TL;DR IT'S BACK!!! Not as lucrative as before, but 25% bonus on MR transfer to Avios.


ENJOY 25% MORE AVIOS
when you transfer your Membership Rewards® points to Avios
by September 30, 2015

AVOIS Transfer your Membership Rewards points to Avios and redeem for flight rewards worldwide with British Airways or any one of their oneworld®* alliance partners, as well as hotel stays, car rentals, experiences, and more.

A minimum of 1000 points must be transferred.

Transfer your Membership Rewards points to Avios – the currency of the British Airways Executive Club.

You'll soon have enough Avios to spend on all of the travel things you love, including reward flights and cabin upgrades with British Airways or any one of their oneworld® alliance partners.

SPECIAL OFFER
From June 25, 2015 until September 30, 2015, get 25% more Avios when you transfer your Membership Rewards® points to Avios.

For example:
• 1,000 Membership Rewards points = 1,000 1,250 Avios
• 30,000 Membership Rewards points = 30,000 37,500 Avios
• 50,000 Membership Rewards points = 50,000 62,500 Avios

A minimum transfer of 1,000 Membership Rewards points is required.

Collect 40,000 Avios and you could be redeeming a return trip from Toronto to London.*

Find out more at ba.com/executive-club.

*Reward bookings are subject to availability and cannot be waitlisted. Taxes, fees and carrier charges apply. 40,000 Avios based on Peak Economy return fare from London to Toronto. British Airways terms and conditions apply. For full details visit http://www.britishairways.com/execut...and-conditions.

Please allow a minimum of 5 business days for your Membership Rewards points to be transferred to Avios.

Yup we know. See 1 page up

and the AMEX MR 25% thread is here

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-2015-a-3.html

Can anyone speak to the churnability of the BMO Air Miles World MasterCard?

My wife signed up for it mainly for the bonus miles + 25% discount on booking rewards, which on a family booking adds up to a substantial number of points.

Now our winter holiday is out as my wife is due to give birth around New Year's. If she cancels the card this fall, what are the odds that she can cancel, sign up again and get the bonus? Or could I sign up and just use her AM number? (I currently have the BMO World Elite MC, but have never had the BMO AM card... other than this one card, I am not that familiar with BMO and its CC practices.)

I'd be grateful to hear anyone's experiences with this... what I read could affect my strategy for accumulating Air Miles :)

I'd think it's churnable as long as there's no "no repeat welcome bonus" clause like the BMO World Elite ($300 bonus)

For AM, I'd recommend churning AMEX Air Miles Platinum instead
2000 AM after $500, FYF. I think GCR gives $30 cashback now? unless you use a referral (500 AM referral bonus)

You can each get one by referring each other, repeat-and-rinse

Yeah, I've been alternating back and forth with the Amex Air Miles Plat/Gold for the last year or so.

The nice thing about the BMO World AM MC is that you also get a 25% discount off redemptions in addition to the 2000 AMs for signing up, so for a family redemption it makes quite a difference. Although I do recall reading that the card was recently "enhanced" so as to make the 25% discount apply only to NA redemptions... obviously a huge hit to any hardcore AM collectors who were planning family trips overseas.

is 25% on top of AM Gold discounts (sometimes 30-40% with WS/AC)?

but yeah, either way, I probably won't redeem AM for flights (which still need $$$ co-pay)

IMO, Air Miles program is worse than Aeroplan/Avios :D

I don't know how many of these actually exist. The big issue with AM is that they charge fuel surcharges on every ticket not just specific carriers like Aeroplan. Doesn't make much sense to burn through a huge chunk of miles to save ~150-200$/ticket to Europe, while you might actually save more than that using less miles with NA redemptions.

(I know, YQ is lower on NA-Asia flights, but still.)

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15K points or $100 cashback

I thought only Premier Mastercards could convert their points to airline miles.

That seems to be the case

https://www.hsbc.ca/1/2/personal/ban...ewards-program

Only Premier and Premier World have FF miles option

Thanks for the clarification. I deleted my post.

Do CIBC aero biz cards get delivered to the closest branch, home or a branch of your choosing?

Mine came to my home

Home.

But if you are not an existing CIBC client, or if they feel it within their fancy to make you go to a branch to pick it up (eg., perhaps to clarify/confirm some ID issues), then they'll call to let you know and you can then choose the branch that it would get sent to.

I don't bank with CIBC, but I have two long-time no-fee CCs with them. A couple of years ago, when I applied for my very first Aerogold Infinite Visa card, CIBC insisted I go into a branch to pick it up. After that, and 6 or 7 new CIBC CC's strewn in my vapour trail, I have never had to go back into a branch to show my ugly mug to them. :p

Wife and I just applied and we don't deal with CIBC at all.

