{"id":9457,"date":"2018-05-14T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=ab7f914c7980f8f9bb37cadf6f3315e2"},"modified":"2018-05-14T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T23:14:24","slug":"american-express-extends-aeroplan-deal-to-2020-to-exit-alongside-air-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/american-express-extends-aeroplan-deal-to-2020-to-exit-alongside-air-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express extends Aeroplan deal to 2020 to exit alongside Air Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; American Express Canada says it has reached a deal with Aimia Inc. and Air Canada extend its term as a credit card partner in the Aeroplan rewards program.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the renewed contract extends through to June 29, 2020, to end at the same time as Air Canada&#8217;s participation in Aeroplan.<\/p>\n<p>Aimia&#8217;s stock price has struggled since Air Canada announced last year that it would be splitting with the loyalty points company to start its own rewards program.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal-based Aimia announced in March that it was partnering with Amazon to earn points with purchases, but lost Imperial Oil&#8217;s Esso gas stations as a partner in the same month.<\/p>\n<p>The company is searching for a new CEO as it looks to prepare the company for life after Air Canada, after its current chief executive David Johnston announced in late April that he would leave once a replacement was found.<\/p>\n<p>Visa also provides Aeroplan-branded credit cards through TD Bank and CIBC on contracts that expire in 2024. American Express&#8217;s contract was set to expire this year.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:AC)(TSX:AIM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; American Express Canada says it has reached a deal with Aimia Inc. and Air Canada extend its term as a credit card partner in the Aeroplan rewards program. The company says the renewed contract extends through to June 29, 2020, to end at the same time as Air Canada&rsquo;s participation in Aeroplan. Aimia&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}