expedia.com $50 mobile coupon, $5 off rogers wireless bills, air canada rouge changes their point earning structure

1) expedia.com is offering a $50 off voucher to first-time hotel purchases on their expedia app using the code found below. it has a minimum $200 purchase, which may limit its use to stays greater than 3-4 days in length. that would in turn limit the effectiveness of expedia's best rate guarantee. on the other hand, i was looking at my one night hotel booking for singapore, and realized that in itself, it would be $200 before tax ...

 

2) rogers wireless customers can save $5 off of their monthly bill (one time only) by signing up for their wireless promotional texts. i found out about it via a website ad, with further details confirmed through here. these texts are supposedly up to a max of 4x a week, and for deals and coupons for everyday services in your area. i signed up for it. after i see the $5 credit to my account, i'm probably going to unsubscribe.

3) air canada announced two days ago that their new airline, air canada rouge, will be changing its point accumulation structure to fall more in line with their mainline. this removes the ridiculously low 800 / 400 qualifying mile (flex/tango, respectively) earnings per flight to something more lucrative. 

the tango booking classes seem larger than before (T/L/K have been added to tango even internationally with rouge), but 50% is still likely more than 400 elite qualifying miles on any of their flights. this is indeed a positive move. as someone on flyertalk pointed out, rouge can now at least be considered instead of simply passed over for other airlines who can give more qualifying points. it's great news indeed ...