When you have been unimpressed by Capital One’s poor switch ratio for its latest companion, JetBlue TrueBlue, it is time to take one other look. Capital One is providing a one-time switch bonus of 5,000 TrueBlue factors, as first reported by Frequent Miler.
Capital One’s switch ratio for JetBlue is a less-than-ideal 5:3, which means each 1,000 Capital One miles you switch offers you solely 600 TrueBlue factors. In lots of instances, you’d use considerably fewer Capital One miles by reserving a JetBlue flight with money and redeeming your miles to cowl the acquisition at a charge of 1 cent apiece.
However now, Capital One has launched a switch bonus that may give you an additional 5,000 TrueBlue factors upon your first switch. You have to switch a minimal of 1,000 miles in increments of 100 miles.
This implies you may switch the minimal 1,000 Capital One miles to JetBlue and are available out with 5,600 TrueBlue factors — a wonderful switch ratio of 1:5.6. When you switch 10,000 Capital One miles, you will get a complete of 11,000 TrueBlue factors — barely higher than a 1:1 ratio.
It is a one-time bonus. So, after you employ it, you will be again to the standard disappointing 5:3 ratio. However when you’ve got a particular JetBlue redemption in thoughts, this might be an ideal alternative to switch the factors you want.
Or, when you additionally accumulate one other foreign money that transfers to JetBlue at a greater ratio, you are in all probability higher off utilizing a mix of rewards. Chase Final Rewards factors and Citi ThankYou Rewards factors switch to JetBlue at a 1:1 ratio, whereas American Categorical Membership Rewards factors switch to JetBlue at a ratio of 5:4. You can switch 1,000 Capital One miles to TrueBlue to snag the 5,000 bonus TrueBlue factors, then switch the remainder of the factors you want from Chase, Citi or Amex at a greater ratio.
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JetBlue redemptions begin at 700 TrueBlue factors, so this switch bonus alone might be sufficient to get you to and out of your subsequent trip. This provide does not have a broadcast finish date and will disappear at any time, so begin interested by your journey plans to resolve if you wish to benefit from it.
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