Chase and Air Canada have given their co-branded credit card a seasonal refresh, renaming it the Chase Air Canada Aeroplan Card and pairing the relaunch with the richest welcome offer the product has ever carried.
New cardmembers can earn 75,000 bonus points after spending $4,000 on purchases within the first three months of opening an account. There's a second tier for bigger spenders: an extra 40,000 bonus points land after you put $20,000 on the card in the first 12 months. Hit both and you're looking at 115,000 Aeroplan points — enough for serious long-haul redemptions, particularly on Air Canada's network across Canada, the US, Europe and beyond.
The offer is explicitly limited-time, tied to the autumn refresh, so anyone who has been sitting on the fence about a Canadian airline points card has a reason to move now rather than later. Aeroplan points are generally more valuable when spent on Star Alliance partner flights too, which widens the options well beyond Air Canada metal.
For travellers, the maths is straightforward: the initial $4,000 spend threshold is reachable for most households within three months of everyday spending, and 75,000 points alone can cover or substantially offset a transatlantic or transcontinental award seat. The 12-month, $20,000 second bonus is more of a stretch and really aimed at people who already put large spend on cards — but it's a meaningful sweetener if that's your normal pattern.
Worth factoring in before applying: weigh the card's annual fee against how often you actually fly Air Canada or its Star Alliance partners, and remember award availability on popular routes can be tight during peak summer and holiday periods. If your travel skews elsewhere — Asia, the Middle East, domestic US — a different airline or flexible-points card may serve you better. But for anyone with Canada trips on the horizon, this is one of the stronger entry points into Aeroplan we've seen.
