Summary Bilt Rewards offers a variety of transfer partners, like British Airways and United MilagePlus, for using points on travel rewards. Hawaiian Airlines was recently dropped as a transfer partner, but Alaska Airlines has joined the list for Bilt Rewards members to utilize. Bilt Rewards members can now earn points not only from rent, but also everyday purchases with the Bilt World Elite Mastercard.
We thought it was too good to be true: to be able to accrue travel rewards from paying our monthly rent . And even though services like Bilt Rewards do make it possible, customers will have to say “aloha” to one key transfer partner. Bilt Rewards has a long list of transfer partners, which allows customers to use points for airline tickets and hotel stays.
Some transfer partners of note include British Airways, United MilagePlus and World of Hyatt. Earlier this year, however, one key partner, American Airlines, was dropped. And while Hawaiian Airlines' HawaiianMiles was also once a prominent partner, it no longer has a space on the list, as of earlier this month.
Richard Kerr, Bilt Rewards’ vice president of travel, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to announce the retirement of Hawaiian Airlines as a transfer partner on Aug. 20, 2024. “As our original 3-year agreement came to a close with HA, we were confident as reported this morning that the merger with AS would be approved,” the tweet reads.
“Given we are the only transfer partner Alaska has at a 1:1 ratio, .