Business-class sweet spots with points

👋🏼 Good morning and welcome back to Daily Drop — the Gordon Ramsay of newsletters: brutally honest, occasionally unhinged, but here to make sure you don’t ruin the sauce (a.k.a. your points).

This is a good one, folks:

• 🎁 Daily Drop Pro Labor Day sale (and a free gift)

• ✈️ Business-class sweet spots with points

• 😮 40-100% transfer bonus to Virgin

• 🛋️ Lounge win: free points consulting (a.k.a. us)

• 💳 Current Transfer Bonuses

🎁 Daily Drop Pro Labor Day sale (and a free gift)

Yesterday, I showed you how to book a nonstop flight from New York (JFK) to Frankfurt (FRA) for just 19,000 JetBlue points — less than half of what Delta or United were charging.

How did I find that deal? With Daily Drop Pro.

Our award search and alert tool is built to surface these hidden gems, so you don’t have to dig through dozens of airline sites hoping to stumble across them.

And for Labor Day, you can join Pro for less:

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• ✅ No code needed — just sign up before September 2

The sale kicks off today, and with only 300 spots available, it won’t last long. 😉

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✈️ Business-class sweet spots with points

If you’ve ever seen someone sipping champagne in a lie-flat seat and thought, “Must be nice,” we’ve got good news — it can be you. 😎

Here are three of the best sweet spots for flying business class, and how you can easily book without breaking the bank.

🥂 Qatar Qsuites for 70,000 points

Qatar’s Qsuites are consistently ranked among the best business-class products in the world — think fully enclosed suites and dine-on-demand meals at 40,000 feet.

Here’s an example if you’re traveling from the U.S.

• Route: Chicago (ORD) → Doha (DOH)

• Points price: 70,000 Avios (plus $100 in taxes)

• Cash price: $10,000

• How to book: Transfer points to Qatar Airways (or any Avios program like British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, or Finnair since all programs can freely pool points)

The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card is currently offering 75,000 Chase points after spending $5,000 in three months from account opening — enough to book this flight with points to spare, all for a $95 annual fee.

That means your $95 can get you into a bucket-list, $10,000 flights across the world. Not too shabby.

🇬🇧 Fly to London in business class for just 29,000 points

This isn’t a typo — it’s one of the most underrated sweet spots in the game.

Here’s the lowdown:

• Route: New York (JFK) → London (LHR)

• Points price: 29,000 Virgin miles on off-peak dates

• Cash price: $2,000 to $3,500

• How to book: Transfer points to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club

The Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card currently has a welcome offer of 75,000 miles after spending $4,000 in three months from account opening, which is enough for a round-trip in business class — with points left over.

🌺 United business class to Hawaii for 15,000 miles

This sweet spot feels too good to be true — but it works.

If you transfer points to Turkish Airlines, you can log into your Turkish Miles & Smiles account and use those miles to book domestic flights on United Airlines for great value:

• Example: Boston (BOS) → Honolulu (HNL), or similar long-haul U.S. domestic flights

• Points price Cost: 15,000 Turkish Miles&Smiles in business

• Cash price: $1,200+ in business

• How to book: Transfer points to Turkish, then book United-operated flights directly on the Turkish website

For context, United would typically charge 40,000+ miles for the same flight in business.

Remember that 75,000-mile welcome offer from the Venture Card? That could book you five domestic business-class flights like this!

Bottom line

You don’t need to fly a lot to fly well.

With cards like the Sapphire Preferred and the Venture Card, you can unlock some of the most luxurious flights in the world — using points earned from the spending you already do every day.

And once you know the sweet spots (like these), the value becomes undeniable.

We have an entire page dedicated to the best cards that earn transferable points, so you can stop sitting in the back of the plane. 😎

😮 40-100% transfer bonus to Virgin

Bilt Rewards is back with another Rent Day promo, and this one could be a monster.

On September 1st only, Bilt is offering a transfer bonus to Virgin Red. Officially, it’s “up to” 100%… but here’s the catch: it’s targeted. We have no clue who gets the bigger offers or why. 🤷🏼‍♂️

So let’s play it safe and assume you’ll see the baseline 40% bonus. Even then, the value is wild.

Let’s take the example I used in the previous section:

• ✈️ U.S. → Europe on Virgin Atlantic economy: 6,000 miles → just 4,300 Bilt points after bonus

• 🍷 U.S. → Europe in Virgin Atlantic Upper Class: 29,000 miles → just 21,000 Bilt points

If you happen to be targeted for more than 40%? Well, then this crazy deal gets even crazier.

How it works

Bilt Rewards transfers to Virgin Red, the umbrella loyalty program across Virgin brands.

To book flights, you just link your Virgin Red and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club accounts, then move points between them instantly and freely.

This bonus runs September 1 only, from 12:00 am ET through 11:59 pm PT — basically a one-day window to squeeze every ounce of value out of your Bilt points, so don’t miss it!

🛋️ Lounge win: free points consulting (a.k.a. us)

Every week, our Daily Drop Lounge community is full of wins, tips, and the occasional chef’s kiss moment like this one:

That’s the beauty of the Lounge — no need to pay thousands for “points consultants” when you’ve got 60,000+ fellow travelers helping each other unlock that value for free.

👉 Join the Daily Drop Lounge and come hang out with us.

That’s gonna finish off the week, my friends.

I hope you enjoyed this jam-packed week of travel content, and I look forward to seeing you next week… except for Monday, when we’ll be off. 😉

Have a great long weekend and see you Tuesday,

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With contributions by Tiffany Eastham, McKay Moffitt, and Benji Stawski