RBC Avion has run a 30% switch bonus to the British Airways Membership roughly twice a yr, most not too long ago from Could 11 to June 19, 2026. Changing throughout a bonus stretches your factors additional earlier than the voucher even comes into play.
Take a solo off-peak round-trip in enterprise class from Toronto with the voucher utilized, which prices 88,000 Avios. With a 30% bonus, you’d want about 67,692 Avion factors to cowl it. For 2 travellers, the identical journey prices 176,000 Avios, or about 135,385 Avion factors with the bonus.
As soon as your Avios are within the British Airways Membership, you can too transfer them between the applications that share the forex. Our information to transferring Avios between accounts covers how that works.
The worth swings extensively relying on how you employ it. On the low finish, it covers your companion’s 27,500 Avios on an off-peak financial system one-way from Toronto (YYZ) to London (LHR). On the excessive finish, it will possibly save 200,000 Avios or extra on round-trip enterprise class for 2 from Vancouver (YVR) to London (LHR) in peak season.
We worth Avios at 2 cents every, which places the voucher wherever from about $550 on the low finish to greater than $4,000 on the excessive finish.
For many travellers, one of the best use is an off-peak round-trip in enterprise class to London. That saves 88,000 Avios solo from Toronto or 176,000 Avios for 2, value about $1,760 or $3,520 at our valuation. From Vancouver, the financial savings for 2 rise to 198,000 Avios, or about $3,960.
Put a greenback determine on it for a typical yr, and a sensible worth for the voucher lands round $1,000. That accounts for the taxes and service prices you will pay on British Airways flights, and the $30,000 in spending it takes to earn.
The British Airways Companion Voucher is the primary motive to maintain the RBC® British Airways Visa Infinite† after the primary yr. Spend $30,000 in a calendar yr, and you will have 24 months to place it towards a British Airways flight from Canada^.
When you can journey as a pair, the mathematics is tough to beat. An off-peak enterprise class round-trip to London for 2, from Toronto, prices 176,000 Avios with the voucher as an alternative of 352,000. Simply funds for the taxes and service prices on each seats, for the reason that voucher does not contact these.
When you principally journey solo or hardly ever fly British Airways, the voucher is value much less, and the $30,000 in spending is more durable to justify. In that case, a card that earns transferable factors could serve you higher, with Avios nonetheless an choice by a switch.
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^ This supply solely applies to new purposes for a RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card obtained and authorised by Royal Financial institution of Canada (“Royal Financial institution”), topic to the situations under. Extra cardholders(s) (co-applicant and approved consumer(s)) on the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card account aren’t eligible for this supply. Present cardholders on any RBC Royal Financial institution private bank card account transferring to a RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card, aren’t eligible for the supply.
To obtain the supply of fifty,000 Avios factors (“Bonus”), (i) a complete of $6,000 or extra (“Qualifying Transaction Quantity”) in qualifying internet purchases and/or pre-authorized invoice fee transactions (“Qualifying Transactions”) have to be posted to your Credit score Card Account throughout the first 90 days of your Credit score Card Account opening date (“Interval”), and (ii) your Credit score Card should stay open and in good standing, “good standing” which means that your Credit score Card Account should not be overdue for greater than two (2) consecutive Credit score Card Account assertion durations, closed, charged off or in credit score revoked standing at the moment. In case you are not at the moment a member of The British Airways Membership, you can be enrolled mechanically as soon as you might be authorised for the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card. Please notice that the deal with your British Airways Membership account is registered underneath should match the one to your RBC British Airways Visa Infinite account always for the Avios to be posted to your British Airways Membership account. The Bonus will likely be awarded to your British Airways Membership account, roughly 15 weeks after the date you attain $6,000 in Qualifying Transactions throughout the Interval.
Qualifying Transactions exclude money advances (together with steadiness transfers, cash-like transactions and invoice funds that aren’t pre-authorized prices that you just arrange with a service provider), curiosity prices and costs. Credit for returns and changes posted to your Credit score Card Account in the course of the Interval will cut back the quantity of your Qualifying Transactions. The Qualifying Transaction Quantity is predicated on the transaction posting date of every Qualifying Transaction, not the transaction date. Because of this transactions that happen previous to the final day of the Interval won’t be thought-about for the Qualifying Transaction Quantity in the event that they haven’t but been posted or processed by the service provider, the fee community (Visa) or Royal Financial institution by the final day of the Interval.
