I really enjoyed this card, but after I reaped the sign-up rewards (which also included the Priority Pass membership and 4 lounge passes) I couldn't justify keeping it and having to pay the annual fee, so I downgraded it to a no-fee card (it's a long standing account of mine). It's nice to have the lounge passes as an annual incentive, but I much prefer the Cap One Aspire MC where I get $350 worth of points sign-up and $150 worth of points a year (with a lower annual fee, to boot).

You need to remove the colon (like I did above) at the end of your link for RBC Avion points and conversion to AA miles; otherwise, it won't work.

Aeroplan eStore 5x
 

Aeroplan eStore is offering 5x Aeroplan miles on purchases until October 28.
https://www3.aeroplan.com/estore/

Thanks to Canadian Kilometers blog for pointing this one out.

1000 Aeroplan through RaceWings game
 

Air Canada is running their Earn Your Wings promotion.

If you registered early (before September 24) for the promotion, earning 1000 Aeroplan points is easy.

1. (If you haven't already), create a new Facebook account (so that your posts won't annoy all your friends).
2. Using the link on the Air Canada Earn Your Wings website, make posts to your Facebook account about how great the promo is. Maybe split those posts over a few days.

This worked for me; I earned enough RaceWings points to generate 1000 Aeroplan miles. And I annoyed 0 friends, because I have told 0 friends about that particular Facebook account.

If you did not register early, you can still earn enough points to almost reach the 1000 miles threshold. One transaction of almost any travel activity (hotel stay, car rental, flight) should be enough to get you the 1000 point bonus.


http://earnyourwings.aircanada.com/en

https://www.rbcrewards.com/convert-points.html?tab=ba

Now, that makes me wish I had an RBC card!

would rather convert with 25% bonus to aa

We haven't seen a 25% bonus in a little while.

Now it is 20%.

One last hurrah for CIBC Aerogold cardholders?

CIBC and Air Canada are teaming up to bring you 3X the Aeroplan Miles - exclusively for CIBC Aerogold® Visa Infinite™ or CIBC Aerogold® Visa™ cardholders.

From October 30 to November 26, 2013, earn 3X the miles when purchasing your Air Canada flights at aircanada.com and paying with your CIBC Aerogold® Visa Infinite™ or CIBC Aerogold® Visa™ card.

http://www4.aeroplan.com/promotions/...up3848_AC_CIBC

my bad, 20. still better give this is the only way to get aa through spend in canada.

True...but...isn't it still better to collect and do bonus transfers to Avios and then book AA through BA? I thought it was a better deal? It is for AA flights I want, anyway...

short haul direct y is better with ba. but as you know i like international first class so I like aa a lot more. The thing is, amex transfers to ba with 50% anyways, and i have plenty enough amex mr and ba already in my account.
i hope i didn't just jinx the promo next march, haha.

Just for information sake, RBC Avion also has a 25% transfer bonus to WestJet Rewards going on right now. I would still pick BA or AA over this one though!

Hi yerffej, is amex canada currently running this promotion? (I couldn't find it) If not, do you know how often does this promotion occur? When can we expect it ?

This year, the Amex MR to BA Avios 50% bonus came up in March and May (if I recall correctly). I was hoping to see one come up this fall, but.... :td:

They didn't have on at this time last year I think. don't think htere will be one this year.

Here is THE history thread on RFD, thanks to crimsona for the hard work

Avion/American Express/Other partners to Aeroplan/BA/AA point transfer promo history
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/avion...story-1138250/

Only AMEX MR > Avios at 150% is March 2013

IHG / Holiday Inns Pointbreaks
 

There's a new batch of PointBreak hotel room specials from IHG / Holiday Inns.

PointBreaks are reward stays available for only 5,000 points. There's a method, explained elsewhere, where IHG members who already have at least 5,000 points can buy 5,000 points for US $40, or buy 10,000 points for US $70.

