RBC Avion: Earn Up To 55,000 Avion Points With The RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card!

With this card, you earn RBC Avion Points based on your spending habits.

For all your travel purchases:

• flights
• Hotels
• car rentals
• and more!

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

You’ll earn 1 RBC Avion point per dollar for all other purchases.

With this RBC Avion credit card, you can:

• Transfer points to British Airways Executive Club, Asia Miles, American AAdvantage, WestJet Rewards or Hudson’s Bay Rewards (between 0.5 and 3 cents per point)
• Redeem points for flights with RBC flight chart (2 cents per point)
• Redeem points for any travel purchase on RBC Avion Rewards (1 cent per point)
• Redeem points for gift cards or products (between 0.5 and 1 cent per point)
• Pay with your points for any purchase (0.58 cents 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 :

What is most interesting, is when the fare of the flight you want to book is close to the maximum amount (excluding taxes and surcharge ).

Here’s an example of a flight I booked to redeem 70,000 RBC Avion points I had earned.

This is a flight from Montreal to Las Vegas for a weekend. The fare was 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 looking at the details of the fare 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 than that!).

RBC Avion points can also be used via the flexible reward chart. This is the famous “100 points = $1”.

The 55,000 RBC Avion Rewards points earned as a welcome bonus can be used to save $550 on your next travel.

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 redemption promotions such as British Airways Executive Club or Asia Miles). That’s what we did in Australia (and were supposed 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 miles
	10,000 Avion points = 10,000 Asia miles
	5,000 Avion points = 3,500 AAdvantage miles
	5,000 Avion points = 10,000 points Hudson’s Bay Rewards

From time to time, RBC Avion Rewards organizes 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, purchasing gift cards is another way to redeem your RBC Avion Rewards points.

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 Rewards 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 savings in store on eligible purchases where 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 pass when you buy 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 intended for travellers, it includes the usual “Visa Infinite” level of insurance:

• Out-of-Province / Out-of-Country Medical Emergency Insurance
• Travel accident insurance
• Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage Insurance
• Trip Cancellation/Trip Interruption Insurance
• Flight delay insurance and purchase of basic necessities
• 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 travellers. Don’t hesitate to take advantage of this exceptional welcome offer!