TD · Visa
$89 for an entry level Aeroplan card, waived in the first year. The base rate is a point per $1.50, which is below the one to one most people assume.
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What we like, and what we don’t
Worth having
- The $89 fee is waived in the first year, so the welcome offer is free money
- Up to 20,000 Aeroplan points across two easy tiers, one of which needs only a first purchase
- 1 point a dollar on gas, EV charging, groceries and Air Canada
- Rental car collision damage and $1,000 of mobile device insurance
- Aeroplan points are worth the same here as on the premium cards, so the currency is real
Watch out for
- Everything outside the four bonus categories earns 1 point per $1.50, which is below 1x
- The four bonus categories share a single $80,000 annual cap rather than getting one each
- No emergency travel medical insurance at all, on an airline co-branded card
- Additional cards cost $35 each
- The fee returns in year two with no waiver
What this card earns
- Groceries
- 1x
- Gas
- 1x
- Travel
- 1x
- Everything else
- 0.67x
- Bonus rates apply up to
- $80,000 of annual spending after that, the base rate
- Bonus categories at once
- 1 you choose which
- What we value a point at
- 2¢
The earning fine print
TD's exact wording: '1 Aeroplan point for every $1' spent on gas, EV charging, groceries and purchases made directly with Air Canada, subject to an annual cap of $80,000 in qualifying purchases; and '1 Aeroplan point for every $1.50' on all other purchases (restated as 0.67 points per $1 for earn_base). Conservative reading: the $80,000 cap is a single shared cap across all four accelerated categories, not $80,000 per category. TD does not state whether the cap runs on the calendar year or the account anniversary. Aeroplan partner brands and the Aeroplan eStore pay additional points when the Aeroplan number is supplied.
The welcome offer
- Welcome bonus
- 10,000 points after you spend $0
- Second tier
- 10,000 points after you spend $1,500, within 3 months
- Also included
- The first-year annual fee is waived
What the offer actually requires
Up to $500 in first-year value: 10,000 Aeroplan points on the first purchase, a further 10,000 points when $1,500 is spent within 90 days, and a first-year annual fee rebate for the primary cardholder and up to three additional cardholders. Offer effective March 2, 2026; TD publishes no expiry.
Fees and interest rates
- Annual fee
- $89 waived the first year
- Additional card
- $35
- Foreign transaction fee
- Not published by the issuer
- Purchase APR
- 21.99%
- Cash advance APR
- 22.99%
Who can get this card
- Minimum personal income
- Not published by the issuer
Insurance and benefits
- Flight delay
- $500
- Baggage delay
- $1,000
- Mobile device
- $1,000
- Rental car damage waiver
- Included
- Purchase protection
- Included
- Extended warranty
- Included
What the benefits really mean
Delayed and Lost Baggage up to $1,000; Flight/Trip Delay up to $500 for delays of 4+ hours; Common Carrier Travel Accident up to $500,000; Hotel/Motel Burglary up to $2,500; Mobile Device Insurance up to $1,000; Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage for rentals up to 48 consecutive days; Purchase Security and Extended Warranty Protection. No emergency travel medical insurance and no trip cancellation or interruption insurance. The four accelerated categories share a single $80,000 annual cap; TD's marketing shows '1 point per $1' with the cap only in the footnote. The base earn is 1 point per $1.50, i.e. Below one point per dollar. The card earns less than 1x on most spend. No emergency travel medical insurance despite being an airline co-brand. Annual fee rebate is first year only. TD does not publish the FX fee for this card anywhere we could fetch.
Our verdict
As a first Aeroplan card this works. The fee is waived in year one, the first welcome tier needs nothing more than a purchase, and Aeroplan points earned here are the same points the $599 cards earn. At our valuation, a point a dollar on groceries and fuel is effectively 2% back, which beats most cash back cards.
The base rate is the problem and TD does not lead with it. Outside gas, groceries, EV charging and Air Canada, the card pays a point per $1.50, so most spending earns about 1.3% at our valuation. And an Air Canada co-brand with no travel medical insurance is a strange gap. Use it for the bonus categories and the welcome offer, and put the rest somewhere else.
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Where this came from. TD Aeroplan Visa Platinum product page and TD's browse-all-credit-cards page. TD does not publish a per-card rates-and-fees document on the open web; the cardholder agreement PDFs defer all fee figures to a separate Disclosure Statement issued at account opening, so the FX fee is NOT PUBLISHED.. 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.