Great news! The record-high offer on a very popular card is back. This follows exciting announcements in January, whether it’s the card that currently gives you $1025 free adding 4 airport lounge passes or Porter launching a new line of credit cards. Exciting times.
Warning: As always, our always-updated ranking has all the best current deals in the wonderful world of travel rewards. And we’ll have a post comparing the best deals of February this week.
This post today is only to keep you updated on the offer changes that have just taken place. It’s NOT for the best offers, just the new ones.
Here are the new credit card offers for February 2025.
Offer changes (February 2025)
RBC and American Express have just made changes to their offers in the final days of January. I’ll list them by card below.
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RBC offer changes (late January 2025)
The record-high increased offer on the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card, a popular and excellent card with points of the more lucrative type with unlimited value, is back! That’s great news for all travelers who love maximizing!
The welcome bonus on the lower-fee cards that earn RBC Avion points have increased as well, but you shouldn’t be all that interested considering RBC’s generous welcome bonus eligibility rules.
The offers end in June and May, respectively. So it’s worth prioritizing the deal for $1025 free first, unless you want points of the more valuable type faster.
RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card
Changes:
The increased offer is back, after a few months at the low standard offer. Instead of just 35,000 points, you can now get 55,000! With the minimum of 5,000 points you earn on the minimum spending requirement, that’s 60,000 points!
That’s enough for the $4,000 flight in the world’s best business class I very much enjoyed, for example (by taking advantage of the annual 30% transfer bonus to the British Airways Avios program). Even in economy class, you can get crazy value with these points, but it’s true there aren’t many options (it’s not as easy to maximize as Aeroplan points or American Express points).
It’s worth noting that the offer’s rules stipulate that every new application is eligible for this increased welcome bonus, even if you already have this exact card.
The RBC Avion Visa Infinite Privilege Card, the premium-level version of this card, which has 6 airport lounge passes, already had this increased offer that was supposed to end in January, but it was extended. And if you don’t earn the required income for either, RBC doesn’t often ask for proof (even less so than other banks), but the RBC Avion Visa Platinum Card has no income requirement (but it’s inferior, so the real one is definitely better).
Read our RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card resource page for 10+ tabs full of information.
RBC ION+ Visa Card
Changes:
The offer on the low-fee card has doubled, from 7,000 points to 14,000 points. That’s still very low.
Our RBC ION+ Visa Card resource page will soon be updated to add the 10+ tabs full of information.
RBC ION Visa Card
Changes:
The offer on the no-fee card has also doubled, from 3,500 points to 7,000 points. That’s even lower.
Our RBC ION Visa Card resource page will soon be updated to add the 10+ tabs full of information.
American Express offer changes (late January 2025)
The exceptional deal on Canada’s best premium card we’ve kept talking about is now over.
But it’s still a very good offer and card overall, just not as good as a few days ago. And I wouldn’t expect to go back up for many months.
As usual with non-increased American Express offers, there is no published end date, so it’s a bit harder to plan the timing for these cards in your rewards strategy in advance.
American Express Platinum Card
Changes:
The offer has decreased a little from 140,000 points to 100,000 points. Of note, the extremely high minimum spend requirement did not go down along with the welcome bonus, unfortunately.
It’s still great and one of the best offers for points of the more lucrative type — and obviously still the best premium card overall in terms of benefits.
But if you’re not in a rush to get the unlimited lounge access and other benefits, now the record-high welcome bonus on the Scotiabank Platinum American Express Card (very similar names; don’t confuse them) that launched in early January really becomes more interesting, assuming you are okay with 10 annual lounge passes rather than unlimited passes for 2 travelers, and with getting points of the more simple type rather than points of the more lucrative type.
Don’t miss a head-to-head comparison between these premium cards this month.
Read our American Express Platinum Card resource page for 10+ tabs full of information.
American Express Business Platinum Card
Changes:
The offer has decreased a little from 150,000 points to 120,000 points. It’s still over $1,000 in value, which is phenomenal.
Here too, the extremely high minimum spend requirement did not go down.
Read our American Express Business Platinum Card resource page for 10+ tabs full of information.
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Summary
The credit card offers that have changed in late January 2025 are mostly positive. The RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card‘s amazing record-high increased offer is back, and while the American Express Platinum Card‘s offer went down, that was sure to happen, and you had plenty of chances to get it, as we had been talking about the offer ending for weeks.
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