CIBC · Visa
Free, earning 1 Aeroplan point a dollar on gas, groceries and Air Canada. The only no fee route into Aeroplan from a big bank.
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What we like, and what we don’t
Worth having
- No annual fee and no fee for additional cards
- 1 Aeroplan point a dollar on gas, EV charging, groceries and Air Canada, with no published cap
- Aeroplan points earned here are the same points the $599 cards earn
- Additional points at over 150 Aeroplan partners and the Aeroplan eStore
- A low $15,000 household income requirement
Watch out for
- Everything outside the bonus categories earns 1 point per $1.50
- No travel medical insurance on an Air Canada co-branded card
- No lounge access, no priority boarding and no free checked bag
- CIBC does not publish the insurance limits on the product page
What this card earns
- Groceries
- 1x
- Gas
- 1x
- Travel
- 1x
- Everything else
- 0.67x
- Bonus categories at once
- 1 you choose which
- What we value a point at
- 2¢
The earning fine print
CIBC's exact wording: '1 point per $1' on gas, EV charging, groceries and Air Canada purchases, and '1 point per $1.50' on all other purchases (restated as 0.67 points per $1 for earn_base). No annual earn caps published. Additional points are available through 150+ Aeroplan partners and the Aeroplan eStore. Cash advance fee $5.00 in Canada / $7.50 outside Canada; cash advance and balance transfer rate 22.99% (21.99% for Quebec residents). This is the card CIBC formerly marketed as the CIBC Aeroplan Visa Platinum.
The welcome offer
- Welcome bonus
- 2,500 points after you spend $0
- Second tier
- 2,500 points after you spend $1,500, within 4 months
What the offer actually requires
Up to 10,000 Aeroplan points, which CIBC quotes as 'up to $200 in value': 2,500 points on the first purchase; 2,500 points when $1,500 is spent within the first 4 statement periods; and 5,000 anniversary points when net purchases reach $10,000 or more in the first 12 months. No offer end date published. The 5,000-point anniversary tier does not fit the two-tier schema and is described here. Bonus_tier2_months of 4 represents 4 statement periods.
Fees and interest rates
- Annual fee
- None
- Additional card
- Free
- Foreign transaction fee
- 2.5%
- Purchase APR
- 21.99%
- Cash advance APR
- 22.99%
- Balance transfer APR
- 22.99%
Who can get this card
- Minimum personal income
- Not published by the issuer
- Minimum household income
- $15,000
Insurance and benefits
- Rental car damage waiver
- Included
- Purchase protection
- Included
- Extended warranty
- Included
What the benefits really mean
No Air Canada carrier surcharges on Aeroplan flight rewards. 4th night free on eligible hotel bookings. Free Skip+ membership. 50% off Disney+ for 6 months. $0 CIBC Global Money Transfer fee to 120+ countries. Aeroplan Family Sharing. Points do not expire while the card is active. Insurance listed: Purchase Security and Extended Protection, Common Carrier Accident, and Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage. CIBC publishes no dollar amounts for these on the product page. No emergency travel medical insurance. The brief's 'CIBC Aeroplan Visa Platinum' no longer exists under that name. The current product is the CIBC Aeroplan Visa Card and is a $0 fee card, not a $99 Platinum tier. Base earn is 1 point per $1.50, i.e. Below one point per dollar on most spend. The advertised 10,000-point welcome requires a $10,000 spend anniversary tier to reach the full amount. No emergency travel medical insurance on an airline co-brand. Insurance dollar amounts are NOT PUBLISHED on the product page.
Our verdict
At our valuation Aeroplan points are worth two cents each, which makes 1 point a dollar on groceries and fuel worth about 2% back on a card that costs nothing. That is better than almost every free cash back card in this comparison, and the points are the same currency the premium Aeroplan cards earn rather than a watered down version.
What you give up is everything else. No checked bag, no lounge, no priority boarding, and no travel medical insurance on a card branded for an airline. The base rate of a point per $1.50 is also below one to one, so keep non category spending off it. As a free way to accumulate a real travel currency, though, it is the best option here.
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Where this came from. CIBC Aeroplan Visa product page (fee, earn rates, welcome tiers, income requirement, benefits) and CIBC's Credit Card Summary of Annual Interest Rates and Fees PDF for the 21.99%/22.99% rates and 2.5% foreign currency markup. This entry answers the brief's 'CIBC Aeroplan Visa Platinum'. CIBC's current lineup has no card by that name.. We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.