{"id":11806,"date":"2025-05-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:45:38","slug":"wednesday-wisdom-seasoning-matters-in-loyalty-programs-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/wednesday-wisdom-seasoning-matters-in-loyalty-programs-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wisdom: Seasoning Matters in Loyalty Programs too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bilt, a company best known (according to me) for inadvertently advertising how to abuse their program<\/a> just weeks after sending a “you’re shutdown” email followed by a “j\/k j\/k” email<\/a> to a bunch of cardholders, added Japan Airlines Milage Bank as a 1:1 transfer partner yesterday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landing page for the linking your Bilt and JAL accounts<\/a> includes the language:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“If your JAL Mileage Bank account is less than 60 days old, there will be up to a 7 day hold before you can use JAL miles to book travel.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that Bilt is inadvertently teaching us another lesson, which is that unseasoned accounts can often cause you to be unable to use your miles until your account is old enough or until you jump through hoops like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n