Hotels in Canada:
ONTARIO
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS AND SUITES TIMMINS
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS PEMBROKE
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS AND SUITES WOODSTOCK SOUTH
HOLIDAY INN GUELPH HOTEL & CONFERENCE CTR
HOLIDAY INN KITCHENER-WATERLOO CONF. CTR.
HOLIDAY INN TORONTO-MISSISSAUGA

US & OVERSEAS:
See their website

Thank you for this! ^

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

Aeroplan: 20% conversion bonus (Nov 11-Dec 9)
 

http://www3.aeroplan.com/static/gfx/...7_step3_en.jpg

Aeroplan's 20% conversion bonus promotion is back on.
Promotion starts today, November 11, until December 9.

Includes most hotel & car partners. Excludes American Express Membership Rewards and CIBC Aventura.

More details at:
http://www3.aeroplan.com/promotions/..._webup3867a_AE

Great. I guess we can permanently discount Amex as a 25% bonus partner from hereon forward.

I'm tempted to convert my Wyndham rewards... but it seems like a poor idea given hotels often provide more value than Aeroplan these days, heh.

Looks like Esso->Club Sobeys conversion is ending (good times when they had a 5X point bonus coupled with Sobeys 5X bonus...... that was a LOT of Aeroplans in a short window, hehe).

The email I received states that they will match the # of Esso Points collected and deposit the same amount into my Esso account. Anybody know whether this means I should retain my Sobeys auto-conversion, OR whether I should turn it off and collect Esso which they will then double up? Very confusing.

This is bad news. Where did you hear Sobeys is going to be not transferable to Aeromiles. and when ?

Wait wait I didn't say Sobeys won't transfer to Aeropesos. I said Esso won't auto-transfer to Sobeys anymore. Which generally wasn't a good deal anyway UNLESS some kind of specials happened.

FWIW I just called to cancel my Aerogold and she agreed to waive my AF for next year without any fuss at all. I have several CIBC products so I think my card will stay with them after TD takes over.

Hopefully this portends some healthy competition btw CIBC and TD for Aeroplan spend and we'll see some good promos in 2014.

Cheers

Thank you, that would have been worse then the market going down 10%...Sobeys is great the way it works (or the way I work it) I was in a panic there.

That's good! I just can't wait to see what offers TD will have for us next year.

is it possible to transfer BMO master card points to aeroplan miles?

unfortunately not.

The BMO World Elite MC caught my eye until I realized the 2% to spend on travel is captive through BMO's booking site. Why do they insist on this? I fly on Aeroplan miles and use VRBO. And if I do pay for flights its usually the inter-island puddle jumpers, won't see SVG air on those booking engines! I'll stick with the Capital One Aspire MC, no BS, no games. Just a really low credit limit... nothing's perfect.

Yes I got this email too.. I was happily collecting points through sobeys..

is there any other grocery store with aeroplan points /conversion?

is there any additional fee for small business card?

Earn one Aeroplan Mile for every dollar spent at Costco
 

Earn one Aeroplan Mile for every dollar spent at Costco
http://www.costco.ca/aeroplan-electronics.html

Earn upto 1500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles with new Costco Membership
 

Earn upto 1500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles with new Costco Membership
http://www.costco.ca/aeroplan-membership-signup.html

Thanks for the list :)

IHG (48-Hour) Flash Sale - November 18th at 10am EST - November 20th, 10am EST
 

IHG (48-Hour) Flash Sale - November 18th at 10am EST - November 20th, 10am EST

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Bonnyville (66% Off)

Holiday Inn Calgary-Macleod Trail S. (25% Off)

Holiday Inn Express Edson (75% Off)

Holiday Inn Grande Prairie-Conf. Center (75% Off)

Holiday Inn Express Lethbridge (25% Off)

Holiday Inn West Edmonton (25% Off)

Holiday Inn Kamloops (25% Off)

Holiday Inn Express Toronto-East (25% Off)

Holiday Inn Truro (75% Off)

http://community.ihg.com/t5/Promotio...Sale/m-p/32895

Westjet launches service to Dublin :)

But be careful because when I checked on Westjet's site I found this:

"Seasonal service to and from Dublin, Ireland (DUB) starts Jun 15, 2014 and ens Oct 5, 2014"