is now or will soon be owned by Bank of Montreal.
BMO agrees to buy Air Miles loyalty program (msn.com)
BMO agrees to buy Air Miles loyalty program (msn.com)
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I have not be able to deemed my cash miles at Metro because it is hit or miss whether the cashier knows what she is doing. And I can’t redeem where I get the points the most. Makes no sense. So hopefully they expand on the program.
I use my CAA & Air Miles cards at Shell gas stations. CAA gets me a gas discount, and the points do add up. There's also a Shell app I have on my phone that automatically applies the CAA and Air Miles plus my usual credit card number, so all I have to do is input the number of the pump I'm at, then my credit card PIN, and the pump is instantly ready for me to fill my tank, with the discount and points already applied.
Yeah. They give you 3 cents per litre discount. It probably saves me about $100/year. I don't have the phone app but it sounds cool. I don't have air miles so it sounds like about the same amount of work for me.
Are there other gas companies that have good loyalty programs?
For me the CAA part plus Air Miles points at Shell trumps the Esso and PetroCanada loyalty plans. Also for a while now Shell gives bonus Air Mile points if you drive enough to fill up with at least 30 litres of any grade of gas 3 times in one month.
Where can you even use Aeroplan? All I know is from Air Canada flights and LCBO.
I know Air Miles used to be at Sobey's, now Sobey's does Scene I think...Scotia also got rid of whatever travel points they had and now I have like $900 of Scene points.
I get more from my Costco gas card cash back and the gas is always 5cents cheaper than anywhere else. I am just lucky that I have them on usual drive routes
Canadian Tire Gas gives you 3 cents CT money per litre, or more when there are special offers and/or paying with specific credits cards affiliated with Triangle Rewards Program. Esso gives you at least 10 PC Optimum points per litre.
This doesn't make sense. There are signs at gas stations NOT TO USE cells while filling up or else you will catch on fire.
BTW smart with the points. But in my area Pioneer is the only one where gas is 0.05 less than others.
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I rather collect PC points.
Airmiles is nothing great especially after they ripped off point collectors that points were expiring and later changed their mind I think may be about 7 yrs or more ago. Airmiles is dead to me.
Airmiles is nothing great especially after they ripped off point collectors that points were expiring and later changed their mind I think may be about 7 yrs or more ago. Airmiles is dead to me.
Aeroplan is having a BMO credit card for Airmiles (like before). You spend money on your credit card, and every month the balance counts toward a certain amount of airmiles. Pretty passive.
I have collected air miles for years, back when I worked and airmiles was first at Rona then Lowes, in those days I was spending thousands a month of building materials. I was also spending a grand a month on gas, My mastercard is also airmiles so miles on every purchase. Twice a year, pick a vacation...PAID FOR... I still collect, you need to play the game and go after the bonus miles, also my airmiles credit card helps. Last couple of years, I still have 12000 miles, I take 3 or 4 hundred dollars off the price of each trips..
Best deal I ever got with Air Miles was buying 3 dozen Titleist Pro V1 golf balls for 700 air miles.
