List of Partners per Reward Program for Faster Accumulation

Airline Programs

Aeroplan

Aeroplan and Air Canada Partners

Air Canada is a member of Star Alliance, which is itself an alliance of several airlines. This enables Aeroplan members to travel and earn and/or redeem Aeroplan points with these airlines. There are more than fifty, including United Airlines, Virgin Airlines, SWISS, ANA, Austrian Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, EGYPTAIR, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, and more.

Hotel Partners

Instead of accumulating points in a hotel program, you can change the type of accumulation in your member profile preferences to earn Aeroplan points with:

• Best Western (250 Aeroplan points per reservation)
• Choice Hotels (250 Aeroplan points per reservation)
• Clique Hotels & Resorts (1 Aeroplan point per CAD 1 spent)
• Coast Hotels (250 to 500 Aeroplan points per reservation)
• IHG Hotels & Resorts (up to 2 Aeroplan points per USD 1 spent)
• Marriott Bonvoy (up to 2 Aeroplan points per USD 1 spent)
• Nova Hotels (250 Aeroplan points per reservation)
• Rocketmiles (up to 1,000 Aeroplan points per night)
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts (500 Aeroplan Points per reservation)
• Silver Hotel Group (1 Aeroplan point per CAD 1 spent)
• Steele Hotels (1 Aeroplan point per CAD 1 spent)
• Wyndham Rewards (up to 2 Aeroplan points per USD 1 spent)

Don’t forget the latest benefits of the Marriott Bonvoy and Aeroplan partnership! Get a status match and you can transfer your Aeroplan points to Marriott Bonvoy.

Parking

• Park & Jet Calgary (up to 199 Aeroplan points per booking)
• Park’N Fly (up to 150 Aeroplan points per reservation)
• YUL Aéroports de Montréal (up to 1,000 Aeroplan points per booking)

Rental Cars

• AVIS (up to 2 Aeroplan Points for every CAD 1 spent)
• Budget (up to 2 Aeroplan points per CAD 1 spent)
• Payless (up to 2 Aeroplan points per CAD 1 spent)

Everyday Shopping

• American Express, TD and CIBC (via Aeroplan credit cards)
• AmeriSpec (Up to 1,000 Aeroplan points)
• AskingCanadians (125 Aeroplan points for answering the first survey)
• Atlas Van Lines (Up to 3,500 Aeroplan points)
• e-Rewards (250 Aeroplan points for completing the first survey)
• LCBO (Bonus points on certain products and 1 Aeroplan point for every CAD 4 spent)
• LEO (150 Aeroplan points by completing the first survey)
• Manulife (Manulife group insurance participants)
• Novus (1 Aeroplan point per CAD 2 spent)
• Nutri-lawn (1 Aeroplan point per CAD 2 spent)
• Journie Rewards (by linking your Aeroplan account to Journie Rewards)
• Starbucks (by linking your Aeroplan account to Starbucks Rewards)
• The UPS Store (1 Aeroplan point per CAD 1 spent)
• Uber and Uber Eats (by linking your Aeroplan account to Uber)

Avios

Avios is the points currency associated with the British Airways Executive Club loyalty program.

British Airways is a member of Oneworld, an alliance of several airlines. This enables members to travel and accumulate and/or redeem Avios points with a number of airlines, including Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Japan Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Oman Air, Fiji Airways and others.

Hotel Partners

Instead of accumulating points in a hotel program, you can change the type of accumulation in your member profile preferences to accumulate Avios points with:

• ALL – Accor Live Limitless (2.5 Avios points for every €2 spent)
• Airbnb (2 Avios points for every £1/€1/USD spent)
• IHG Hotels & Resorts (up to 2 points per USD 1 spent)
• Marriott Bonvoy (up to 2 points for every USD 1 spent)

Flying Blue

Flying Blue is the Air France and KLM frequent flyer program.

Air France and KLM are members of SkyTeam, which is an alliance of several airlines. This enables Flying Blue members to travel and earn and/or redeem Flying Blue Miles with a number of airlines, including Aeromexico, China Airlines, Copa Airlines, Delta Airlines, Etihad Airways, Japan Airlines, Qantas, WestJet and others.

