RBC Avion: Earn 35,000 Avion Points with the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card—No Spending Required!

This card allows you to earn RBC Avion Rewards points based on your spending habits.

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’ll 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 you look at the tariff 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”.

The 35,000 RBC Avion Rewards points earned as a welcome bonus can be used for $350 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 earned with the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card is for transfer to other programs (especially during point conversion promotions such as with British Airways Executive Club or Asia Miles). That’s what we did in Australia (and wanted to do in Japan).

In addition, you can now use your Avios points to travel with Qatar Airways.

Here are the transfer partners and the normal exchange rate.

Frequent Flyer program	Conversion rate
	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 offers point conversion promotions, such as +30% to the British Airways Executive Club. 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 buying travel with points isn’t for you, there’s another way to use your RBC Avion Rewards points: by purchasing gift cards.

We generally do not recommend this method over travel redemptions. However, the RBC Avion Rewards loyalty program regularly offers promotions to redeem 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:

• 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 delivery on orders of $15 or more when you pay with your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card.

During the winter season, RBC Avion Visa Infinite Cardholders receive a free lift ticket with the purchase of a Friday lift ticket at participating ski resorts across Canada.

Your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card gives you a 20% discount on the base rate at Hertz and 3x 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.

It’s one of the best credit cards in Canada for travelers. Don’t hesitate to take advantage of this welcome offer, which requires no purchase!