night, and cat 4 is 10k, right? With 5th night free, it means:


56k Amex = 5 nights cat 3 hotel (28k SPG value)
+
64k Amex = 50k airline miles

or

80k Amex = 5 nights cat 4 hotel (40k SPG value)
+
60k Amex = 50k airline miles


I would say this SPG package may only make sense if you really need those 5 nights in that hotel which has very expensive cash rates for those nights, and you don't already have SPG points.

Otherwise, if your main goal is airline miles, then Marriott packages are a better deal.

you're right.

Posted May 14, 2017:
^
I've just received a second Alaska Airlines MBNA MC in the mail; both in the same month. YMMV.
:D

I applied for MBNA Alaska and got an error message at the end.

Today I got a notice from Canada Post from MBNA to confirm my identity. (Even though I already had a previous Alaska MasterCard account and currently have a Best Western card) :rolleyes:

The card will be mailed within 14 days...

Signed up for the RBC Westjet Mastercard a while back.

Today I checked my account at WS and noticed there was an extra 50 Westjet Dollars in my account.

I don't know if it was related to signing up for the card or not.

In any event, if you've got them, they need to be used by 22:59, May 28th.

No, WestJet just does that periodically.

The signup bonus for the WestJet RBC® MasterCard‡ appears to be 50 Westjet dollars.
(The signup bonus for the WestJet RBC® World Elite MasterCard‡ is 250 Westjet dollars.)

Can you point to where it says your rewards dollars need to be used by that specific date & time??

I recently signed up for the World Elite Master Card.

When I went to check yesterday, I noticed that in addition to the 250 dollars that came with it, there was an extra 50, which was set to expire tonight.

It's only that bonus 50 that are set to expire tonight.

Sorry for the confusion.

they do promotions from time to time and add additional WJ dollars with set expiration date but usually they would email you to announce it.