Hotel Partners

Instead of earning points in a hotel program, you can change the type of accumulation in your member profile preferences to earn Flying Blue Miles with:

• ALL – Accord Live Limitless (1 Mile per euro spent)
• Best Western (250 Miles per booking)
• Booking.com (2 Miles per euro spent)
• Dorint Switzerland (1 Mile per euro spent)
• Hotel for Miles (10,000 Miles per night)
• Golden Tulip Hotels (between 300 and 500 miles per stay)
• Hyatt Hotels & Resorts (500 miles per stay)
• IHG Hotels & Resorts (up to 2 Miles for every euro spent)
• Marriott Bonvoy (up to 2 Miles for every USD 1 spent)
• Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts (500 miles per stay)
• Worldhotels (500 miles per stay)

Rental Cars

• AVIS (up to 900 miles per rental)
• Budget (up to 1,000 Miles per rental)
• CarTrawler (1 Mile per euro spent)
• Dollar (up to 4 Miles per euro spent)
• Enterprise (4 Miles per euro spent)
• Europcar (up to 1,000 Miles per euro spent and up to 15% discount depending on Flying Blue status)
• Free2move (2 Miles per euro spent and free airport shuttle)
• Hertz (up to 12 Miles per euro spent, 15% discount and 500 Miles for a first rental)
• Hertz DriveU (3 Miles per euro spent)
• Sixt (up to 1,200 Miles per rental)
• Thrifty (up to 8 Miles per euro spent)

Travel

• Event & Concert Tickets (10 Miles for every €10 spent)
• GetYourGuide (3 Miles per euro spent)
• Voyageurs du monde (1,000 Miles per package booked, and 10,000 Miles from the 4th package upwards)

Everyday Shopping

• American Express (credit cards)
• Aelia Duty Free (3 Miles per euro spent)
• Clicalbum.com (up to 300 Miles per album ordered)
• e-Rewards (250 Miles per survey completed)
• The Bicester Collection (2 Miles per euro spent)
• utu (4,686 Miles per $100 of taxes refunded)

Hotel Programs

Hilton Honors

The Hilton Honors loyalty program is linked to Hilton Hotels. It enables members to earn points while staying at over 6,800 Hilton hotels worldwide, redeem them for free nights, transfer them to other programs or to other members.

Everyday Shopping

• Lyft (by linking your Hilton Honors account to Lyft in Canada and the U.S. only)
• Guest Opinion Rewards (125 points for the first survey and additional points for subsequent surveys)
• Alamo, Enterprise and National (500 points per rental)
• Bilt Rewards and American Express (via credit cards)

Marriott Bonvoy

The Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program enables members to earn points when staying at over 9,000 Marriott hotels worldwide. These points can be redeemed for free nights, merchandise, gift cards, cruises, or by transferring them to other programs or to other members.

Rental Cars

• Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty (up to 700 Marriott Bonvoy points for each rental)

Everyday Shopping

• Uber and Uber Eats (by linking your Marriott Bonvoy account to Uber in the U.S. only)
• Starbucks Rewards (by linking your Marriott Bonvoy account to Starbucks in the US only)
• American Express (via credit cards)

Other programs

AIR MILES

The AIR MILES loyalty program enables members to earn miles by making purchases at a wide portfolio of partners, mostly retail stores. These Cash or Dream miles are then exchanged for a variety of rewards, such as travel, merchandise, e-gift cards or $10 cash discounts.

Hotel Partners

• IHG Hotels & Resorts (1 mile for every $5 in purchases)

Rental Cars

• Alamo (1 mile per $10 rental)
• AVIS (1 mile per $15 for each rental)
• Budget (1 mile per $15 for each rental)
• National (1 mile for every $10 in purchases)

Travel

• Redtag.ca (1 mile for every $5 to $15 in purchases)

