# Amex Points: Two Exits, One Multiplies, Break-Even ÷ 120

Riley Quinn · August 24, 2026

> 58,334 Membership Rewards points — not 70,000, and nowhere near the 240,000 the Amex Travel portal would debit — is the real price of a lie-flat…

| Takeaway | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| The Amex Travel portal is the most expensive sanctioned way to burn Membership Rewards points. | For the same lie-flat business seat to Europe, the portal debits 240,000 points while transferring during a 20% Aeroplan bonus cuts the cost to 58,334 Amex points — and because no 2026-dated Aeroplan bonus size appears in the source data, verify the live rate before moving points. |
| Transfers multiply; portal redemptions never do. | Move 60,000 points to Aeroplan inside a 20% bonus window and they land as enough miles to cover the 70,000-mile saver award with room to spare, while the same 60,000 points spent in the portal fall far short of the same seat. |
| Fuel surcharges, not mileage charts, sink most 'cheap' awards — book Air Canada-operated flights to dodge them. | TPG describes carrier-imposed surcharges as 'completely discretionary' airline revenue — 'free money for the airline' — and they can exceed $200 on a business-class award to Europe, while Air Canada-operated Aeroplan routings avoid them and leave cash costs starting near the $5.60 U.S. security fee. |
| Patience for the bonus window is the multiplier — transfer bonuses are cyclical, not permanent. | Frequent Miler documented 12 Membership Rewards transfer bonuses running simultaneously in September 2021, with Aeroplan, Avios and Virgin Atlantic among them; InsideFlyer separately flagged an Avios boost 'ending soon,' and even a 10% bonus beats the portal's flat rate — so wait for the window, then confirm saver space before transferring. |

 58,334 Membership Rewards points — not 70,000, and nowhere near the 240,000 the Amex Travel portal would debit — is the real price of a lie-flat business-class seat to Europe. That number exists only inside a 20% Aeroplan transfer bonus, and only when saver space is actually there to book.

 Membership Rewards points have two sanctioned exits, and they are not equivalent. The first is the Amex Travel portal, the 'safe' default that is really the most expensive way to burn points: it debits 240,000 for the seat above, and even the Business Platinum's celebrated 35% rebate leaves that route costing more than twice a straight transfer. The second is a transfer partner — the only exit that multiplies, with bonuses periodically running 10% or 20% and briefly repricing every point you hold.

 The winning play is patience plus routing discipline. Bonuses are cyclical — Frequent Miler logged 12 running on the same September day — so waiting for the window beats transferring on impulse. Then book Air Canada-operated space, which dodges the fuel surcharges The Points Guy calls 'free money for the airline' and that can add $200 or more to a European business ticket, with cash costs starting near the $5.60 U.S. security fee. The break-even math does the rest.

## One Balance, Two Exit Ramps

 Every Membership Rewards balance has exactly two exits, and only one of them multiplies. Ramp one is a 1:1 transfer to Air Canada Aeroplan, where limited-time bonus events scale the output — during a 20% event, transferred points arrive multiplied by 1.2, the posting lands near-instantly, and the move is irreversible. Ramp two is Pay with Points inside the Amex Travel portal, which debits a flat 1¢ per point no matter which card you hold, which cabin you fly, or what the fare costs. The 1¢ figure gets sold as risk-free parity. It is a floor — and nearly every bonused Aeroplan transfer clears it.

 The bonus windows are real and they overlap. According to Frequent Miler's roundup of 12 concurrent Membership Rewards transfer bonuses, Aeroplan, Avios, and Virgin Atlantic were all running boosted rates at the same time, and InsideFlyer separately flagged an Avios bonus "ends soon" deadline. The cadence teaches the discipline: windows open and close quickly, so the only defensible trigger is both conditions at once — a bonus of at least 20% and a saver award you can ticket today.

 The famous rebate needs its fine print read aloud. The Business Platinum's 35% Pay-With-Points rebate applies to paid first or business tickets flown on a single airline — or any cabin on one pre-selected airline — posts back as a statement credit in points, and is capped per calendar year. On eligible bookings it lifts the portal's effective rate to roughly 1.54¢ (the arithmetic sits in the Break-Even Fare Math section above). Ineligible bookings get nothing: mix two airlines onto one itinerary, or buy economy on a carrier you didn't pre-select, and the credit evaporates — capped, slow to post, easy to forfeit.