They are making us go to a branch and pick them up. Wife picked her up today. Already did 1st purchase on her card and waiting for the 20K now. :D

They haven't called for my card yet but I am going to go check tomorrow to see if mine is there. Sometimes they get lazy and don't call you.

2 more Aeroplan cards to eventually add to my dead CC Collection.

man this Amex turning non-business cards into once in a lifetime bonus news sucks :(

I just transferred all of mine over a couple of months ago...whaaaaahhhh! :(

Has this been confirmed yet?

I just applied to see what would happen. That does suck, though.

there's a thread about it over in Amex, yeah. People have applied through referrals to see if it also applies to those, as those T&C haven't been updated yet... but that's probably just an oversight. We'll see. but yeah, seems like it. :/

I'm still going to try to churn the BMO World Elite and get the bonus via the upgrade/downgrade game with the same account over the period of 2-3 years. I'm currently on a downgrade and will try to upgrade to that card next year and see if they have a record of it! I'll let everyone know if I was successful!!! :p

i tried upgrading back a tad under 7 months and did not receive the bonus.

It's been almost 3 years since I've held that card, so it will be interesting to see if they still have that on record and I don't get the bonus either. I'll be sure to post my results! :)

Applied for Gold rewards and got approved. Will wait to see if my wife gets the referral bonus and if I get my bonus.

On a side note, if bonuses are lifetime now, what's the next best way to accumulate points for a Singapore air F award ticket?

Uh. Aeroplan were never the miles to do it with in the first place, so at least nothing's changed there :)

Personal opinion but don't bother with SQ F. It's a massively aspirational, and because of that, a massively disappointing experience. Set your sights lower and enjoy more. Just my two cents.

How quick would the 40k Amex bonus for the business gold card post - not a big rush or anything, but would it be feasible to get them in time before the 1.25 MR to Avios ends on Sept. 30?

I'd probably be able to hit the 5k spend requirement by August 5.

my amex bonus hit like a day after I reached spend, so that's totally realistic.

And mine hit 8 weeks later. So it kind of varies.

Ranges from next day to 8-10 weeks. Nobodys knows for sure
It was about a month for me, between 2 billing cycles

Aug 5 to Sep 30, you should be okay
make sure your Avios account is linked already by then

I've been waiting for over a month... I've been assured by their reps that they're good for it, so I'm not too worried about it - yet.

My 30k bonus posted the day after I hit the minimum spend. Still waiting for the extra 10k (I applied through a referral link.. not holding my breath for that one as that was a self-referral and I already received the 10k referral bonus on my other card).

Transfer your SPG points to Singapore. And I disagree with the previous poster: SQ F is one of the truly great flight experiences you will ever have, and well worth the points! I've flown it several times. Get the A-380, from Singapore to NA. Give yourself ample time to fully enjoy The Private Room at Changi. Try to book a middle seat and hope that no one is next to you so you can sleep on the only double bed in the sky. Pre-order your Lobster Thermidor, and enjoy one of the most cool, fun experiences of your life! My 2 cents...

RBC Avion posting time
 

Does anyone know how quickly RBC Rewards points post to the Avion card? Do the points accrue immediately at time of purchase, or monthly with statement?

Monthly with statement.

I know the EXACT answer to this question, because I've been following closely for my Avion ==> Avios transfer.

Points are calculated and accrued at the time of your statement.
BUT points show up on your RBC Avion account (and then are ready for transfer) the following day - but usually later in the day.

For example, here's what happened with mine just yesterday:

July 8, 2015 - Statement generated
July 9, 2015 10am - Points not showing yet
July 9, 2015 4pm - Point showing on account - transferred to Avios

I don't know if this could be useful to anyone for their MS, but, one might want to look at tiomobilepay versus Plastiq when it comes to cost.
$2.99 for $350 (or 3.99 for 500) at tiopay versus 2.5% at plastiq.
I do not know if they do accept CT, but, for roughly a cost of 0.35% it seems one could MS. (0.85% cost - 0.5% reward from CT and earn miles/points in the process). Anyway, just for the MSers out there... If this works, I have not checked (nor will).

Tio doesn't take Amex (the $5000 on the amex business card is the most compelling reason for MS) and it's american, so the payees are american and unless you're using a chase card, you'll pay a 2.5% foreign exchange fee.

There you go, figured with their address being in Vancouver they were Canadian ... USD you're saying. Thanks for the info.

TD aeroplan card promotion
 

TD aeroplan card promotion - 1st year annual fee waived,
25000 Aeroplan miles after $1000 spend

http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/product...filiate_b.jsp?

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