RBC Avion Rewards: cards, earning and redemption

What Avion Rewards covers

Avion Rewards sits on a family of RBC credit cards rather than on a single product. RBC groups three travel cards under the Avion name — the RBC Avion Visa Infinite, the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Privilege and the RBC Avion Visa Platinum — inside a travel category it describes as earning rewards points toward a trip. [2] [7] The three cards are pitched differently: the Infinite is described as best for travellers who want flexibility, the Infinite Privilege as offering exclusive rewards, elite perks and lounge access, and the Platinum as travel points you can use on any flight, anytime. [2] [7]

Avion points are not confined to Avion-branded cards. The RBC ION Visa and RBC ION+ Visa, which RBC files under everyday rewards rather than travel, advertise their welcome offers in Avion points. [2] [7] RBC also issues cards that earn other currencies entirely: the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard and WestJet RBC Mastercard earn WestJet points, and the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite earns Avios on every purchase. [2] [7] For those cards RBC says the currency is redeemed directly with the airline loyalty programme connected to the card, not at avionrewards.com. [2] [7]

Earning: the published card terms

Because Avion points come from several cards, the earning picture is a card-by-card picture. The offer panels list the following, each presented as a promotional offer with an application deadline. [2] [7]

• RBC Avion Visa Infinite. Annual fee $120, additional card $50, purchase rate 20.99%, cash advance rate 22.99%; up to 70,000 Avion points, described as a travel value of up to $1,500, for applications by 25 November 2026. [2] [7]
• RBC Avion Visa Infinite Privilege. The card comes with exclusive rewards, elite perks and lounge access. [2] [7]
• RBC Avion Visa Platinum. The card offers travel points usable on any flight, anytime. [2] [7]
• RBC ION+ Visa. Annual fee $48, additional card $0, purchase rate 20.99%, cash advance rate 22.99%; up to 28,000 Avion points, described as up to $200 of value in gift cards, for applications by 4 November 2026. [2] [7]
• RBC ION Visa. No annual fee and a $0 additional card, purchase rate 20.99%, cash advance rate 22.99%; up to 14,000 Avion points, described as up to $100 of value in gift cards, for applications by 4 November 2026. [2] [7]

Those 20.99% purchase and 22.99% cash advance figures belong to the cards named above, not to RBC cards in general: other cards on the same pages show different numbers, such as 21.99% purchase on the cash back cards and 12.99% purchase and 14.99% cash advance on the low-rate card. [2] [7] RBC keeps annual fees on a separate comparison page and directs readers to a credit card interest rates chart to compare purchase and cash advance rates across its range. [2] [7] Fees and offer values are quoted in dollars on RBC's Canadian credit card pages. [2] [7]

Redeeming and moving points

RBC's answer on redemption is short: Avion points can be redeemed for travel, merchandise, gift cards and more at avionrewards.com. [2] [7]

The only point-to-value figures on the pages appear inside welcome offers, and they are expressed in two different ways. The Avion Visa Infinite offer describes up to 70,000 Avion points as a travel value of up to $1,500, while the ION+ and ION offers describe up to 28,000 and up to 14,000 points as up to $200 and up to $100 of value in gift cards. [2] [7] Those are promotional framings tied to application deadlines rather than a published redemption rate, and the travel-value and gift-card-value versions are not stated in the same terms. [2] [7]

The only airline-programme redemption they describe belongs to the separate cards that earn WestJet points and Avios, which are redeemed with the airline programme itself. [2] [7]

Exceptions and limits

• Card terms differ. Annual fees, interest rates and welcome offers vary by card. [2] [7]
• Offers are time-limited and conditional. Each offer carries its own application deadline, uses "up to" amounts, and is marked with footnote symbols referring to legal disclaimers that are not reproduced in the text checked. [2] [7]
• Two different value measures. The Avion Visa Infinite offer is framed as travel value, the ION and ION+ offers as gift-card value; RBC does not present them as a single comparison. [2] [7]
• Not every RBC card earns Avion points. Cards earning WestJet points or Avios are redeemed with the airline programme connected to the card, so their rules are not Avion Rewards rules. [2] [7]

Related pages

Choose between Canadian card currencies with the American Express Membership Rewards Canada profile, the card selection framework and how to choose your main programme. For the vocabulary used above, see flexible points, fixed-value points, cents per point and transfer ratio.

Sources

Sources checked on 18 October 2026. It covers RBC Avion Rewards as described on RBC's Canadian credit card pages; other Canadian card programmes, including American Express Membership Rewards, are not covered here, and the airline currencies that some RBC cards earn, such as WestJet points and Avios, are not covered either.

1. RBC credit cards: Avion, travel and rewards card overview and offers, checked 18 October 2026
2. RBC credit cards index: card offers and Avion Rewards redemption questions, checked 18 October 2026