Feb
01
2025
Bilt Rewards is back with its Rent Day offers for February 1. The headline here is up to a 100% transfer bonus to Star Alliance program Avianca LifeMiles.
TODAY: Up To 100% LifeMiles Transfer Bonus With Bilt
Credit Cards
Category Archives for Credit Cards.
Capital One Cutback: No More Unlimited Priority Pass Guests
Dec
31
2024
This appears to be new language. The card has covered unlimited guests in the past. I’ve reached out to Capital One for clarification about whether this is a hard limit that’s already gone into effect, or just a change in marketing language.
Start 2025 With Accor Platinum Status Through Bilt’s Exclusive New Year’s Match – Limited Time Rent Day Perks
Dec
26
2024
Bilt’s first Rent Day of 2025 has an elite status offer with Accor hotels as its headline affair. Accor has 55 brands, with a huge footprint in Europe and they’re large in Asia as well. Some of their most recognizable are Fairmont, Orient Express, Raffles, Novotel and Sofitel.
Earn 100,000 Points Paying Your Mortgage With Mesa’s No Annual Fee Card – Plus $700 In Statement Credits
Dec
22
2024
Mesa offers a points-earning ‘mortgage marketplace’ and a no annual fee credit card that earns points for paying your mortgage (up to 100,000 points per year). The card has been in limited release with a wait list, but they say it will be opening up broadly during January.
CFPB’s Warning Shot Says Airline Miles Devaluations Are Now Illegal Bait-and-Switch—Just Empty Words From Regulators?
Dec
18
2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched a broadside against credit card rewards programs. I spoke with CFPB’s Director, Rohit Chopra about the effort.
The agency warns that several aspects of credit card rewards programs – like devaluations – may violate the law, that retail (store) cards are often poor value, and that consumers can be misled by tools that purport to suggest the best product for them.
Exclusive: Alaska Airlines’ New Premium Card Global Companion Award And Fee Waiver Details Revealed
Dec
13
2024
Alaska Airlines announced this week that the move to a single loyalty program with Hawaiian Airlines will come this summer, and that they’ll also launch a premium credit card at that time.
Brett Catlin, Alaska’s Vice President of Loyalty, Alliances and Sales, shared some additional details about the card’s companion award certificate with me.
American Express Adds Hilton Statement Credit Benefit To Business Platinum Card
Dec
12
2024
I was approved for this card early in 2024 and now face a choice over whether it’s worth keeping. For now, this Hilton benefit is additive. I suspect it will be more valuable to me than benefits that we may lose – but split up quarterly, at $50 per quarter, requires somewhat regular business with Hilton to maximize and I’m not a Hilton regular. So I’ll have to factor the increased effort (compared to, for instance, making an online Dell purchase) into the equation.
Unlock 56,000 Miles For Free with Capital One’s YieldStreet Offer—No Investment, Just These Simple Steps
Dec
07
2024
Capital One is offering up to 56,000 miles for signing up with Yieldstreet via Capital One Offers. The real value here is you need to open an account, but it doesn’t look like you need to fund the account or invest.
Barclays Cards To Disappear: How Citi’s New Exclusive Deal With American Airlines Will Reshape Your Miles Strategy
Dec
05
2024
American Airlines and Citibank have entered into an agreement to extend their cobrand credit card agreement by 10 years. This deal pushes out Barclays, and makes Citi the sole issuer of American Airlines credit cards in the U.S. starting in 2026.
We will start to see points transfers from Citibank to American AAdvantage and likely more.
Big Changes For Bilt Rewards In 2025: Earn Points On Mortgages, New Credit Card Strategy, And Expanded Benefits
Dec
03
2024
This morning Bilt is out with a new message to program members that reveals a real pivot in strategy. The message is ‘we’re not just a credit card’.
In this message they lay out some of their vision for 2025, walk through their economics, and drop what I view as something of a bombshell.