When you shut or change your RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card for an additional sort of RBC Royal Financial institution bank card earlier than the Bonus has been credited to your British Airways Membership account, it’s possible you’ll lose the advantage of this supply. This supply might not be mixed or used along side some other supply, besides as in any other case set out. Royal Financial institution of Canada and British Airways reserve the proper to switch, cancel or withdraw this supply at any time. British Airways, not Royal Financial institution of Canada, is accountable for this supply and The British Airways Membership program. For all British Airways Membership Phrases and Circumstances, please go to ba.com/theclub.
*Reward Flights can be found to any British Airways Membership Members with an Avios steadiness. Along with your Avios, the one money quantity required for Reward Flights is a hard and fast money quantity. Your chosen date of journey will decide whether or not you pay a peak or off-peak Avios quantity. When reserving Reward Flights, you’ll be able to select all peak dates, all off-peak dates or a mix of the 2. For journey in First, a money quantity to cowl taxes, charges and service prices will likely be payable. The taxes, charges and service prices will fluctuate depending on airline and vacation spot and will likely be calculated while you guide your flights. The ultimate charge (i.e. Avios plus payable taxes, charges and service prices) will likely be displayed on the remaining stage of your reserving. To seek out out extra about Reward Flights click on right here. British Airways Membership Phrases and Circumstances and Circumstances of Use apply.
^ You’ll earn 3 Avios factors for each $1.00 spent on British Airways purchases, together with British Airways Holidays purchases (“British Airways Purchases”) you make in your RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card, supplied that these purchases have been made instantly by British Airways, labeled by Visa’s Service provider Class Code MCC 3005 (“BA MCC”). Regardless that some retailers as a journey company or a third-party reserving website could promote British Airways flights and merchandise, in addition to British Airways Holidays purchases, purchases made at these retailers could not essentially help you earn 3 Avios factors for each $1 spent if the service provider isn’t labeled because the BA MCC. Royal Financial institution of Canada can’t assure whether or not a service provider is assessed because the BA MCC and in no occasion will Royal Financial institution of Canada be liable or accountable for any claims with respect to a British Airways Purchases made at a service provider that isn’t labeled because the BA MCC.
You’ll earn 2 Avios factors for each $1.00 spent on eating and meals supply purchases (“Meals and Supply purchases”) you make in your RBC British Airways Visa Infinite bank card at retailers which might be labeled by the next eligible Visa’s Service provider Class Code (“Eligible MCCs”): “Consuming Place and Eating places” (MCC 5812), “Consuming Locations (Alcoholic Drinks) – Bars, Taverns, Nightclubs, Cocktail Lounges, and Discotheques” (MCC 5813), “Quick Meals Eating places” (MCC 5814), are “Eating and Meals Supply”. Authorities liquor businesses and bundle shops that promote beer, wine, and liquor don’t qualify as a part of the “Consuming Locations (Alcoholic Drinks)– Bars, Taverns, Nightclubs, Cocktail Lounges, and Discotheques”.
Regardless that some retailers could promote meals and meals supply, purchases made at these retailers could not essentially help you earn 2 Avios factors for each $1 spent if the service provider isn’t labeled an Eligible MCC. Additionally, a service provider that isn’t labeled by an Eligible MCC could also be positioned on the premises of a service provider that’s labeled by an Eligible MCC, through which case a purchase order made at this service provider wouldn’t qualify as Meals and Supply purchases. Royal Financial institution of Canada can’t assure whether or not a service provider is assessed by an Eligible MCC and in no occasion will Royal Financial institution of Canada be liable or accountable for any claims with respect to Meals and Supply purchases made at a service provider that isn’t labeled as an Eligible MCC.
You’ll earn 1 Avios per $1 CAD spent on all different qualifying internet purchases while you use your RBC British Airways Visa Infinite card. Avios are earned on qualifying internet purchases solely; they don’t seem to be earned on money advances (together with steadiness transfers, cash-like transactions and invoice funds that aren’t pre-authorized prices that you just arrange with a service provider), curiosity prices or charges, and credit for returns and changes will cut back or cancel the Avios earned by the quantities initially charged.
