Chase Ultimate Rewards has just launched a new transfer bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan, and it has the potential to be a good deal. Separately, the program is also currently offering a 20% transfer bonus to Air France-KLM Flying Blue and a 70% transfer bonus to IHG One Rewards.
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Chase offering 20-30% Air Canada Aeroplan transfer bonus
Between Wednesday, December 4, 2024, and Wednesday, January 15, 2025, you can receive a 20% bonus when you transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Air Canada Aeroplan. This promotion is being offered on Chase’s end (in the United States), and is hard coded into the transfer ratio, meaning you should see the bonus at the time that you make the transfer.
You can take advantage of this offer an unlimited number of times. Transfers from Chase to Air Canada Aeroplan are generally instant. We typically seen an offer like this a couple of times per year, and 20% is the most common bonus that’s offered.
There are several great cards earning Chase Ultimate Rewards points, and it’s easy to combine points between the cards.
Also keep in mind that those with the Aeroplan® Credit Card (review) get a further 10% bonus when transferring Ultimate Rewards points to Aeroplan, and these two offers stack:
- This applies when transferring 50,000 or more Chase Ultimate Rewards points in one transaction
- You can get a maximum of 25,000 bonus points per calendar year this way
- The 10% bonus points will post separately — the bonus points should post within 72 hours of the original transfer, but it can take up to seven days
Should you transfer Chase points to Aeroplan?
Air Canada Aeroplan is one of my favorite programs for redeeming points, thanks to the huge number of airline partners, plus the ability to book stopovers even on one-way awards for just 5,000 additional points.
Aeroplan has fair award pricing, and not only gets you access to redemptions on all Star Alliance airlines, but also gets you access to a variety of otherwise unaligned airlines, including Air Mauritius, Gulf Air, and many more.
While I usually prefer to transfer my Chase points to World of Hyatt and transfer my Amex points to Air Canada Aeroplan, with a 20% or more bonus, I think this could very well be worth switching up behavior over.
Bottom line
Through January 15, 2025, Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering a 20% bonus on points transfers to Air Canada Aeroplan. This is an excellent offer that could be worth taking advantage of, given just how useful the Aeroplan program is for Star Alliance and other partner redemptions. The bonus is even more lucrative if you have the Aeroplan Credit Card, so you can get an additional 10% bonus (with some limitations).
Do you plan on taking advantage of this Chase Aeroplan transfer bonus?
Thanks for the update, I use to transfer to United, but the redemption rates on United suck.
Always stings when they put out a bonus literally the day after you transfer a bunch of points. Thought likelihood was low after there wasn't a new bonus on 12/1. Oh well....
I DID the transfer but only with 45000 points I didn' realize I had to do 50 thousand