Bilt Rewards and Point.me are two helpful packages that entered the award journey area inside the previous couple of years. Bilt Rewards is the reward program of the Bilt Mastercard®, which helps you to earn factors paying hire. Meanwhile, Point.me aggregates award searches from many airline loyalty packages into one record of outcomes.
You can sync your loyalty accounts with Point.me to get ideas for utilizing your present factors and miles to e-book award flights. Point.me has lengthy supported main transferable currencies, resembling Chase Ultimate Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards, however not Bilt Rewards — till this yr.
Earlier this month, Point.me added help for looking out Bilt Rewards and its switch companions. And Wednesday, Bilt introduced a brand new integration with Point.me. Here’s what it’s essential to know.
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Use Point.me within the Bilt app
Bilt members can now take pleasure in what Bilt calls “the Bilt Transfer Partners expertise” by utilizing a Point.me-powered search within the Bilt app. Now you’ll be able to see real-time award availability for all of the airline packages to which you’ll be able to switch Bilt factors. In specific, you will see availability for:
To seek for award flights with these companions, log in to your Bilt Rewards app and navigate to the “Rewards” display. Select the “Travel” tab, faucet on “Flights” after which “Transfer Partners.” You’ll see a display on which you’ll be able to enter your origin, vacation spot, departure date, return date (if desired), variety of passengers and desired cabin class.
Once you faucet “Search,” you will get a display with outcomes.
If you discover an award flight you need to e-book, you’ll be able to switch Bilt factors to the award program of your alternative from inside the Bilt app.
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Bilt members can proceed to make use of the Point.me web site as ordinary (with the addition of Bilt Rewards as a switch companion) after subscribing to a Point.me plan or shopping for a day cross. And the advantage of doing so will probably be that you’re going to additionally see outcomes from packages that are not Bilt switch companions. But now Bilt members need not pay for a Point.me day cross or subscription in the event that they solely need to search throughout the airline loyalty packages that companion with Bilt Rewards.
Only lively Bilt members can use the built-in Point.me award search within the Bilt Rewards app. I’m not an lively member, as I do not pay hire and have not seen a cause so as to add the Bilt Mastercard to my pockets. So, I couldn’t see any outcomes after downloading the Bilt Rewards app, creating an account and trying a search question.
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Since this put up is about Bilt, I ought to point out that some Bilt members have just lately skilled fraudulent expenses on their Bilt Mastercard. Credit card fraud is not unusual, however one TPG staffer reported, “Everyone I do know with the cardboard has had a problem, each inside and out of doors the award journey world.” In an announcement to Frequent Miler, Bilt Rewards famous that is the results of “BIN assaults” whereby randomly generated card numbers are used to make fraudulent purchases.
I would not let this bank card fraud hold me from signing up for a Bilt Mastercard if I felt it was the proper card for me. Again, fraudulent expenses are comparatively frequent, although we’re unsure how widespread the Bilt assault is. So lengthy as you control your account transactions and carry a number of playing cards, the latest fraud points must be a minor inconvenience.
Regardless, you probably have a Bilt Mastercard in your pockets, hold extra-close watch over your account and report any fraudulent transactions as quickly as you see them.
Related: Credit card fraud vs. id theft — easy methods to know the distinction
Bottom line
It’s nice to see this new Point.me and Bilt Rewards integration. Point.me is a wonderful useful resource for award vacationers, because it makes award journey simpler to go looking and e-book no matter your factors and miles information.
Of course, you will need to verify all of your redemption choices earlier than transferring Bilt Rewards factors to an airline companion. In some circumstances, you could discover that redeeming Bilt Rewards factors for journey by way of the Bilt Rewards journey portal offers higher worth. When you e-book journey by way of the portal, you will get a redemption worth of 1.25 cents per level. It’s additionally value contemplating the worth of non-airline Bilt Rewards switch companions, resembling World of Hyatt, the place it’s normal to get 2 or extra cents per level in worth on lodge stays.