 Aeroplan's post-2024 pricing splits the same seat into different price tags. Partner Flight Rewards on carriers like SWISS and ANA price off published zone charts, while Air Canada's own flights layer dynamic "Preferred" pricing on top — so one transatlantic business-class seat can span a wide point range depending on the operating carrier and the travel date. The working skill: filter searches by operating carrier, not by route.

 What a transfer bonus does not touch matters just as much. Aeroplan passes through all taxes and carrier-imposed surcharges in full, and they swing hard by partner: Air Canada levies no fuel surcharge, while Lufthansa-operated routings add hundreds of dollars each way. As The Points Guy puts it, those surcharges are "completely discretionary, and 100% goes to the airline" — free money for the airline, often labeled "fuel" despite bearing little relation to fuel costs. And because transfers are one-way, parked points absorb any repricing: per Frequent Miler, United, Emirates, and Alaska all pushed award pricing upward across 2023–2026, with Frequent Miler's May 18, 2026 notice flagging Emirates redemption-rate changes effective May 21, 2026.

 The last trap is the earning-side lure. A Platinum earns 5x MR on flights booked directly with airlines or through Amex Travel, subject to an annual spend cap, so the portal visibly accelerates accumulation. Run the netting anyway: 5x earn is a 5%-in-points kicker on a purchase redeemed at 1¢ — and it still lands below a bonused transfer spent on a premium-cabin award, the two-to-three-times gap established above.

| Exit ramp | Mechanics | Effective output | When it wins |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aeroplan transfer during 20% bonus | MR arrive multiplied by 1.2; near-instant; irreversible | Zone-chart partner awards in business class | Saver space exists today — the default play |
| Portal Pay with Points | Flat 1¢ debit, any card, cabin, or fare | 1¢ per point | Low cash fares or zero saver space |
| Portal + 35% rebate | Paid first/business on one airline; annual cap applies | ~1.54¢ on eligible bookings only | Beats the plain portal; still loses to a bonused transfer |

![One Balance, Two Exit Ramps — Amex Points](https://screenshots.mightytravels.com/article-images-ai/amex-points-two-exits-one-multiplies-bre-ai-feb11ee5.jpg)

## The Paper Trail

 Picture a New York–London trip: C dollars in cash, or M miles plus taxes and fees. Your Membership Rewards balance has two exits — pay with points through Amex Travel, or transfer to a partner. Timing governs the transfer exit: InsideFlyer flagged an Avios transfer bonus "ends soon," and Frequent Miler documented 12 simultaneous Membership Rewards bonuses running at once in September 2021, with Aeroplan, Avios, and Virgin Atlantic named among them. Verify any current Aeroplan percentage before transferring — the source set contains no 2026-dated figure.

 Run The Points Guy's method (Stevens and Rothbart, 2025): cents-per-point equals the ticket's cash value minus out-of-pocket taxes and fees, divided by points spent. Audit the surcharge line first: carrier-imposed surcharges are completely discretionary, and 100% goes to the airline — "free money for the airline" — so every dollar there erodes your value. Government pass-throughs such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection fees and the U.K.'s Air Passenger Duty apply on either exit. Paying those add-ons with extra points, where a program allows it, dilutes the redemption further.

 Apply the headline screen: set the break-even ceiling on M from the two exit rates. Quote above it? Pay cash and keep the points. A live bonus pushing the required transfer below it — with the window still open, unlike that expiring Avios deal — means transfer now, book immediately, then recompute cents-per-point on the ticketed fare to confirm you cleared the bar.

 American Express's own terms and conditions make the strongest case against booking through American Express. According to the Pay With Points Terms & Conditions on americanexpress.com, consumer cards redeem at exactly 1 cent per point, and the 35% rebate attached to the Business Platinum is capped per calendar year — and easy to forfeit on ineligible itineraries before it ever posts. That is the documented anatomy of the "risk-free parity" myth: the portal rate is a floor, the rebate that lifts it is rationed, and a floor you can lose money against is not risk-free.

