Ever since launching a few years ago, Bilt has steadily added more and more transfer partners. They’ve announced today that they now have a new partner: Spirit Airlines.
Transfers will be conducted on a 1:1 basis, with a minimum transfer of 1,000 Bilt points, and should transfer over pretty much instantly. Spirit doesn’t have a somewhat fixed value for its points like Southwest and JetBlue do, but their points generally seem to be redeemable in the 1.1-1.5 cents per point range. That makes transfers to Spirit an OK value proposition, but not amazing seeing as you can get significantly better value with other transfer partners, especially whenever there’s a transfer bonus on Rent Day (i.e. the first day of the month).
I certainly wouldn’t transfer points to Spirit speculatively. Although Bilt has pointed to the fact that Spirit has just gotten (limited) additional funding, the airline is still in severe financial difficulty and many in the business expect the airline to fail in the coming weeks/months. If you need to book last minute travel, a transfer to Spirit might be worth it. Other than that though, this is a transfer partner I’d personally give a wide berth in its current state. Given the Mesa/Omni debacle though, even in the worst case scenario the Bilt/Spirit linkup shouldn’t end up being the shortest lived transfer partnership of 2025.
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Just 52 days until BILT 2.0 … the ‘beginning of the end’ after WF (the ‘too big to fail’ bank backer) exits. Tick tock…
Do you know something that Ken Chenault doesn’t?
Sheesh, why not mention ‘beloved’ NFL Commissioner and other BILT board member Roger Goodell… or he still recovering from CTE and Deflategate?
Get real… unless Ken is gonna get his former company (Amex) to foot the bill for Ankur, BILT in for struggle. So, Tom, do you think Amex is dumber than Wells?
Coming soon to Bilt, Frontier (via its takeover of Spirit)!