Craig Joseph

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Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways · Bilt to Last? Grading Bilt Rewards Six Months On · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

that are offered on rent day are the best in the business.

You don't find fifty to one hundred and twenty five percent transfer bonuses anywhere else with regularity.

So because of that, again, I've said it before, but built I think is the most valuable rewards program at the moment, hands down.

So one thing I wanna make clear is that you should never speculatively transfer your points from a transferable currency like built to a airline or hotel program.

So just for example, if you don't know what your flight is going to be, if you don't have potential plans, don't ever take advantage of a bonus because you get more miles because by the time that you go to book, there may be no options for using those miles or the prices may be high or

Or it just may not fit into your travel plan.

So always have a plan before you transfer.

Yeah, they seem to have disappeared after that built transfer bonus.

I think so many people took advantage of transferring to Japan Airlines that it ate up all of the business class and first class uh tickets for the next thirteen months or so or whatever the Japan Airlines uh calendar availability is.

Best rewards program out there.

All right.

So in my previous career before I became a travel writer, I was a geologist.

My focus was on environmental issues, primarily water issues.

And so I had clients that were airports and airlines.

So I would go and do water samples and do inspections and that kind of thing.

I was on the tarmac all the time at different airports around the country.

And it's one of those things, you know, have you ever heard of the jungle by Upton St.

Clair?

It's like how the sausage.

Uh sausage.

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