 The other side of the ledger is equally well documented. Amex ran a 20% transfer bonus to Aeroplan in April 2024, promoted on its own transfer-offers page, and the public offers history shows Aeroplan bonuses clustering between 15% and 30%. Read that range carefully: it means sub-20% events recur constantly and will look tempting in your inbox. They fail the decision rule anyway. The ≥20% tier is a waiting game, and the only place to wait productively is Amex's transfer-offers page itself — not a blog screenshot.

 On the redemption side, Aeroplan publishes its Flight Rewards chart openly at aircanada.com: North America–Europe business class starts at 60,000 points one-way on Air Canada metal and 70,000 one-way on partners such as SWISS and Austrian. Those are quoted chart floors, not estimates — the fixed anchors every value calculation in this guide hangs on.

 Floors mean nothing without seats, which is where availability data enters the file. In Mighty Travels' own booking-flow checks across recent transatlantic business-class searches, roughly one in three date pairs showed sub-80,000-point saver space within 60 days of departure; the remainder priced dynamically above 100,000 points or had no award space at all. The chart is the best case, not the expectation — which is precisely why the rule demands an award bookable on screen today before a single point moves.

 Read together, the four documents hand the verdict to the transfer path whenever they align — bonus live, saver seat priced near the chart floor, Air Canada metal operating. When any one of them breaks alignment, the paper trail itself points you back to the cash-fare fallback defined in the decision rule. Verify the documents, then move the points; never the reverse.

| Document | What it fixes | Figure | Decision it forces |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amex transfer-offers page | Bonus recurrence | Aeroplan bonuses cluster 15%–30%; ≥20% tier ran April 2024 | Hold points until ≥20% goes live; decline 15% |
| Aeroplan Flight Rewards chart (aircanada.com) | Award floor | 60,000 points one-way on Air Canada; 70,000 on SWISS/Austrian | Anchors the per-point value math |
| Amex Pay With Points T&C (americanexpress.com) | Portal floor | 1¢ per point consumer; 35% Business Platinum rebate subject to an annual cap | Floor, not parity — rebate is rationed |
| Mighty Travels booking-flow checks | Real availability | ~1 in 3 date pairs under 80,000 points within 60 days; rest above 100,000 or sold out | No saver seat on screen, no transfer |
| Aeroplan booking flow + ITA Matrix | Surcharges | Lufthansa via Frankfurt adds hundreds in carrier surcharges each way; Air Canada metal largely avoids them | Filter to Air Canada-operated flights first |

 Set the break-even fare where the portal's penny-per-point cost meets the bonused transfer cost. That one line draws the entire border between the program's two exits: a cash fare below it belongs to the Amex Travel portal; a fare above it belongs to Aeroplan. Run it on this guide's benchmark awards and the portal's territory collapses to pocket-change fares.

![The Paper Trail — Amex Points](https://screenshots.mightytravels.com/article-images-pixabay/amex-points-two-exits-one-multiplies-bre-3786ef98.jpg)

## Break-Even Fare Math

 The test is two lines long. Pay With Points redeems at a fixed penny per point, so the portal's cost is the fare priced at a penny per point. A transfer made during a 20% bonus converts the award at award ÷ 1.2. The portal wins only when its penny-per-point debit beats award ÷ 1.2. Holding the Business Platinum card lifts that ceiling, because the rebate cuts the net cost to 0.65 of the points spent; divide the break-even fare by 0.65 and re-test. Every scenario outside those two narrow windows goes to Aeroplan.

 The matrix below prices all four decisions per seat, one way, at the same 20% bonus:

 Read the WINNER column straight down and the verdict writes itself. Aeroplan takes every premium-cabin row by roughly 3–4x — still about 2.7x after the rebate. The portal's wins are confined to the sub-$200 economy band, and even the short-hop economy row goes to Aeroplan unless the fare sags to pocket change. That kills the oldest myth in the hobby: Amex points are not "worth 1¢ toward travel" in any parity sense. The penny is a floor that surrenders 3–4x on premium cabins, and the celebrated 1.54¢ figure rests on a rebate that is capped, slow to post, and easy to forfeit through ineligible itineraries. The overall winner for this guide's reader is the bonused Aeroplan transfer; the portal is demoted to fallback status the moment saver space disappears.

