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The Offer
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- Bilt Rewards (free to join) is offering free United status for 120 days thru November 1st and you can keep status through January 2024 by completing the challenge. If you don’t have status with Bilt you’ll receive Silver status and if you do you’ll receive Gold status
- Silver status: Earn 1000 Premier Qualifying Points and take 4 qualifying United flights
- Gold status: Earn 2000 Premier Qualifying Points and take 6 qualifying United flights
Our Verdict
Low level status, but free is free.
Hat tip to VFTW
Anyone got the match after Feb 28? Pretty sure met all requirements but still downgrade to member on March 1. Never mind upgraded to silver in the evening
4. Complimentary Premier Silver status will be effective for 120 days starting from November 1,
2022. (“Challenge Period”)
6. To earn Premier Silver status and the associated benefits after the Challenge Period,
members must meet the following “Qualifying Travel Requirements” during the Challenge
Period:
Earn at least 1,000 Premier qualifying points (PQP) and 4 Premier qualifying flights
(PQF) on flights operated by United or United Express.
7. All travel must be completed within the Challenge Period and no later than February 28,
2023.
8. Members who meet the Qualifying Travel Requirements prior to July 1, 2023, will earn
Premier Silver status that will be valid through January 31, 2024, and members who meet
the Qualifying Travel Requirements on or after July 1, 2023, will earn Premier Silver status
that will be valid through January 31, 2025.
I’m confused. I believe the Challenge Period is from 11/1/2022 to 2/28/2023. What does #8 above mean? We can obtain the Premier Silver state by meeting this lower than usual requirement “Earn at least 1,000 Premier qualifying points (PQP) and 4 Premier qualifying flights (PQF) on flights operated by United or United Express.” even AFTER the Challenge Period??
#8 is boilerplate language for all United status matches, regardless of which affiliate is offering the match. It is absolutely misleading as hell and also not relevant to this particular status match promo.
Had Bilt offered this status match in May, you’d have 1.5 years of Silver/Gold instead of just 1 year minus however long it took for you to meet challenge requirements.
Status still valid despite it being past 12/31. Took one flight before then so not sure why.
Watch that your PQP for paid upgrades are posting. United’s system is having issues the last month or two with failing to post E+ PQPs.
I still never got my status upgrade
Has anyone had any problems with points posting this month? Everything was fine in October and suddenly I’m not seeing Rent points or transaction posts.
Still waiting on approval.
Ditto, obviously the BILT terms regarding 5-7 business days for the status were complete garbage.
It appears we’re in the normal manual review line at UA that says 3 weeks but FT reports in actuality matches are taking even longer than that recently.
Got approved!
OMG I just did too! No email showing in the app!
I was also approved yesterday. Originally signed up on the 29th. And I am flying United a week from Saturday, so fingers crossed I get an upgrade!
So I signed up yesterday for the challenge and am flying United on Friday. The flight should count even if they have not yet approved my enrollment, right? But it also sounds unlikely that it will be approved by then to be able to take advantage of any benefits… Thoughts?
If we become silver and book United via Turkish, will we still get our Silver status benefits and upgrade to economy plus if we book basic economy via Turkish?
I signed up and it says we have to wait 3 weeks to get the status match going, does that mean we won’t get silver status until we hear from them in about 3 weeks? Does it also mean that any flying we do before we hear from them in 3 weeks won’t count toward that status challenge?
Digging into the offer details at https://www.biltrewards.com/terms/rent-day-november
Point 3 says status will be awarded 5-7 biz days after you register in the Bilt app
Point 4 says the challenge period starts Nov 1
Point 7 says all travel must be completed no later than Mar 1
Nov 1 – Mar 1 is 120 days so it appears even though we don’t have status yet our challenges are underway.