Chase to issue Air Canada Mastercard credit cards to US-market

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Chase, Air Canada, and Mastercard today announced that Chase will be the exclusive issuer of Air Canada Aeroplan credit cards in the US. Surprisingly (since most other Chase cards are Visa cards), these will be Mastercards.  Additionally, Chase will add Air Canada as a transfer partner in “late 2021”.

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The press release states that “the new Aeroplan Credit Card from Chase is expected to launch in late 2021.”  That suggests that there will be only one card, but I’ll be surprised if there aren’t more.  At minimum I expect to see a $95-ish card and a more expensive premium card.

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James

Will be interesting to see if they kick things off with a huge signup bonus. Here’s hoping!

Mohammad Moghimi

What are the sweet spots? Etihad flights redemptions seem expensive.
https://www.aircanada.com/content/dam/aircanada/portal/documents/PDF/loyalty/flight-rewards-chart-en.pdf

Dan

Interesting that United (presumably) was okay with this, even granted that the number of people who will get this card or transfer to Aeroplan is much smaller than the number who will do so for United.

david

I’m delighted to see UA MileagePlus get edged out like this.

Gene

Great, another card I won’t be able to get due to 5/24.

Justmeha

Or just because Chase is so difficult