199. Transferable Points Power Rankings: Comparing the 5 Major Points Programs

All right.

So we, I will kick it off with best transfer partners.

Okay? Number one, you may not have seen this coming, or maybe you have based on what we've been saying recently.

[laughs]

Our number one for best transfer partners is Bilt Rewards.

They currently have 24 transfer partners, 17 airlines, seven hotels.

I feel like they update their transfer partners the most out of any of these banks.

Like, they're constantly, I feel like, adding new transfer partners.

Well, and I'm interested to know, like, how do they get all these partners? Because some of them-

I don't know

... it's like, for example, like Chase, it makes sense that they're the only ones with United because Chase issues a United card, or Citi with AA because Citi issues the AA co-branded cards.

But Bilt doesn't have that same, they don't have co-branded cards.

You know? They're just a rewards program.

So it's just, they're, I don't know if that maybe makes it so they have this flexibility where they're not a bank, but it's just interesting.

Yeah.

It's really interest- very interesting that it's our top one.

I would never have thought, even six months ago, that we'd be saying that.

So Bilt is the only program that transfers to Atmos Rewards, which is the loyalty program of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.

They are the only program that transfers to Japan Airlines and Emirates one to one.

They are the only one, not the only one.

Okay, so they still transfer to Hyatt one to one.

With Chase, things are getting a little trickier.

So if you have the Sapphire Reserve personal or business, you can still transfer one to one, but starting October 1st, if you have the Sapphire Preferred or the Ink Preferred, the, that transfer is moving to four to three to Hyatt.

So I like that Bilt still transfers one to one to Hyatt, no matter which card you have, or even if you don't have cards, you're just earning Bilt points, um, you can still transfer one to one to Hyatt.

Not all of their h- of their hotel partners are one to one, but most of them are.

All right.

So we, I will kick it off with best transfer partners.

Okay? Number one, you may not have seen this coming, or maybe you have based on what we've been saying recently.

[laughs]

Our number one for best transfer partners is Bilt Rewards.

They currently have 24 transfer partners, 17 airlines, seven hotels.

I feel like they update their transfer partners the most out of any of these banks.

Like, they're constantly, I feel like, adding new transfer partners.

Well, and I'm interested to know, like, how do they get all these partners? Because some of them-

I don't know

... it's like, for example, like Chase, it makes sense that they're the only ones with United because Chase issues a United card, or Citi with AA because Citi issues the AA co-branded cards.

But Bilt doesn't have that same, they don't have co-branded cards.

You know? They're just a rewards program.

So it's just, they're, I don't know if that maybe makes it so they have this flexibility where they're not a bank, but it's just interesting.

Yeah.

It's really interest- very interesting that it's our top one.

I would never have thought, even six months ago, that we'd be saying that.

So Bilt is the only program that transfers to Atmos Rewards, which is the loyalty program of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines.

They are the only program that transfers to Japan Airlines and Emirates one to one.

They are the only one, not the only one.

Okay, so they still transfer to Hyatt one to one.

With Chase, things are getting a little trickier.

So if you have the Sapphire Reserve personal or business, you can still transfer one to one, but starting October 1st, if you have the Sapphire Preferred or the Ink Preferred, the, that transfer is moving to four to three to Hyatt.

So I like that Bilt still transfers one to one to Hyatt, no matter which card you have, or even if you don't have cards, you're just earning Bilt points, um, you can still transfer one to one to Hyatt.

Not all of their h- of their hotel partners are one to one, but most of them are.