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The Bilt Rewards app just became your favorite tool when booking award flights thanks to its new Point.me feature
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The Point.me feature in the Bilt Rewards app can help you book lie-flat business class seats to Europe with your Bilt points. Taylor Rains/Insider
- Point.me is an award-winning service that helps you to find the best use for your travel rewards.
- Bilt Rewards has integrated the power of Point.me into its proprietary app.
- You can now quickly find the best airline partners for your trip — and then transfer your points — without ever leaving the app.
- Read Insider's guide to the best travel rewards credit cards.
Bilt Rewards is a flexible points program that allows you to do things like offset rent payments, purchase merchandise, shop through Amazon, and (best of all) convert your rewards into airline miles and hotel points. Bilt awards points when you do either of the following:
- Use Bilt to pay your rent (they even waive those expensive service fees)
- Spend with the Bilt Mastercard®
Earning travel rewards is great and all — but figuring out the best ways to use them can take quite a bit of research.
That's why the Bilt Rewards app's latest enhancement is such a big deal. It's partnered up with the award booking service Point.me to make using your rewards much simpler.
We're focused here on the rewards and perks that come with each card. These cards won't be worth it if you're paying interest or late fees. When using a credit card, it's important to pay your balance in full each month, make payments on time, and only spend what you can afford to pay.
The Bilt app and Point.me help you easily find the best value for your rewards
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Chevron iconIt indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.Insider's points and miles valuations estimate that Bilt Rewards are worth an average of 1.65 cents each. This assumes you transfer your points to its travel partners, which include:
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Aer Lingus AerClub
- Air Canada Aeroplan
- British Airways Executive Club
- Cathay Pacific Asia Miles
- Emirates Skywards
- Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles
- Iberia Plus
- IHG Rewards Club
- Air France-KLM Flying Blue
- Turkish Miles & Smiles
- Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
- United Airlines
- World of Hyatt
With a dizzying number of airlines and hotels to choose from, how do you decide what's best for your situation?
Insider has an easy-to-digest beginner's guide to credit card rewards — you should check that out if you want to learn how to find your own deals. But if you'd prefer an automated answer to your question, you can now find it inside the Bilt Rewards app thanks to its integration of the Point.me award booking service.
To use this new feature, here's what you need to do:
- Navigate to the app's "Rewards" page.
- Choose the "Travel" tab.
- Click the "Flights" button.
- Toggle the search screen from "Bilt Travel Portal" to "Transfer Partners."
You now have the capability to search for award flight availability for all Bilt transfer airline partners. Enter your origin and destination and include the cabin you want to fly, and Point.me will quickly find the best deal. You can then transfer your points to the airline with just a few in-app taps.
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A one-year subscription to Point.me normally costs $129. While you may not get all the bells and whistles that come from purchasing a membership outright (for example, you can only see search results for Bilt transfer partners), the fact that you get access to its search results and an extremely smart algorithm is a huge win for Bilt Rewards members.
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Chevron iconIt indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.What to know about the Bilt Rewards app and Point.me
Bilt is working hard to become the hottest flexible points currency out there. It's adding transfer partners all the time. It gives you fun ways to earn bonus points. Its monthly "Rent Day" promotion offers double points (with a limit) during the first day of the month — and sometimes you can answer trivia questions or other activities to earn even more.
With the power of Point.me now living inside the Bilt Rewards app, Bilt's value proposition continues to rise.
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