Editor’s Note: TPG founder Brian Kelly is a Bilt advisor and investor.
The Bilt Reward recently announced it November Rental Day Promotion. In addition to SoulCycle benefits and double points for cardholders on November 1, Bilt also offers a United Airlines Premier Status challenge.
Even if you’re not currently a Bilt Rewards member or a Bilt Mastercard cardholder, you can use the November Rent Day promotion to unlock United status. But you’ll have to act fast: Registration starts today and ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on November 1, 2022.
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Some background information about Premier status challenge
Through November 1, Bilt Rewards members can unlock 120 days of Premium Silver or Premium Gold status, with the option to extend until 2023.
Your Premier status challenge will depend on your Bilt status level:
- Bilt Blue tier (not required): Silver Premier.
- Bilt Silver, Gold and Platinum tiers: Gold Premier.
As a reminder, Bilt Silver, Gold and Platinum require a total of 25,000, 50,000 and 100,000 points respectively to qualify each year. You can earn these points when you pay your rent in Bilt or use your Bilt Mastercard; Every point you earn with Bilt is a point for status.
Premier Silver benefits include perks like a 40% mileage bonus on paid tickets, a free 70-pound check-in bag for you and a traveling companion on the same booking, the ability to book a seat Economy Plus class within 24 hours of your departure (for you and one traveling companion) and free space Free Premier Upgrade can be deleted within 24 hours of departure.
Premier Gold includes benefits such as a 60% bonus on premium tickets, two free 70-pound check-in bags for you and one companion on the same booking, access to Economy Plus seats at the time of your booking. booking point (for you and one traveling companion), 48 -Priority upgrade hours on most flights, Group 1 boarding and Star Alliance Gold Status.
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Your Premier status will be valid for 120 days. To extend your status to January 31, 2024, you need to earn the following before your free status expires:
- Silver Premier: 1,000 Premier-eligible points and 4 Premier-eligible flights.
- Premier Gold: 2,000 PQP and 6 PQF.
In short, you earn 1 PQP per $1 spent with United and 1 PQF per segment flight. To maintain Premium Silver status through next January, you must spend $1,000 (before tax) on at least four qualifying United flights.
For more information, refer to this guideincludes some examples of how you can quickly earn PQP and PQF before the end of the year.
Related: What is United Airlines’ elite status worth?
How do I sign up for the status challenge?
Here’s how to sign up for the Bilt’s United position challenge. As mentioned, signing up for Bilt Rewards is completely free and you don’t need to sign up for a Bilt Mastercard to join the challenge.
If you already have a Bilt Rewards account, skip to step four.
Step 1: Sign up for Bilt Rewards
Go biltrewards.com and select “register/login” in the top right corner.
Step 2: Fill in the requested information
Now, follow the on-screen prompts and fill out the registration form. You will come to a page where the “Sign up for Bilt Mastercard” box will be ticked. Since the United status challenge doesn’t require you to have a Mastercard Bilt Card, you can uncheck this box if you don’t want to open the card.
Step 3: Download the Bilt Rewards App
Once registered, you will automatically become a member of Bilt Blue and you can download the app to continue.
Step 4: Select ‘Unlock United Airlines Premier Status’ from the Bilt . app
After you log into your Bilt account on the app, select “learn more” in the “Unlock United Airlines Premier status” box.
Step 5: Link your Bilt Rewards and MileagePlus account
Next, you will be invited to link your United MileagePlus account to Bilt Rewards. You will need to enter your last name, first name and MileagePlus number. Interestingly, your MileagePlus password is optional.
Step 6: Register for challenge status
Now that you’ve linked your MileagePlus account to Bilt, you can return to the app’s homepage and sign up for the status challenge. You must agree to the terms and conditions, then select “Sign up for the Premier Challenge”. According to the app, it can take up to three weeks from November 1 for your MileagePlus status challenge to begin.
Key point
It’s great to see Bilt Rewards continuing its Monthly Rent Day promotion with great deals.
This time around, the startup is offering free status matches to all Bilt Rewards members, up to Premier Gold. If you are not yet a Bilt member, you can sign up for free and enjoy Premier Silver status by linking your United account with Bilt.
