The Deal
- Air Canada is offering the following two-tiered gift card promotion:
- Earn 1 bonus Aeroplan point per dollar when buying up to $2,000 Air Canada gift cards
- Earn 3 bonus Aeroplan points per dollar when buying $2,001+ Air Canada gift cards
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- Purchase Air Canada Gift Cards between February 1 at 12:01am EST and February 14, 2024 at 11:59pm EST, and earn: (a) 1 bonus Aeroplan point for every $1 spent on purchases up to $2,000; or (b) 3 bonus Aeroplan points for every $1 spent on purchases over $2,000. (E.g., When your total spend is $1,000 you will earn 1,000 bonus Aeroplan points. When your total spend is $2,000 you will earn 2,000 bonus Aeroplan points. When your total spend is $3,000 you will earn 9,000 bonus Aeroplan points.).
- Offer available online only.
- Be sure to enter your Aeroplan number at time of purchase in order to receive your bonus points.
- The maximum online purchase is $2,000 per transaction, up to a maximum of $10,000USD total spend in gift card purchases during the Offer Period.
- Maximum of 30,000 bonus Aeroplan points per Aeroplan Member.
- Members will be credited in March 2024 based on the total amount spent during the promotional period.
Tips & Ideas
This deal isn’t really advisable as you can earn 3x-5x (non-Aeroplan) points on Air Canada flights on a number of different credit cards, plus several of those cards will offer some kind of travel protections that you won’t get when paying with gift cards.
The terms are a little weird too. It says the maximum online purchase is $2,000, but you have to spend more than that in order to earn 3x points. You can do that by placing a subsequent order, but when testing this out it did let me add more than $2,000 worth of Air Canada gift cards in my cart. Whether they’d process an order more than $2,000 is another matter though.
There are sometimes Air Canada Chase Offers giving 10% back. If you’re targeted for one of those and are planning on buying these gift cards, it might be worth paying with a card with the Chase Offer loaded to it. I’m not certain you’d earn the statement credit, but it could be worth a try because if ‘Air Canada’ appears in the transaction details, that’s usually enough to trigger the statement credit.