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There’s a new 100,000 point offer for the Air Canada Aeroplan® Credit Card. (See rates and fees)
- earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months your account is open.
- Plus, 25,000 bonus points after you spend $20,000 on purchases in the first 12 months.
This is a $95 annual fee card that earns 3X at grocery stores, at restaurants, and with Air Canada. You also earn 500 bonus points for every $2,000 spent on the card in a calendar month, up to 1,500 points per month. Do that all in 3x categories at exact $2,000 thresholds and you’re effectively earning 3.25x in those categories.
Naturally cardmembers get free first checked bag (for the cardmember and up to 8 others people on same reservation). But the card also comes with the first tier of Aeroplan elite status (25K level) for the remainder of the calendar year in which the card is open and for the following calendar year. ($15,000 spend in a calendar year keeps that status.)
The loyalty program has more airline partners than anyone else, from United and Star Alliance to Oman Air in oneworld, Emirates and Etihad. And they’re a transfer partner of most currencies as well, meaning it’s an easy program to accumulate with from all sorts of sources, pooling points in one place.
While I don’t think it’s an especially lucrative program to earn points in by flying, it’s a great redemption program for sure.
Gary, you may wanna also include the 85,000 offer (also $4,000 spend), for those who cannot fathom a $20,000 spend requirement.
The loyalty program has more airline partners than anyone else, from United and Star Alliance to Oman Air in oneworld, Emirates and Etihad
United – non existant
Oman – phantom
Etihad – blocked
Emirates – crazy dynamic pricing
TG,CA,ET,NH and others – blocked
@Parnel — Some folks love to gripe about Air Canada, but their program, Aeroplan, is indeed a good one, and the awards with partners, as well as the transfers from most credit card/bank programs (Amex, Chase, etc.) makes it quite versatile. Like, technically, you never have to even visit Canada for this to be worthwhile. That said, Canada’s lovely, and AC is a decent airline, too (so long as you stay away from their ancient CRJs, and avoid Y on their wide-bodies for long-haul, because the 773, in 3-4-3 configuration, is pretty tight back there.)
@1990.
The program is good on paper.
Majority of partners are blocked “temporarily”