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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 ...