RBC · Mastercard
$39 for 1.5 WestJet points a dollar on WestJet flights and dining, and a companion voucher that starts at $199 plus taxes.
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What we like, and what we don’t
Worth having
- Only $39 a year, the cheapest airline co-brand in this comparison
- 1.5 points a dollar on WestJet flights, WestJet Vacations and Sunwing Vacations
- 1.5 points a dollar at restaurants, on food delivery, digital subscriptions, streaming and games
- Rental car collision damage waiver included
- Up to 15,000 WestJet points in the welcome offer
Watch out for
- No emergency medical, no trip cancellation and no trip interruption insurance on a travel card
- The companion voucher is not free. It starts at $199 plus taxes and fees
- The recurring annual voucher requires $2,500 of card spending to earn
- WestJet points can only be redeemed for WestJet flights and vacation packages, never for cash
- Everything outside the bonus categories earns 1 point a dollar
- Additional cards cost $19 each
What this card earns
- Dining and restaurants
- 1.5x
- Travel
- 1.5x
- Entertainment
- 1.5x
- Everything else
- 1x
- Bonus categories at once
- 1 you choose which
- What we value a point at
- 1¢
The earning fine print
The entry tier of the WestJet co-brand, sitting below the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard. AT THE PARTNER: 1.5 WestJet points per dollar on WestJet flights, WestJet Vacations and Sunwing Vacations. ELEVATED CATEGORIES: 1.5 points per dollar at restaurants and on food delivery, digital subscriptions, streaming services and digital games. EVERYWHERE ELSE: 1 point per dollar. Including groceries, gas, drugstore and transit. RBC publishes no annual earn cap. IMPORTANT: the WestJet co-brand portfolio was refreshed and now earns WestJet points, not the old 'WestJet dollars'; earn and redemption figures published before the 2025 refresh do not apply.
The welcome offer
- Welcome bonus
- 15,000 points
What the offer actually requires
RBC advertises 'up to 15,000 WestJet points, that's a value of up to $150 off travel'. RBC does not publish the spend requirement, the qualifying period or an offer end date on the product page, all recorded as NOT PUBLISHED. Note that RBC's own '$150' framing implies a redemption value of roughly 1 cent per WestJet point, but RBC does not state a guaranteed fixed value, so point_value_cents is left as NOT PUBLISHED.
Fees and interest rates
- Annual fee
- $39
- Additional card
- $19
- Foreign transaction fee
- Not published by the issuer
- Purchase APR
- 20.99%
- Cash advance APR
- 22.99%
Who can get this card
- Minimum personal income
- Not published by the issuer
Insurance and benefits
- Rental car damage waiver
- Included
- Purchase protection
- Included
- Extended warranty
- Included
- Annual travel credit
- $0
What the benefits really mean
Coverages listed by RBC for this card: Travel Accident, Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage, Purchase Security and Extended Warranty, Mobile Device Insurance (added 5 November 2025), Delayed Baggage, and Hotel/Motel Burglary. There is NO out-of-province emergency medical, NO trip cancellation and NO trip interruption insurance on this tier. From RBC's certificate of insurance for the WestJet RBC Mastercard: Travel Accident up to $500,000 CAD on a common carrier; Auto Rental Collision/Loss Damage on vehicles up to $65,000 CDN MSRP excluding taxes, for rentals of up to 48 consecutive days, including towing, storage, loss of use and up to $50 of rental agency administration charge. RBC does not publish dollar limits for Delayed Baggage, Hotel/Motel Burglary, Purchase Security, Extended Warranty or Mobile Device Insurance on either the product page or the certificate excerpt, recorded as NOT PUBLISHED. The signature benefit is the annual round-trip companion voucher: the welcome voucher starts at $199 CAD plus taxes, fees and charges, and to earn the recurring annual voucher you must spend at least $2,500 on the card each year; alternatively the voucher can be taken as a 25% discount on base airfare or 5,000 WestJet points. RBC publishes no minimum income and no foreign currency conversion fee on this product page. Marketed as a travel card but carries NO emergency medical, NO trip cancellation and NO trip interruption insurance. The World Elite tier is where those live. The companion voucher is not free: the welcome voucher starts at $199 plus taxes, fees and charges, and the recurring annual voucher requires $2,500 of annual card spend. Companion voucher pricing is 'starting at' $199. The actual price varies by route and is not published as a flat figure. WestJet points are redeemable only in the WestJet ecosystem; RBC publishes no guaranteed fixed value. RBC does not publish the spend requirement for the 15,000-point welcome offer. RBC does not publish the foreign currency conversion fee on this product page. Do not assume 2.5% without loading RBC's fee schedule. The portfolio was refreshed in 2025 from WestJet dollars to WestJet points; any pre-2025 comparison data for this card is stale.
Our verdict
At $39 this is an inexpensive way into the WestJet ecosystem, and the 1.5 point rate on restaurants, streaming and subscriptions is broader than most airline cards offer at any price. If you fly WestJet a couple of times a year, the maths works out.
The companion voucher needs reading carefully, because it is the headline benefit and it is not free. The welcome voucher starts at $199 plus taxes and fees, the recurring one requires $2,500 of spending, and the actual price varies by route without being published. And like several airline co-brands here, this card carries no travel medical or trip cancellation cover, which is where the World Elite tier earns its higher fee.
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Where this came from. RBC product page for the WestJet RBC Mastercard (annual fee $39, supplementary $19, 20.99% purchases, 22.99% cash advances, earn rates, welcome offer, companion voucher terms) plus RBC's certificate of insurance for the WestJet RBC Mastercard (travel accident $500,000; auto rental $65,000 MSRP / 48 days). Verified open to applications 18 Aug 2026.. 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.