With this offer for the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card, you can earn 35,000 Avion points upon approval and 20,000 bonus points when you spend $5,000 within 6 months of approval.
You can use your Avion Rewards points for travel or redeem them with other loyalty programs such as :
The current welcome offer, for example, gives you the equivalent of 55,000 British Airways Avios or 550 WestJet Dollars.
With the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card, you earn 1 point per dollar and 1.25 points for travel purchases.
What’s more, you’ll benefit from a wide range of insurances: trip cancellation and interruption insurance, out-of-province or out-of-country emergency medical care insurance, collision and damage insurance for rental vehicles, and mobile device insurance.
With this exceptional offer for the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Privilege Card, you can earn up to 70,000 Avion points:
The current welcome offer, for example, gives you the equivalent of 70,000 British Airways Aviosor 700 WestJet Dollars.
With the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Privilege Card, you earn 1.25 points per dollar.
Finally, you get six complimentary global airport lounge access passes and security fast track lanes at select Canadian airports
This card allows you to earn RBC Avion Rewards points based on your spending habits.
For all your travel purchases:
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:
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 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!).
$880.25 (public ticket price) – $164.85 (taxes paid) = $715.40
It is also possible to use RBC Avion points via the flexible fare structure. It’s 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:
It’s not the most optimal way to use your RBC Rewards points, but it’s the easiest way to purchase travel.
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).
What’s more, you can use your Avios points to travel with Qatar Airways.
Here are the transfer partners and the normal exchange rate.
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 :
By linking your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card to your Be Well:
Add your RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card to your DoorDash account to:
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:
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!
Savings are here:
