The February 1, 2025 Bilt Rewards Rent Day promotion is out, and top-tier Bilt Platinum members will get a 100% transfer bonus when transferring Bitl Rewards points to Avianca LifeMiles, which is an excellent deal. As has been the case for a while now, the transfer bonus is tiered based on your Bilt elite status, with the transfer bonus ranging from 20% for “Bilt Blue” members (no status) to the big 100% bonus for Platinum members.
The Deal
- Bilt Rewards will be offering a tiered transfer bonus when members transfer Bilt Rewards points to Avianca LifeMiles On February 1st, 2025 from 12:00am ET until February 1st 2025, 11:59pm PT in the Bilt Rewards app or website, as follows:
- Bilt Platinum Members: 100% transfer bonus
- Bilt Gold Members: 50% transfer bonus
- Bilt Silver Members: 40% transfer bonus
- Bilt Blue Members: 20% transfer bonus
Key Terms
- Valid February 1st, 2025 at 12:00am ET until February 1st 2025, 11:59pm PT in the Bilt Rewards app or website
- Points must be transferred in increments of 1,000 points
- Bilt Blue Members must transfer a minimum of 2,000 points
Quick Thoughts
At the base level, this is a pretty standard 20% transfer bonus — we see transfer bonuses to LifeMiles from other partners a couple of times each year and those transfer bonuses are ordinarily in the same range (+/- 5%). For base Blue-level members, this is obviously worth considering if you have an imminent award to book, but it isn’t enough that I’d want to make a speculative transfer.
Silver, Gold, and Platinum members all get a transfer bonus that is well beyond the best we’ve seen from any other transferable points program to Avianca LifeMiles. If you’ve got Platinum status, this might be one of those rare instances where it makes sense to consider a speculative transfer. Avianca LifeMiles has solid award chart values.
Furthermore, if you stack with a LifeMiles+ subscription (which starts at $20 per month with a minimum 6-month commitment), you could get 10% off of those awards. If you buy the next subscription up from the “Lite” one, you also get a much more favorable change and cancellation policy on award tickets (more details about LifeMiles+ here).
Keep in mind that Avianca sometimes sells miles for ~1.25-1.3c per mile, so by that measure a 100% transfer bonus is getting the equivalent value of about 2.5-2.6c per Bilt Rewards point, which is excellent. For Blue, Silver, and Gold members, the value isn’t stellar if you’re comparing to the cash price of miles when on sale. That said, sales often require the purchase of a lot of miles in order to get the best rate. If you need a redemption near-term and don’t want to splash out the cash to buy miles on sale, I could see this bonus being a determining factor in terms of which points you transfer to Avianca LifeMiles — but don’t forget that this bonus is in effect one-day-only on February 1st.
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I used LF a lot since they new car came out but with so many promotions, I rather wait for another Alaska/Virgin/FB promotion. If not, well Hyatt is always an excellent use of my BP.
I suppose Bilt can better afford these transfer bonuses now that that they have so few Platinum or Gold elite remembers.
Air France or Emirates please.
No longer useful to book LH F… but with 100% bonus – maybe.
IMO, if you’re going to speculatively acquire LifeMiles, unless you’re Bilt Rewards platinum, you might as well wait for one of its bigger promotional sales (160-165% purchase bonuses are routine, but we’ve seen these bonuses reach above 180%, or even 200% in recent past).