RBC Avion: Earn up to 70,000 Avion points with RBC Avion credit cards!

This card allows you to accumulate RBC Avion points from the Avion Rewards program based on your spending categories.

For all your travel purchases:

• airline tickets
• Hotels
• car rentals
• And more!

You’ll earn 25% more RBC Avion points. This corresponds to an accumulation of 1.25 RBC Avion points per dollar of purchases.

For all other purchases, you’ll earn 1 RBC Avion point per dollar.

With this RBC Avion credit card, you can:

• transfer points to British Airways Executive Club, Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, American AAdvantage, WestJet Rewards or Hudson’s Bay Rewards (between 0.5 and 3 cents per point)
• use points for airline tickets via RBC’s fixed fare structure (up to 2 cents per point)
• use points for any travel purchase on RBC Rewards (1 cent per point)
• purchase gift cards or products (between 0.5 and 1 cent per point)
• pay with points for any purchase (0.58 cent per point)

This is where you will get the most out of your RBC Avion Rewards points.

RBC offers a fixed reward chart divided into six levels depending on the type of flight :

The most interesting use is when the price of the flight you want to book is close to the maximum amount (excluding taxes and surcharge ).

Here’s an example of a plane ticket I booked to use 70,000 RBC points I had accumulated.

It’s a weekend flight from Montreal to Las Vegas. The fare is 35,000 Avion points (“Discover North America” level in the table above) and $164.85 in taxes.

Flights were direct, operated by Air Canada Rouge (but sold by United).

When we look at the fare details on ITA Matrix (to get the ticket price + taxes applied), we see that the ticket price is $370 + $345 = $715 (below the maximum allowed by RBC of $750 for 35,000-point tickets):

The taxes are within a few cents of those charged by RBC (approximately $165).

Here, 35,000 RBC Avion points saved me $715.40. This values my use at 2 cents per RBC Avion point (you can hardly get more!).

It is also possible to use RBC Avion points via the flexible fare structure. It’s the famous “100 points = $1”.

Here, the 55,000 RBC Avion Rewards points obtained as a welcome bonus can be used for $550 off your trip.

Just use this when you:

• Redeem points for travel rewards without using the Air Travel Rewards Redemption Schedule;
• Redeem points for a hotel stay, car rental, cruise or vacation package;
• Redeem points for one-way, business or first class flight;
• Pay more than the maximum dollar value set for a category;
• Pay all taxes, fees and surcharges.

The best use of RBC Avion points obtained with the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card is for transfer to other programs (especially during points conversion promotions like with British Airways Executive Club or Asia Miles). That’s what we did in Australia (and wanted to do in Japan).

What’s more, you can use your Avios points to travel with Qatar Airways.

Here are the transfer partners and the normal exchange rate.

Partner program	Conversion rates
	1,000 Avion points = 10 Westjet dollars
	10,000 Avion points = 10,000 Avios
	10,000 Avion points = 10,000 Asia Miles
	5,000 Avion points = 3,500 AAdvantage miles
	5,000 Avion points = 10,000 Hudson’s Bay Rewards points

From time to time, RBC Avion Rewards organizes points conversion promotions like +30% to British Airways Executive Club for example. Watch for these promotions to redeem your Avion points at the best possible rate! Subscribe to our free newsletter so you don’t miss out.

If travel purchases with points are not for you, there is another way to use your RBC Avion Rewards points: through the purchase of gift cards.

We generally do not recommend this method over travel redemptions. However, the RBC Avion Rewards loyalty program regularly offers promotions to exchange Avion points for gift cards!

Here’s an example of an interesting hotels.com gift card promotion. With 18,750 Avion Rewards points, you could get a $250 hotels.com gift card:

RBC cardholders can link their card to Petro-Canada’s Petro-Points program to earn :

• 3¢ off per litre on fuel and 20% more Petro-Points
• 20% more RBC Rewards points (1.2 RBC points per dollar spent at Petro-Canada)

By linking your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card to your Be Well card:

• Earn 50 Be Well points for every dollar spent on eligible products at Rexall
• Redeem Be Well points faster for in-store savings on purchases; 25,000 Be Well points = $10

Add your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card to your DoorDash account to:

• Get a free 12-month DashPass subscription – a value of up to $120
• Enjoy unlimited free deliveries on orders of $15 or more when paying with your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card

During the winter season, RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card cardholders get a free lift ticket when purchasing a lift ticket for Friday at participating ski resorts across Canada.

With your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card, you can get a 20% discount on the base rate at Hertz and 3 times the Avion points.

As this card is designed for travellers, it includes the usual “Visa Infinite” level of insurance:

• Out-of-province / out-of-country medical emergency coverage
• Travel Accident Insurance
• Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage Insurance
• Trip Cancellation/Trip Interruption Insurance
• Flight delay and essential items insurance
• Hotel or Motel Burglary Insurance
• Purchase Security and Extended Warranty Coverage
• Mobile Device Insurance

The insurance booklet is available here.

The RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card is one of the best travel credit cards in Canada. Don’t hesitate to take advantage of this welcome offer, which requires no purchase!

And if you want to enjoy additional travel benefits (such as six annual airport lounge visits) and a higher welcome bonus, you might consider applying for the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Privilege Card.