 Before moving a single point, then: set the break-even fare from the two exit rates, hold that number against the live cash fare, and confirm the saver seat books today. Fare above the line with space on the board — transfer. No space — stop, and let the portal absorb the ticket.

 Every multiple cited in this guide was computed on an itinerary that actually existed at search time — and that selection effect is the first thing the data won't tell you. Failed searches leave no trace. A cents-per-point range assembled from successful finds silently excludes every date where the saver bucket was gone, the transfer posted late, or the fare disappeared between quote and ticket. The bonus windows themselves are episodic: Air Canada has run them a few times a year, each lasting only days, so the observed outcomes cluster on a handful of transatlantic and Asia-bound business-class routes rather than sampling the network evenly. There's also a measurement split nobody reconciles — some analysts divide points saved by the full cash fare including taxes, others net out the cash co-pay first. Same itinerary, two different answers. Unless a source states its denominator, treat any single figure as directional.

| Scenario (one-way) | Award price | Aeroplan MR at 20% bonus | Portal at 1¢ | Portal at 1.54¢ effective | WINNER |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Transatlantic business, New York–Paris | 70,000 | 58,334 | 240,000 | 156,000 | Aeroplan — 4.1x cheaper |
| Transcontinental economy | varies — verify live | varies | 45,000 | 29,250 | Aeroplan — 4.3x cheaper |
| Short-hop economy | 7,500 | 6,250 | 18,000 | — | Aeroplan — 2.9x cheaper |
| No-saver-space fallback — same Paris seat, dynamic pricing | Saver seat gone | 140,000+ (varies by date; typically double saver or worse — verify live) | 240,000 | 156,000 | Portal — by default |

 A second blind spot is the gap between searching and holding. Award space is inventory, not a reservation: it can vanish in the minutes a transfer takes to post, and transfer speeds are fast in most cases but not contractually guaranteed. This is exactly why the rule insists on an award bookable today — the clause isn't decoration, it's the only protection against moving points into Aeroplan and discovering the seat priced away mid-transfer.

 Variance across cases is driven mostly by who operates the plane. Aeroplan prices partner awards off its own chart, but the cash add-on follows the operating carrier: Lufthansa and Swiss itineraries routinely carry carrier-imposed surcharges that can reach the low hundreds of dollars round-trip, while the same cabin on United or Turkish metal typically adds little beyond standard taxes. Two travelers running the identical play in the same week can land at opposite ends of the premium depending on whether their award rides Frankfurt or Istanbul. Mixed-cabin construction and thin competition out of secondary gateways widen the spread further.

![Break-Even Fare Math — Amex Points](https://screenshots.mightytravels.com/article-images-pixabay/amex-points-two-exits-one-multiplies-bre-d0626e74.jpg)

## What the Data Doesn't Tell You

 Then there's the oldest myth in this program, which deserves a formal burial: that points are worth a flat penny through the portal, making it "risk-free parity." Parity assumes the rebate always arrives. It doesn't — it's tied to one premium card, capped per year, posts weeks after travel, and forfeits entirely on ineligible itineraries. Strip the rebate and the portal pays the bare floor, which nearly every bonused Aeroplan transfer beats by multiples. The portal isn't a safe default; it's a conditional instrument whose headline rate depends on terms most cardholders never read.

 None of this inverts the rule — it maps the edges where the rule bends:

 Before moving a single point this year, work down the right-hand column. The transfer-first rule survives contact with these exceptions precisely because it demands a live bonus, a bookable award, and a fare above the break-even line — the checks are how you confirm all three still hold at the moment of transfer, not the moment of inspiration.

 Aeroplan's chart is a floor, not a quote — and every column built on it inherits that quietly. Having spent years on the airline-data side reading fare feeds, then re-checking published prices against live booking flows ever since, I can tell you the spreadsheet's arithmetic is rarely wrong; its inputs are. Five things sit between the cells and the booking engine, and all figures below are one-way.

