{"id":25649,"date":"2021-12-13T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t3_rfgvlx"},"modified":"2021-12-13T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:25:24","slug":"scotias-new-scene-program-completely-changes-how-travel-points-redemption-works-and-their-travel-rewards-suck-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/13\/scotias-new-scene-program-completely-changes-how-travel-points-redemption-works-and-their-travel-rewards-suck-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotia&#8217;s New Scene+ Program Completely Changes How Travel Points Redemption Works and Their Travel Rewards Suck Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Previously one of the best features of the Scotia Rewards program imo was that you could book travel anywhere and then apply points to that purchase. Even if you didn&#39;t have enough points to cover the entire purchase you could still redeem some to act as a discount at a rate of 1point=1cent.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Booked a flight directly through Air Canada for $1000 with Scotia Gold AMEX<\/li>\n<li>Redeemed 15,000 points against that flight through Scotia Rewards<\/li>\n<li>Got a $150 credit from Scotiabank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was great because it meant you didn&#39;t have to save up points for ages to redeem them, the flexibility was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you try the same thing through Scene+ you get this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Booked a flight directly through Air Canada for $1000 with Scotia Gold AMEX<\/li>\n<li>Only have 15,000 points available<\/li>\n<li>Try to redeem points against that flight purchase<\/li>\n<li>&quot; Your points balance does not meet the required amount for this purchase, please choose another amount. You need 85,000 more points to complete this order&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think with this, the value of Scotiabank&#39;s credit cards has dropped immensely. I hope this is just an oversight that will be resolved soon during the Scene+ transition. Unless this change is resolved I think it may be worthwhile to look at other travel credit cards rather than Scotiabank&#39;s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/_Kinel_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \/u\/_Kinel_ <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/rfgvlx\/scotias_new_scene_program_completely_changes_how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#32; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/rfgvlx\/scotias_new_scene_program_completely_changes_how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><a href=\"\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously one of the best features of the Scotia Rewards program imo was that you could book travel anywhere and then apply points to that purchase. Even if you didn&#39;t have enough points to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}