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There’s a six-figure offer back again on the Chase Aeroplan Card, but to unlock the full bonus you’ll need to do a lot of spend. This might be appealing for someone who intended to spend heavily on the card anyway toward earning elite status.
The Offer & Key Card Details
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Up to 100K Points ⓘ Affiliate 75K points after $4K spend in the first 3 months and an additional 25K after spending a total fo $20K within first 12 months$95 Annual Fee This card is likely subject to Chase's 5/24 rule (click here for details). FM Mini Review: Great card for regular or frequent Air Canada flyers Earning rate: 3X Air Canada ✦ 3X grocery stores ✦ 3X dining ✦ 500 bonus points with each $2K calendar month spend, up to $6K spend per month (1,500 points max) ✦ 1X everywhere else Card Info: Mastercard World Elite issued by Chase. This card has no foreign currency conversion fees. Big spend bonus: Renew 25K status w/ $15K spend ✦ Status Boost w/ $50K spend ✦ Priority Reward w/ $100K, $250K, $500K, or $750K spend ✦ Free award companion for rest of calendar year and all of next with $1Million spend Noteworthy perks: Discounted award pricing ✦ Free checked bag ✦ $100 credit for NEXUS, Global Entry or TSA PreCheck every 4 years ✦ Carbon offsets on Air Canada awards ✦ Pay Yourself Back for travel at 1.25 cents per point, up to 50K points per year ✦ 10% bonus when transferring Ultimate Rewards to Aeroplan (25K max bonus/year) |
Quick Thoughts
At first glance, this offer doesn’t look very strong given that you can transfer to Aeroplan from all of the major transferable currencies. If you’re after 100,000 Aeroplan points, there are a multitude of ways to get there with far less than $20K spend.
On the other hand, the Aeroplan card certainly has some appeal. With $15K spend, you can keep 25K status and with $50K spend, you can get a status boost up to the next level from whatever level you have earned based on flight activity.
The card earns 3x at grocery stores and on dining and 500 points points with each $2K spend up to $6K spend per month, so it certainly isn’t an unreasonable card to use for those categories. If you would already consider using this as a primary grocery and/or dining card, then meeting the $20K spend in the first 12 months to unlock the second piece of the bonus may be simple and that additional bonus essentially gravy.
Keep in mind that Air Canada elite status offers expanded award availability and better pricing on flights operated by Air Canada.
Additionally, Chase Aeroplan cardholders can currently redeem a Aeroplan points to “pay yourself back” for travel purchases at a value of 1.25c per point. That could certainly have a large draw and it makes the bonus categories potentially even more appealing.
I’m a big fan of the Aeroplan program and Aeroplan points, but as noted above there are lots of other ways to earn Aeroplan points. Amex has continued to provide opportunities for excellent welcome bonuses, so for the time being I think I would be more likely to continue to keep an eye out for their no lifetime language offers.
A total bonus of 100K it puts this card in line with airline card bonuses that have been offered on other Chase co-branded cards. I think that for anyone who was already considering getting the card, this bonus will probably make a lot of sense.
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PYB has been awesome on this card. Little use for UR personally but PYB is great.
Hope they push back the date on unlimited use again.
Anyone get approved for this while over 5/24?
Hi Nick,
Do you have any idea how the Status Level Up benefit works with respect to gifted status (i.e., status gifted by someone with 75k or Super Elite status, who can choose status for a friend as one of their benefits)? Ricky over at Prince of Travel suggests that gifted status is eligible for the Level Up benefit, but hw would that work? Since the Chase AP card provides a +1 boost to the status for the following year, would someone need to be gifted status exactly on Jan 1?
Seems like the best PYB card on the market… at least for those unloved by Cap1. we grabbed one a few weeks ago to cover some JR rail passes.
Hey Nick! Can this card be on the next card talk?!
Not this week (already recorded this week’s episode before this offer changed and had a better fit for the episode) — but maybe we’ll cover it soon!
If so, would love thoughts on whether 25k status helps much if you don’t fly air Canada
Easy: no it doesn’t help at all if not flying air Canada
Actually, it gets you Star Alliance Silver status, which helps a tiny bit, but still not much.
Oh, good catch!
There’s also some 25K benefits on other Star Alliance airlines.
United: Use “Premier Access” line when checking in, and Group 2 boarding. The later could be useful to get a carry-on when flying Basic Economy.
Lufthansa Group (Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, SWISS, Air Dolomiti, and Discover Airlines): Use “Business” line when checking in.
I did the $4K spend right away for the first bonus, and then the remaining $16K in the subsequent calendar year to keep 25K status for a third calendar year.
I got some automatically assigned Economy Plus seats at check in on my last two (fully booked) United flights, but I don’t know if it was due to the Air Canada 25K status.
Do you need to put Air Canada’s frequent flyer number on United booking in order to get the benefit, please?
I think so. I don’t know if it’s possible to keep the AC 25K/35K Group 2 boarding benefit on UA and somehow switch the FF program to earn on UA.
I received an email offer today which also included 75,000 miles with $4k spend.
Same…just showed up today:
Earn up to 100,000 pointsEarn 75,000 points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months your account is open. Plus, earn 25,000 points after you spend $20,000 on purchases in the first 12 months your account is open
Same offer for me too via email
Same, I am not seeing anything in the link that makes it look unique to me:
https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/Aeroplan/75k25kaep
The offer is now slightly improved. 75k after $4k spend is the base.
https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/Aeroplan/75k25kaep?CELL=63G0&jp_cmp=cc/chaseaeroplan/int/na/na
I’m over 5/24 but got a personal snail mail from chase with this offer. Any recent DP on approvals (or rejections) in this scenario? Won’t be under 5/24 for another ~9 months.
I’d try
For the same $20k in spending, a person could walk away with 225k AA points AND 240k Delta points. Take your pick.
but then You’d be stuck with 240,000 delta miles!
By your comment, it would seem that you don’t know how to achieve reasonable value from Delta points. That’s unfortunate.
Hey Jordan, Can you explain which cards will give these amount of SUBS?
@Nick Reyes – I purchased a basic economy AC fare through the Capital One travel portal. Would the “free first checked bag” benefit from this Aeroplan credit card apply on the previously purchased AC flight for me (the primary cardmember) and my SO traveling on the same itinerary?
@Nick Reyes Reyes Any links to the 70k offer still floating around? I’ve been waiting to pull the trigger on it, but I like the 3k 70k way more than this 20k spend offer.
https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/Aeroplan/70k3kaep is still working as of right now.
Link is now dead.
So 25K provides star alliance silver — I am assuming that does not translate to United silver benefits (economy plus seats at check-in), is that right?
If you sign up today you have AC 25k status through end 2024. To get status through 2025, you should stop after spending 5k, then resume spend on Jan 1 next year so that you have 15k spend in 2024. If you knock out the 20k this year there is no additional status benefit as you already are set thru 2024
i think for signing up you get through 2025 as well