Everyday Shopping

• CanadaLuggageDepot.ca (1 mile per $20 purchase)
• Carpet One (1 mile per $50 purchase)
• Canadian Appliance Centre (1 mile per $40 purchase)
• Reward your opinion (25 miles for completing the first survey)
• La Voix de l’acheteur (7 miles from the first survey)
• eflc (Electronics For Less Canada) (1 mile for every $25 in purchases)
• Fountain Tire (1 mile for every $20 in purchases)
• Goodyear (1 mile per $20 of purchases)
• International Pool Group (1 mile per $30 or $40 purchase)
• Justedesstores.ca (1 mile for every $40 or $50 in purchases)
• Children’s Education Fund Inc. (10 miles per unit enrolled in the plan and 1 mile for every $100 contributed)
• Legal Wills Canada (1 mile for every $10 spent)
• Lumen (1 mile for every $30 to $300 in purchases)
• Mayflower (1 mile per $30 purchase)
• Daoust/Forget cleaner (1 mile per $10 purchase)
• Pitou minou & Compagnons (1 mile for every $20 spent)
• Premiere Mortgages (up to 500 miles with a mortgage)
• Shell (1 mile per 10 L or 20 L of gasoline and 1 mile per $5 of in-store purchases)
• Timber Mart (1 mile per $15 purchase)
• United Van Lines (1 mile for every $30 in purchases)
• BMO (via credit cards)

CIBC Aventura

The Aventura program is linked to CIBC.

It allows credit cardholders to earn Aventura points on purchases, which can then be redeemed for travel, merchandise, gift cards or even credit card cash back.

Travel

• aloSIM (10% discount with an eligible CIBC credit or debit card)

Everyday Shops

• Journie Rewards with Ultramar, Pioneer, Fas Gas and Chevron (rebate of up to 10 cents per liter of gasoline by linking your Journie account with an eligible credit or debit card)
• Paymi (shopping portal for cash back)
• SPC (free subscription for eligible students)

Moi Rewards Card With Metro

Metro’s MOI loyalty program allows members to earn points on their purchases at Metro, Première Moisson, Brunet, Super C and Jean Coutu. These points are then exchanged for discounts on your grocery bill.

• moi RBC Visa Credit Card
• • Petro-Canada (3 cents off per liter of gasoline and 20% more Petro-Points and Avion points by linking your Petro-Points account to the moi RBC Visa Credit Card)
  • Simons (10% credit when paying for a Simons purchase with your credit card)

PC Optimum

The PC Optimum program is one of the most popular reward programs in Canada.

Members earn points when they shop at Loblaw chain stores such as Shoppers Drug Mart, Maxi, Loblaws, Provigo, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore, Valu-mart, Joe Fresh and more. Points accumulated in this way are exchanged for discounts on in-store products.

• Esso and Mobil
• PC Finance (Mastercard credit cards)

RBC Avion Rewards

The RBC Avion Rewards program allows Avion credit cardholders to earn points on their purchases. They can then redeem them for travel, merchandise or gift cards. Members also benefit from additional advantages such as access to exclusive events (like tickets to Taylor Swift concerts to be won) or free ski tickets.

Everyday Shops

• Transfer to WestJet and Hudson’s Bay Rewards
• Petro-Canada (3 cents off per liter of gasoline and 20% more Petro-Points and Avion points when you link your Petro-Points account to an RBC credit or debit card)
• Rexall (5x Be Well points by linking your Rexall account to an RBC credit or debit card)
• DoorDash (free DashPass subscription with an eligible RBC credit card)

BMO Rewards

BMO Rewards points can be used to purchase airline tickets, hotels, car rentals, Airbnb, all-inclusive packages, etc., booked with your BMO credit card at the travel agency or website of your choice. In addition, they can be used to make investments, purchase merchandise or be exchanged for account credits.

Here’s a business linked to the BMO Rewards program:

• Shell (rebate of up to 7 cents per liter of gas by linking your AIR MILES account with an eligible BMO credit or debit card)

Scene+

The Scene+ program allows members to earn points by making purchases at partners and with credit cards linked to the program. These points can then be redeemed for a variety of rewards, including movie tickets, travel, meals or $10 cash back on groceries for every 1,000 points redeemed.

Everyday Shops

• Home Hardware, Home Building Centre, Home Hardware Building Centre, Home Furniture
• Sobeys Group Grocery and Drug Stores (IGA, Sobeys, Safeway, Foodland, FreshCo, Chalo! FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Rachelle Béry, Les Marchés Tradition, Voilà by Sobeys, Voilà by Safeway, Voilà by IGA)
• Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet, Montana’s, Kelseys, East Side Mario’s, and Bier Markt restaurants.
• Cinéma Cineplex
• The Rec Room, Playdium
• Scotiabank (via credit cards)

Bottom Line

By knowing your preferred loyalty program partners well, you can optimize your reward opportunities and maximize the value of your points. Don’t let any precious points slip out of your hands!