Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Aladora]

I get those every week and always wait till the week to do my shopping because i can get more miles for less effort! YES, i separate the orders out in my basket and tell the clerk to ring in as individual sales and i've never had a problem! I wander up and down the rows with the calculator in hand making sure i have just enough to get the $$ value .. last Thursday i managed to rack up 175 miles in one trip! I just print several coupons and stick them in my pocket (my phone is dumb so i can't flash that!)

Last week i got a ton of targeted coupons from Rexall and I've got a big trip planned that should net me over 250 miles. They still have the offer for buying greeting cards right now BTW so if you have any occasions coming up that you normally buy cards for anyway it's a pretty easy way to get some!

Sweet, thanks! I've got to grab some things there this afternoon and I am pretty sure I can get to $60 without a lot of effort. I'm 56AM short of the first of three 5 day DL hoppers so this will definitely help!

 

[DilEmma]

Don't forget to take a '$5 off when you spend $25' coupon with you when you use your spend $30 get 50. They are stackable.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Woohoo! I just got my 500 AM for referring my Hubby to the AE Platinum card 400 more AM and I can get a second 5-day adult pass!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I just checked my account and I got 100 AM from "Loyalty One". I had two outstanding 100 bonus AM offers, one from BMO mastercard (make 10 purchases in April) and one from air miles for the month of March (make three purchases from AM vendors).

Anyone waiting for the March AM's, check your account!

 

[ottawamom]

I just checked my account and I got 100 AM from "Loyalty One". I had two outstanding 100 bonus AM offers, one from BMO mastercard (make 10 purchases in April) and one from air miles for the month of March (make three purchases from AM vendors).

Anyone waiting for the March AM's, check your account!

I'm thinking it must be your March purchases. I just checked my account and when the BMO bonus came through it showed up as "Dec spend get BMO bonus". The Loyalty One is bonus direct from AM. Congrats on getting yours I'm still waiting for mine.

 

[DizzyDis]

I was taking a look at this week's Sobeys flyer and it looks like there could be a good coffee deal, depending on what size packages are included: Purchase any 3 participating Maxwell House and Nabob products and get 100 AM. I am not a huge fan of those coffee brands, but if I can geta few 100 AM, and use some more of my Sobeys gift cards, I may be learning to love them!!

 

[pigletto]

I was taking a look at this week's Sobeys flyer and it looks like there could be a good coffee deal, depending on what size packages are included: Purchase any 3 participating Maxwell House and Nabob products and get 100 AM. I am not a huge fan of those coffee brands, but if I can geta few 100 AM, and use some more of my Sobeys gift cards, I may be learning to love them!!

I saw that. I don't mind those brands. We tend to go through so much coffee I just buy what's on sale. Sobey's notoriously has the worst prices on coffee though. I usually pay around $6- $7 for the large can of MaxWell House or Foldgers on sale. I'm betting the Sobey's will be in the $11-$12 range which will make the promo not worth it at all. I'm willing to see though. I wish I had some coupons for Maxwell house. That might make it worth it, but I haven't see any in awhile.
I have a personal offer for 30 airmiles for frozen blueberries that hasn't expired yet, and I plan to get the items for the 50 points offer and the melons for 25 airmiles. So I'll get at least 100 hopefully.

 

[Canadian Harmony]

This week Thrifty's (BC's version of Sobey's) is giving 125 AM with a $100 purchase. I have my shopping list and I should get at least 288AM for my $109 at Thrifty's.

The rest of my stuff I'm going to get at Save-On - they have a spend $100 and get 2000 SOMPoints, which I use for ferry passes, so I should walk out with a minimum of 3000 points (half way to a pass) this week. I'm taking the girls to the Mainland in July, so I have 2 more weeks to get those passes for my fare.

I'm also an Onyx member, so I'm taking advantage of the personal travel agent angle and going to try to use my AM on my card and DH's on his card and cash to get our flight to Saskatoon in September. I'm under 1000 AM away for my flight.

