Bilt Rewards and Level.me are two helpful applications that entered the award journey area inside the previous few years. Bilt Rewards is the reward program of the Bilt Mastercard®, which helps you to earn factors paying lease. In the meantime, Level.me aggregates award searches from many airline loyalty applications into one checklist of outcomes.

You possibly can sync your loyalty accounts with Level.me to get strategies for utilizing your current factors and miles to e-book award flights. Level.me has lengthy supported main transferable currencies, equivalent to Chase Final Rewards and American Categorical Membership Rewards, however not Bilt Rewards — till this 12 months.

Earlier this month, Level.me added assist for looking Bilt Rewards and its switch companions. And Wednesday, Bilt introduced a brand new integration with Level.me. Here is what you must know.

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Use Level.me within the Bilt app

Bilt members can now take pleasure in what Bilt calls “the Bilt Switch Companions expertise” by utilizing a Level.me-powered search within the Bilt app. Now you possibly can see real-time award availability for all of the airline applications to which you’ll be able to switch Bilt factors. Particularly, you will see availability for:

To seek for award flights with these companions, log in to your Bilt Rewards app and navigate to the “Rewards” display. Choose the “Journey” tab, faucet on “Flights” after which “Switch Companions.” You will see a display on which you’ll be able to enter your origin, vacation spot, departure date, return date (if desired), variety of passengers and desired cabin class.

When you faucet “Search,” you will get a display with outcomes.

Should you discover an award flight you need to e-book, you possibly can switch Bilt factors to the award program of your alternative from inside the Bilt app.

Bilt members can proceed to make use of the Level.me web site as common (with the addition of Bilt Rewards as a switch accomplice) after subscribing to a Level.me plan or shopping for a day cross. And the good thing about doing so will probably be that you will additionally see outcomes from applications that are not Bilt switch companions. However now Bilt members needn’t pay for a Level.me day cross or subscription in the event that they solely need to search throughout the airline loyalty applications that accomplice with Bilt Rewards.

Solely energetic Bilt members can use the built-in Level.me award search within the Bilt Rewards app. I am not an energetic member, as I do not pay lease and have not seen a purpose so as to add the Bilt Mastercard to my pockets. So, I couldn’t see any outcomes after downloading the Bilt Rewards app, creating an account and trying a search question.

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Since this submit is about Bilt, I ought to point out that some Bilt members have just lately skilled fraudulent fees on their Bilt Mastercard. Bank card fraud is not unusual, however one TPG staffer reported, “Everybody I do know with the cardboard has had a difficulty, each inside and out of doors the award journey world.” In a press release to Frequent Miler, Bilt Rewards famous that is the results of “BIN assaults” whereby randomly generated card numbers are used to make fraudulent purchases.

I would not let this bank card fraud maintain me from signing up for a Bilt Mastercard if I felt it was the precise card for me. Once more, fraudulent fees are comparatively frequent, although we’re undecided how widespread the Bilt assault is. As long as you regulate your account transactions and carry a number of playing cards, the latest fraud points ought to be a minor inconvenience.

Regardless, if in case you have a Bilt Mastercard in your pockets, maintain extra-close watch over your account and report any fraudulent transactions as quickly as you see them.

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After all, you will need to verify all of your redemption choices earlier than transferring Bilt Rewards factors to an airline accomplice. In some instances, chances are you’ll discover that redeeming Bilt Rewards factors for journey by the Bilt Rewards journey portal supplies higher worth. Once you e-book journey by the portal, you will get a redemption worth of 1.25 cents per level. It is also price contemplating the worth of non-airline Bilt Rewards switch companions, equivalent to World of Hyatt, the place it is common to get 2 or extra cents per level in worth on lodge stays.