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Good morning from Montreal, where fall is in full swing. 🍁

I flew up here yesterday using one of my favorite airline sweet spots – and I’m excited to tell you about how you can do the same:

• 🍬 My new favorite sweet spot

• ✈️ Rove added JetBlue as a transfer partner

• 🤣 Meme

🍬 My new favorite sweet spot

Okay, guys. I need to tell you about a sweet spot that I’ve been using left and right over the last couple of months that I think you’ll love.

It’s nothing new, but I’ve been taking advantage of it since being back in Canada – though it is absolutely relevant to you folks “south of the border” too. 😉

I’m talking about redeeming Alaska Atmos Rewards for flights on Porter Airlines.

What is Porter Airlines?

Porter is a beloved Canadian airline that has a reputation for being… well… great.

They used to only operate a small fleet of Bombardier Dash-8 turboprop planes, but recently expanded their fleet with Embraer 195 E2 jets, allowing them to fly all over North America.

The claim to fame with Porter is that they have no middle seats. On any plane. Even on a long, 6-hour flight between Toronto and Los Angeles, no middle seats.

Plus, they serve free alcohol to all passengers and offer free Wi-Fi on all of their Embraers (which is mostly what you’ll fly except for very short regional hops).

They’ve expanded their route network domestically in Canada, but they also fly all over the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean, and are rapidly expanding their fleet and destinations.

Now, here’s why booking them with points is so awesome.

Book Porter flights for 4,500 Atmos points

Short flights on Porter cost as few as 4,500 Atmos points in economy or 6,000 points in “PorterReserve” (more on that in a minute).

This covers routes between cities in the U.S. like New York and Boston and Canadian cities like Halifax, Toronto, and Montreal.

Flying to and from Canada can get really expensive, so I love this deal. Plus, Atmos is the only partner program of Porter, so availability is ample.

What is PorterReserve?

Porter only has economy seats. It’s one of the nice things about Porter, in my opinion. No middle seats, but nothing fancy.

However, they do offer a premium product, PorterReserve, which gets you:

• An extra legroom seat up front

• Priority check-in, security, and boarding

• Free premium snacks and drinks on board

• Two checked bags

In other words, paying 1,500 extra Atmos points on shorter flights gets you ALL of those extra perks, which is amazing.

Pricing is also good on longer routes

Even when you break the smallest distance band, the pricing is still fantastic. For example, you can fly between Fort Lauderdale and Montreal for 7,500 Atmos points on Porter, or 10,000 points for PorterReserve. 👇

In that case, you’re paying 2,500 extra points for extra legroom, free checked bags, a smooth airport experience, free premium snacks, free alcoholic drinks, and free Wi-Fi.

That’s pretty solid.

Domestically, this is a huge win

If you’re flying around Canada, this is huge. Most Canadians don’t have access to Atmos points, and other programs like Aeroplan are insanely expensive.

Take my trip to Saskatoon next month. Aeroplan was charging a minimum of 27,000 points in economy, or 40,000+ in business class.

Meanwhile, Atmos had availability every single day on Porter for just 10,000 in PorterReserve, which is obviously what I ended up booking.

How to get Atmos points

Atmos points are hard to earn… but they also really pay off, as is clear from sweet spots like this.

Bilt Rewards is the easiest path to Atmos points.

On a card like this one, you could earn 50,000 Bilt Points (after spending $4,000 on purchases in the first 90 days) from the welcome offer alone, which you could transfer straight to Atmos.

Alternatively, you could check out Atmos’ co-branded credit cards for another easy way to snag some points.

The bottom line

I’ve personally booked six Porter flights with my Atmos points for flights between now and January. I just flew PorterReserve last night and really enjoyed my experience.

Porter flies all over Canada, and even to many U.S. cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Austin, Nashville, Chicago, New York, Boston, and like six cities in Florida.

So whether you want to come up to Quebec for the Christmas markets, road trip around Banff, or just come hang out with me in Toronto, Atmos points open up one of the best sweet spots in North America.

✈️ Rove added JetBlue as a transfer partner

As of about 30 minutes ago, Rove has added JetBlue TrueBlue as its latest transfer partner.

That brings their list up to a whopping 22 airline and hotel partners, which is insane.

It’s cool to see Rove branching out and adding more U.S. airline programs, especially at a 1:1 ratio.

Keep in mind that even MR points and Capital One miles don’t transfer to JetBlue at a 1:1 ratio, so this is actually a fantastic bit of news.

Anyway, to celebrate this launch, Rove is also throwing in a 20% transfer bonus until November 14.

How can you use JetBlue points?

Well, for starters, you can use them to fly JetBlue.

Earlier this year, I flew JetBlue from Boston to Pittsburgh for just 11,500 JetBlue points.

That was less than what any other airline was charging for the same route.

But you can also use points to fly what is arguably the best business class in North America, JetBlue Mint.

JetBlue offers these lie-flat seats on many of its flights both domestically and internationally.

For example, this flight from New York to Los Angeles can be booked in lie-flat Mint for 69,000 JetBlue points. 👇

With a 20% transfer bonus, that’s just under 58,000 Rove Miles. Still a lot for a domestic flight, but not bad at all for 6.5 hours in a lie-flat pod.

The bottom line

If you haven’t boarded the Rove Miles train yet, this might be one of the things that changes your mind.

Rove is constantly adding new partners and offers tons of ways to rack up a lot of miles very quickly.

If you haven’t joined Rove, sign up now and get 1,000 Rove miles instantly.

Then, keep racking up miles, and you might just find yourself in a lie-flat seat with a glass of champagne in the near future. 😉

🤣 Meme

That’s all for today, friends! 4,500-point flights, a 20% bonus to JetBlue – today is an exciting day indeed.

I hope you enjoyed the newsletter, and I’ll see you again tomorrow.

Au revoir,

45.5088° N, 73.5878° W

With contributions by Sam Anthony and Katie Begnoche.