Delta Skymiles are often ridiculed for being low value and moving the industry dangerously to a revenue based model, but they sometimes are quite useful, given that American, United, and Aeroplan have all devalued in the past few years. I received a neat email where Delta is discounting the miles required for economy class trips…
Air Canada Altitude for Students
One of the things you should always do in the miles and points world is pick up low hanging fruit. Along with signing up for the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite which comes with 30,000 bonus Aeroplan miles, I realized I hadn’t signed up for Air Canada Altitude Students. Air Canada Altitude Students Benefits Air Canada Altitude…
RBC British Airways 50000 Bonus Offer!
Disclaimer: Please be aware that offers for credit cards referenced in this post may have changed since the time of publication. The RBC British Airways 50000 Avios Offer is back! RBC issues a British Airways co-branded card, and annually they’ve had an increased bonus of 50,000 Avios on their Visa Infinite card. This further heats up…
Alaska Responds with an FAQ on Emirates Redemption Devaluation
Alaska has just released an FAQ on their corporate blog that addresses a lot of questions regarding the Emirates Award Redemption last night. If you’ve missed this morning’s news, Alaska MileagePlan released a new award chart for Emirates business and first class redemptions, doubling some redemption prices. For example, North America to Africa is now…
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Devalues Emirates Redemptions
This is a shocker. It looks like today Alaska has changed the award chart for redemptions on Emirates Business and First Class for the worst. I always liked to imagine that believing airlines would stay loyal to their award charts is a bit like expecting BP to not raise their gas prices. Like BP though, this…
American Express Platinum Card Canada Incredible Offer!
Disclaimer: Please be aware that offers for credit cards referenced in this post may have changed since the time of publication and may no longer be available. Please click the links to view the most current offer. The American Express Platinum Card is one of my favourite Canadian credit cards.I’ve had it for a few…
All About Lifemiles (Updated)
The latest news going around is that LifeMiles has finally done what every other frequent flyer program in the world does, and allow customers to mixed different cabin classes on award bookings. However, hidden in these changes are some other crucial changes to LifeMiles, especially how the routes are calculated. So, while LifeMiles allowing mixed…
A Few Updates… and a PointsU Recap
So… I’m back. I know it’s been quite a few months of intermittent posting, but I had some personal issues going on which finally are not interrupting my blogging schedule. I definitely look forward to be posting great content soon and more frequently. As many of you know, I spoke at the PointsU conference this…
Giveaway: PointsU Ticket!
In the US miles/points world, conferences are quite popular, but we’ve never had one dedicated for Canadians. I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at Points University next year! About PointsU The conference will be on January 16th, 2016, at the Sheraton Wall Center Vancouver. It will be a one day event with me and…
Reminder: Aeroplan Devalues December 15th!
Aeroplan is one of my favourite programs, because for quite a long time it has always had the best award redemption values to Europe in business and first class. This will change on December 15th, when Aeroplan devalues their award chart. If you don’t have enough Aeroplan miles, remember that American Express transfers instantly at…
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