Bilt is out with news that they’ve added Southwest Airlines as a transfer partner. Outside of hotel programs, previously only Chase Ultimate Rewards points transferred to Southwest.
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Up To 100% Transfer Bonus From Bilt To British Airways, Iberia, And Aer Lingus
Bilt’s April 1 Rent Day feature is a points transfer bonus up to 100% to British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus. Since Iberia business class between the U.S. and Europe starts at 34,000 Avios one-way, that means business class across the Pond from 17,000 Bilt points.
200% Bonus On Bilt Transfers To Hilton Coming March 1
Bilt Rewards is back with its Rent Day offers for March 1. The headline here is a Hilton Honors transfer bonus: 150% for general members, and 200% for anyone with Bilt Rewards status. A 200% transfer bonus means 3 Hilton points for every 1 Bilt point transferred.
How Travel Portals Fail: The Brutal Truth Of Botched Reservations, Lost Refunds, And Endless Holds
Bilt Rewards Vice President Richard Kerr wrote up an in-depth explanation of travel portals. Bilt uses Expedia for members who want to redeem their points at 1.25 cents apiece towards paid travel, whether it’s hotel or airfare or other bookings.
American Express, Chase, Citi, and others have travel portals and it’s common to use a third-party ‘white label’ service like this.
Inside Bilt’s Disruptive Play: CEO Ankur Jain Details Tailored Credit Models, 250K Point Rewards & 5–10% Cost Savings For Partners
What Bilt has done is found a way to solve the distribution problem. Card companies pay airlines billions of dollars for help finding customers. Bilt spun up from scratch, created a brand and pipeline for finding customers that partners are interested in reaching. They want to earn Bilt’s points and benefits. And that is worth billions of dollars.
Bilt Rewards’ New Café: Great Coffee—But Did They Miss The Loyalty Play?
Bilt Rewards has opened a cafe on the ground floor of their headquarters. It offers really good coffee and pastries. But this is more of a to go place, there’s no space for lounging, and they don’t have staff to talk to you about their program or credit card. So I’m not sure what the value proposition is?
My First BLADE Helicopter From JFK: Luxury In The Air, Stuck On The Ground, And A Tipping Ask I Didn’t See Coming
I had the chance to try BLADE helicopter transfers in New York for the first time, and it was very cool but it’s not perfect. There are two things that concern me.
TODAY: Up To 100% LifeMiles Transfer Bonus With Bilt
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.
Bilt Earn Triple Points On 1x Spend, Redeem With Up To 100% Bonus At Amazon
Bilt’s monthly Rent Day is back and they have both offers on their traditional timeline (December 1) as well as leading up to it.
Forget Rent Points—Bilt’s New Program Lets You Earn 250,000+ Points Buying A Home
Bilt Rewards has a new program that rewards you with 1 point per $2 spent on the purchase price of a home, for working with a real estate agent they refer you to.
This is all wrapped with first-time homebuying tools like mortgage, down payment, property tax and insurance cost calculators that help educate members. Their tool integrates the affordability calculators with real estate search.