 

[ontdvc2015]

Well I just ordered 2 - 5 day Disney passes with our airmiles! YIPPY! Now the interesting part will be when I see them. With this potential postal strike, it could be a while before I have them in my hands! The airmiles site says anything ordered after June 21 could be delayed. I haven't paid much attention to this postal strike because I didn't think it would really affect me, but now I really hope they get it figured out because I want these passes in my hands! lol

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Just so you know, when I order mine, I got them within a week via UPS, not Canada Post.

 

[ontdvc2015]

Just so you know, when I order mine, I got them within a week via UPS, not Canada Post.

Awesome! I wondered if something like this would come courier and not Canada Post. Very happy to hear that!

 

[mort1331]

Mine have always come UPS, just received our last one about a month ago.

 

[ottawamom]

While on the topic of tickets. Would you purchase tickets now for a trip in May 2018? I've heard some rumors about adding expiry dates to multi-day DisneyWorld tickets. I'm thinking that already purchased tickets would be grandfathered into the new system. I have the airmiles to get most of them now and would get them to avoid a price increase. It's just a long way out and so much can change. I know most of you getting tickets now will be using them before the end of 2017.

On a side note. I just picked up the melon deal at Sobey's. The lemon drop melons are yummy, sweet and juicey and the orange hami are like cantaloupe but crunchier.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

While on the topic of tickets. Would you purchase tickets now for a trip in May 2018? I've heard some rumors about adding expiry dates to multi-day DisneyWorld tickets. I'm thinking that already purchased tickets would be grandfathered into the new system. I have the airmiles to get most of them now and would get them to avoid a price increase. It's just a long way out and so much can change. I know most of you getting tickets now will be using them before the end of 2017.

I purchased a 5-day pass a few weeks ago through air miles for January 2018 and I will be doing so again next week for a second pass. Even if something happened that you couldn't go, you could always sell your passes for "at par" pricing to someone on the DIS

 

[mort1331]

Buy as soon as you have enough AM, the WDW ones now do not have an expiry, so they wont change that. Going forward, anything is possible. I get them sent as soon as I have enough, even if I don't have a trip in mind.(ya right always have one in mind) But might not be gong for year out.

 

[pigletto]

Buy as soon as you have enough AM, the WDW ones now do not have an expiry, so they wont change that. Going forward, anything is possible. I get them sent as soon as I have enough, even if I don't have a trip in mind.(ya right always have one in mind) But might not be gong for year out.

Totally agree with this advice. I would be VERY surprised if they didn't accept the tickets that you ordered now in 2018. But if they implement an expiry date system, it may become a problem for any tickets obtained after that point. Besides, you also protect yourself against the inevitable price/points increases. There were at least two points increases on tickets last year.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I only need 156 more AM and then I can order another 5-day pass. I have a lot coming to me this week! Patience is not a strength of mine LOL

 

[ottawamom]

That was the easiest 2000AM I ever earned. Got my Amex June 15th. Two dentist appointments this week. The spend $500 taken care of. My statement shockingly was June 24th (applied for the card June 5th or 6th). I had a look at my statement and the bonus AM were there. Just have to wait till next week for them to show up in my AM account. Thanks to all of you who promoted the credit card idea. My DH will have to wait one more cycle to get his AM he's got his second appointment at the dentist this coming week.

 

[mort1331]

That was the easiest 2000AM I ever earned. Got my Amex June 15th. Two dentist appointments this week. The spend $500 taken care of. My statement shockingly was June 24th (applied for the card June 5th or 6th). I had a look at my statement and the bonus AM were there. Just have to wait till next week for them to show up in my AM account. Thanks to all of you who promoted the credit card idea. My DH will have to wait one more cycle to get his AM he's got his second appointment at the dentist this coming week.

Check out the 3000 AM for the BMO MC, you do have to spend a little more, but its doable.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Check out the 3000 AM for the BMO MC, you do have to spend a little more, but its doable.

Which promo is that one? I'm going to be upgrading my current BMO AM Gold card to the World Elite...