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One of the easiest and sure shot way of getting good value from your Amex Membership reward points is to use them for paying travel on AmexTravel.com . Normally, you would get about 1c value for each Membership reward point when you use them to pay for travel at AmexTravel.com. But if you have a Business Platinum card in your folio, you can benefit from a little-known feature to get even more value for your points. Amex 35% Airline Bonus. Images courtesy Amex. The feature is called '35% Airline Bonus,' through which get 35% of your used points back and using it you can get 1.53 cent value per point. That is even better than the Chase Sapphire Reserve pay with points feature and can be better than transferring points to an airline to book the flight as an award on many occasions. Without this feature, you can book a $100 flight for 10,000 Amex points but with the feature, the same flight will cost you only 6,500 points. That is much lower than paying, say an award price of 12,50

Along with an exciting opportunity to earn Alaska MVP status , Bilt is also running a transfer bonus to Alaska Airlines this rent day on July 1. You can earn up to 100% transfer bonus on up to 50,000 Bilt points, based on your Bilt Status as below: Bilt Platinum members will earn 100% bonus Bilt Gold members will earn 75% bonus Bilt Silver members will earn 50% bonus Bilt Blue members will earn 25% bonus Do note the limit on the bonus this time around. The transfer is only good for up to 50,000 points transferred. Any transfers beyond that amount will not earn the bonus. This is the first time I have seen a limit on the transfer bonus. Bilt to Alaska Air Transfer Bonus. Image courtesy of Bilt. This is the first transfer bonus since Bilt's March Rent day transfer bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan and first such transfer to a US domestic airline. There are many great uses of Alaska points. Alaska runs regular promotions for one way award cost of 4,500 miles on many short routes. Seattle t

Bilt is out with an exciting Rent Day promo this month, where you can earn Alaska MVP or Alaska MVP Gold Status based on your Bilt status. If you have Gold or Platinum status with Bilt, you can transfer 10,000 Bilt points to activate this offer starting June 24th. If you have Gold status with Bilt, you will match to Alaska MVP status and if you are Bilt Platinum, you will match to Alaska MVP Gold. The great part is that you also receive 10,000 Alaska miles as part of the offer, so the status comes almost free. Mind you, Bilt is also running a transfer bonus of up to 100% to Alaska on July 1, but this status match transfer will not be eligible for that bonus if you decide to wait until then. You can also make use of this offer even if you have earlier done a status match to Alaska. With Alaska elite status , you become eligible for bonus earnings on flights, first class upgrade eligibility, free checked bags for you and your companions, priority boarding, preferred seating, among other

Citi has as new offer out for its American Airlines' AAdvantage Business card which is currently being sent by mail. The offer is for 80,000 AAdvantage bonus miles after spending $5,000 in first 5 months of account opening. This appears to be the highest ever offer for the card and also waives the annual fee for the first year. You also get a generous time of 5 months to finish the expenses. Offer Details: 80,000 AAdvantage bonus miles after $5000 spend in 5 months $99 annual fee waived for first year 2x on American Airlines, Car Rentals, Gas stations, Cable, Satellite and Telecommunications merchants, 1x else where Earn 1 Loyalty Points per dollar spent American miles currently hold the most value among the big four US airlines. For e.g. you can fly from US to Asia for 70K miles in business class with less than $100 in taxes, and you can fly to Europe for 22,500 miles in Economy with few taxes. The offer lists an end date of 6/15/24 so definitely be on the lookout for it if you wi

Staples is running its fee free gift card offer on Mastercard gift cards this time. The deal lasts from Sunday 2/25/24 until Saturday 3/2/24. You can earn 5x on Chase Ink Cash credit card at Staples or receive $20 cashback when putting $20 or more on your Amex Business Gold credit card. Find more Staples deals in their weekly ad .

Bank of America is offering 2% extra cashback on all of its branded credit cards, today only. The offer is for both points and cashback cards, so you can earn 2x extra miles on co-branded airlines credit cards as well. Earn extra cashback 11/09.  Image courtesy Bank of America. There is a limit of $2500 spend per card. Some of the cards where you can earn extra cashback today are: C ustomized Cash Rewards Unlimited Cash Rewards Travel Rewards Premium Rewards® Premium Rewards® Elite Virgin Atlantic Alaska Airlines Air France KLM and their business counterparts. You can take advantage of this promotion by prepaying some of your utility or business expenses. You can also prepay your taxes or buy gift cards if the fee is lower than the total rewards you will earn. For example, with the Unlimited Cash Rewards, you can earn anywhere from 3.5% to 4.625% today depending on your status with Bank of America, so if the tax processor charges 1.87% or gift card sellers charges 2.4%, you will come