The place relevant, Avios are awarded primarily based on the Canadian greenback equal of international forex buy transactions. Avios aren’t refundable, transferable, and haven’t any money worth. Please permit as much as eight weeks after transactions are processed to your bank card account for the Avios to be posted to your British Airways Membership account.
^ Eligible Members who spend a minimal of $30,000 CAD on qualifying purchases on their Card in a calendar yr (“calendar yr” refers back to the time interval ranging from 1 January by to 31 December) will obtain a most of 1 Companion Voucher for that calendar yr. As an Eligible Member, it is possible for you to to use the Companion Voucher in direction of the acquisition of a flight for a companion travelling with you, on the identical Reward Flight (“Companion Ticket”).
Alternatively, for all legitimate Companion Vouchers earned, you’ll be able to select to make use of your Companion Voucher to make a solo Reward Flight reserving, which can entitle you to a 50% low cost on the Avios fare to your journey. Taxes charges and prices for you’ll nonetheless be payable (if travelling solo) or in your companion’s ticket (if travelling with a companion).
Please notice that qualifying purchases exclude money advances (together with steadiness transfers, cash-like transactions and invoice funds that aren’t pre-authorized prices that you just arrange with a service provider), curiosity prices or charges, and credit for returns and changes will cut back or cancel the spend quantity by the quantities initially charged.
When reserving a Companion Ticket with a Companion Voucher, you’ll be able to select to make a full Avios redemption or from different Avios and money value choices (topic to fee of the Taxes, Charges and Fees for every seat).
Just one Companion Voucher will be earned in any calendar yr. If an Eligible Member reaches their spend goal earlier than the top of the calendar yr then additional spends, it won’t accumulate in direction of one other Companion Voucher. Eligible Members can start incomes in direction of their subsequent Companion Voucher from 1 January annually. Please permit six (6) to eight (8) weeks for the Companion Voucher to be added to The British Airways Membership account after assembly the spending requirement.
The Companion Voucher entitles the Eligible Member to buy a Companion Ticket on the time of reserving a Reward Flight, with out having to pay for the worth of the companion’s flight. The Companion Voucher will likely be issued within the title of the first cardholder, who should journey on any Companion Voucher reserving. Reservations and bookings for each the Reward Flight of the Eligible Member and the Companion Ticket of the companion have to be made on the similar time, for a similar flight, on the identical date, in the identical class and cabin and on the identical passenger title file (PNR) for journey on the identical itinerary.
Eligible Members will likely be accountable for paying, with out limitation, the taxes, charges and service prices, associated to the Companion Ticket. Costs proven are Reward Flight redemptions. Reward Flight provides prospects nice worth flights with a low, flat charge to cowl taxes, charges and service prices and a hard and fast Avios quantity. To be eligible for Reward Flight, it is advisable to have collected at the very least one Avios previously 12 months. To seek out out extra about Reward Flights, click on right here. On the time of publication, an ordinary Reward Flight reserving or an ordinary Companion ticket reserving (non-Reward Flight) could be topic to taxes of roughly $870 return journey from Vancouver to London in financial system class and roughly $1,900 per individual primarily based on enterprise class journey. To make a reserving, (together with the Companion Ticket) Eligible Members should go to ba.com and log in utilizing their membership quantity and PIN/Password. It isn’t doable to guide a Reward Flight or a Companion Ticket by contacting a journey agent, or on the airport.
The Companion Award Voucher could also be used for flights operated by British Airways solely. Journey on franchise, codeshare or alliance airways isn’t permitted. Return flights have to be booked on the similar time the outward journey is booked. All journey should originate in and return to Canada. Companion Vouchers can be utilized on a a method or return flight. Return flights have to be booked on the similar time the outward journey is booked. All journey should originate in and return to Canada.
A Companion Voucher can solely be used if and when an Eligible Member is reserving a Reward Flight utilizing Avios and can’t be mixed with some other supply, promotion, mileage or frequent flyer programme. Full particulars of fare guidelines will be discovered on ba.com. All Reward Flights and Companion Tickets are topic to availability and there’s no assure Eligible Members will be capable to guide a flight for a companion on the Eligible Member’s selection of flight and vacation spot. The Companion Voucher is barely legitimate if it has been acquired in accordance with these Phrases and Circumstances.
