

On October 31, 2017, BrandSpark announces Air Miles as the most trusted brand in Loyalty Program category. In a statement release announcing the about face changes LoyaltyOne promised to ensure that they will still find a way to keep the rewards program profitable: "Going forward, LoyaltyOne will adjust the value proposition to collectors to offset the lost economics … and to maintain, as closely as possible, the economics of the Air Miles reward program prior to cancellation of the expiry policy" Ī proposed Class Action lawsuit was launched in Alberta. On DecemAir Miles reversed their decision to expire members points, and cited that legislation that is about to be passed in Ontario that forbids the expiration of points would create problems in managing the program with various rules in each Province. Customers complained that they 'wasted' points on things they didn't want in fear of losing all the points that had been collected.

Members who redeemed the points fearing their loss were then outraged about having used up their collected points needlessly. In 2016 with months before the January 1st 2017 deadline was about to be enacted, Canadian news media began to heavily report on the impending deadline with stories of Canadian's struggling to redeem their long collected points. In 2011 Air Miles Canada announced that all points would expire with no compensation to its members after 5 years of being issued. Cash Rewards or Dream Rewards are redeemable with hundreds of rewards partners across Canada. Businesses Air Miles Īir Miles is a Canadian rewards program, with over 11 million active collector accounts within approximately two-thirds of all Canadian households. In 1998, Alliance Data acquired Loyalty Management Group Canada Inc., parent company of the AIR MILES program, and in 2008 renamed it LoyaltyOne. This resulted in the March 1992 launch of the Air Miles reward program. In 1991, entrepreneurs Craig Underwood, Sam Duboc, and Rob Gierkink began planning a coalition loyalty program, involving partners drawn from retail and financial services sectors. ( January 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. This section may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral.
