The start of April is nearly here which means Bilt has released details about its next Rent Day promotions. There’s another good transfer bonus that’ll be available on April 1, as well as an opportunity to get better value from its new partnership with Lyft which is already live.
The Deals
- Avios Transfer Bonus
- Get a bonus when transferring Bilt Rewards points to British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus Avios programs:
- Blue status = 50% bonus
- Silver status = 60% bonus
- Gold status = 75% bonus
- Platinum status = 100% bonus
- Get a bonus when transferring Bilt Rewards points to British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus Avios programs:
- Lyft Redemption Bonus
- Get a bonus when redeeming Bilt Rewards points for Lyft rides:
- Blue & Silver status = 50% bonus
- Gold & Platinum status = 100% bonus
- Get a bonus when redeeming Bilt Rewards points for Lyft rides:
Key Terms
- Avios Transfer Bonus
- Offer valid April 1, 2025 at 12am ET to April 1, 2025 at 11:59pm PT
- Lyft Redemption Bonus
- Offer valid March 26, 2025 at 9am ET to April 1, 2025 at 11:59pm PT
Quick Thoughts
This is the third month in a row that Bilt has offered a transfer bonus which is the longest streak since their rewards program launched a few years ago. Getting a bonus of up to 100% when transferring your points to British Airways, Iberia or Aer Lingus could work out to be a great deal depending on the award pricing and cash cost of the flight(s) you’re interested in booking. Don’t forget that you can transfer to, say, British Airways and then move those over to your Qatar Airways account as well.
The Lyft redemption bonus also gives a chance to get solid – albeit not spectacular – value from your Bilt points. Bilt launched a partnership with Lyft a couple of weeks ago, but the offering was in no way compelling as you’d be redeeming your Bilt points at a 0.7 cents per point rate which is very poor. The redemption bonus isn’t going to be worth it at the Blue or Silver levels seeing as you’d still only get 1.05 cents per point of value, but Gold and Platinum members will get a 100% boost, thereby taking the value to 1.4 cents per point. That’s good, but still not recommendable considering you can get better value than that by transferring your points to travel partners, particularly during a transfer bonus where Gold and Platinum members can transfer at elevated rates.
Note that the Avios transfer bonus and Lyft redemption bonuses have different offer dates. The Avios bonus is only valid on April 1, while the Lyft bonus is already live and will be valid through the end of April 1.
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As a long-term speculative play, what is the expiration policy, if any, for Avios transfers? Relatedly, would a transfer now extend the expiration date of Avios in any or each airline program using Avios?
I did the November transfer at 100%. We got 2 roundtrip flights on Iberia business class out of Boston on the new A321-XLR, seats looks great. Tempted to do another transfer… maybe try Air Lingus?
You might want to first research Aer Lingus award inventory. Just a word of caution.
Air France or Emirates please.
They just did Avios, right? That was the individualized bonus?
We don’t have a record of Bilt ever offering a transfer bonus to Avios programs.
It was November 1. VFTW had an article about it. The bonuses were targeted, and not necessarily based on elite status.
I was targeted for 100 % on November 1. Wiped out my Bilt account with a transfer to BA.
My household has three platinums and not one got the november avios offer…