A Companion Voucher is legitimate for 24 (24) months from the date it’s issued and have to be exchanged for a Companion Ticket with journey commencing from Canada earlier than the expiry date on the Companion Voucher. Eligible Members should nonetheless have a Card in good standing on the time of journey. British Airways and/or Royal Financial institution of Canada reserve(s) the proper to refuse to difficulty or to honour any Companion Voucher within the occasion that the Eligible Member is in breach of both these RBC British Airways Visa Infinite Companion Voucher Phrases and Circumstances, their RBC Royal Financial institution Credit score Card Settlement or The British Airways Membership Phrases and Circumstances.
A most of two Companion Vouchers will be redeemed at anybody time on the identical reserving e.g. [2] Avios reward fares plus [2] Companion Voucher tickets.
The Companion Voucher isn’t extendable, refundable, transferable, and has no money or mileage worth. At no time could the Companion Voucher be bought, offered, or bartered however whether it is, any such Companion Voucher will turn out to be void. Companion Vouchers are relevant to new and future bookings solely; they can’t be used to amend or pay for current bookings.
The Companion Ticket is topic to The British Airways Membership Phrases and Circumstances referring to Companion Vouchers. If the Eligible Member cancels the Companion Ticket reserving greater than twenty-four (24) hours previous to the scheduled departure of the outbound flight from Canada, British Airways will redeposit the Companion Voucher which can solely be legitimate for the rest of its unique twenty-four (24) month expiry interval primarily based on the unique date of difficulty. Reward Flight bookings and Companion Tickets cancelled inside twenty-four (24) hours of departure will end result within the Companion Voucher and Avios being cancelled with none risk of being reissued or credited to the Eligible Member. Please go to the complete British Airways Membership Phrases and Circumstances discovered on-line right here.
^ Underneath 65 years of age, 31 consecutive days of protection. For age 65 and over, 7 consecutive days of protection. Protection underwritten by RBC Insurance coverage Firm of Canada. All insurance coverage is topic to phrases, situations, limitations and exclusions. Seek advice from the insurance coverage certificates for full particulars.
^ 10% off British Airways flights round-trip flights originating in and returning to Canada while you guide on ba.com/RBC10 and pay along with your RBC BA Visa Infinite card. With a view to participate within the 10% promotion, RBC British Airways Visa Infinite cardholders should log in at ba.com/RBC10 utilizing their British Airways Membership username and PIN and make a roundtrip reserving now by December 31, 2026 and enter the promotion code CARDOFFERC within the marked field on the Value Quote web page of the reserving course of. A ten% low cost is legitimate on the full roundtrip value, together with taxes, charges and service prices, on mainline flights operated by British Airways bought now by December 31, 2026 solely. Journey have to be absolutely accomplished by December 15, 2027 (departure and return). A ten% low cost will seem in the course of the remaining fee web page. Fares not bought by ba.com/RBC10 don’t qualify for the low cost. Low cost isn’t legitimate for flights on code share or franchise carriers. All guidelines of roundtrip fare bought apply, together with advance buy, minimal keep, weekend add-ons, and cancellation/refund guidelines. Provide is non-transferable and can’t be mixed with some other supply. Legitimate for brand new bookings solely made by Canadian residents paying in CAD utilizing a sound British Airways Visa‡ card issued by Royal Financial institution of Canada for roundtrip journey commencing from Canada to London and past. Low cost is taken off the full roundtrip value of each ticket together with taxes and costs on the identical reserving. 10% low cost applies for as much as eight passengers booked on the identical British Airways reserving for a similar flights. Cardholder should journey to qualify for the ten% low cost. Refunds from beforehand bought fare sorts not permitted. The ten% low cost not combinable with some other supply and is taken off legitimate, printed fares solely and is topic to availability. Provide is topic to British Airways fare guidelines and situations of contract accessible on ba.com and could also be restricted or withdrawn at any time with out advance discover. Different important restrictions could apply. Newly enrolled British Airways Membership members, please permit 24 hours to make use of the promotion code. British Airways, not Royal Financial institution of Canada, is accountable for the phrases and situations of this supply and The British Airways Membership programme.