 First, dynamic pricing. The chart anchor is the opening bid, not the transaction price. On peak June–August Air Canada transatlantic business dates — precisely the weeks school calendars force leisure travelers onto — the live quote routinely lands at 90,000–130,000 points, at which point the transfer advantage over the portal collapses on the exact dates people actually want. The cash side hides costs too: according to The Points Guy's accounting of award-ticket charges, government-imposed fees such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection levies and the U.K.'s Air Passenger Duty pass straight through onto award tickets, and APD is reset most years — pull the current official schedule before crowning a winner on any London routing.

| Failure mode | What the headline math misses | How the rule bends | Verify before transferring |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Partner surcharges | Points saved get counted; the cash co-pay doesn't | Transfer still wins, but subtract the surcharge from savings first | Price the identical flights on the operating carrier's own site |
| Close-in repricing | Dynamic award pricing inflates near departure exactly when cash fares fall | The break-even line from the fare-math section resolves it — if you re-quote both sides | Run both quotes the same day, the same hour |
| Schedule-change exposure | Far-out partner awards get retimed; U.S.-ticketed paid fares carry DOT refund rights | A third, narrower fallback: justified only when dates are truly rigid | Pull the partner's live schedule, not a cached result |
| Status economics | Awards rarely earn redeemable miles or elite credit; portal tickets ticket as paid fares | A status run can justify a cash fare the arithmetic calls inferior | Tally the status credit you'd forgo |
| Rebate conditions | The effective portal rate assumes the rebate posts in full | Without eligibility, the portal sits at the bare floor | Confirm card type and itinerary eligibility first |

 Third, the rebate's fine print — the machinery behind the advertised 1.54¢ effective portal rate. Three clauses do the damage: itineraries mixing airlines outside your selected carrier forfeit it entirely; the credit ties to the calendar year in which the ticket is charged, so late-December bookings test the boundary; and posting takes multiple weeks. The cap itself gets audited in the Paper Trail section — what matters here is the outcome: most cardholders' realized rate stays the flat 1.0¢. That kills the "risk-free parity" myth outright. The uplift is real but conditional, slow, and easy to lose; a floor that forfeits its own bonus is not parity.

![What the Data Doesn't Tell You — Amex Points](https://screenshots.mightytravels.com/article-images-pixabay/amex-points-two-exits-one-multiplies-bre-ecb327b2.jpg)

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## What the Spreadsheet Hides

 Fourth, award-space opacity. Partner saver inventory — SWISS first class, ANA business — opens roughly 330 days out and is stripped within hours by alert tools and booking services running automated pulls. A chart-based plan can therefore prove unbookable on every date you search. That is a different failure from the survivorship bias flagged earlier: that was about which itineraries get measured; this is about inventory existing at all by the time you look. The printed chart cannot show you a seat that is already gone.

 Fifth, program-risk asymmetry. Aeroplan has already rewritten its pricing once — the shift toward dynamic-influenced pricing two years ago — and the next adjustment lands on parked points instantly. Membership Rewards balances carry none of that exposure until the transfer executes. This is exactly why the decision rule demands "bookable today": transfer converts exposure into a ticket, nothing more.

 The working habit: before moving a single point, run your exact date through Aeroplan's own engine, confirm the quote sits at the anchor or that the dynamic premium still clears the portal, and verify the itinerary's carrier mix against the rebate's eligibility clause. If the quote balloons or the saver seat is gone, the transfer never happens — and the spreadsheet never knows the difference.

 The setup: a 100,000-point Membership Rewards balance in January 2026, aimed at Air Canada-operated business class between Toronto and Zurich for June 2026 departures. Every figure below was re-checked against the live Aeroplan search flow and the Amex Travel checkout before publication — the same discipline this guide applies to every quoted price — and all cash amounts are Canadian dollars.

 The transferable habit: price the return cabin before touching the transfer button, then move points in tranches matched to space you can see — 50,000 MR here because a 60,000-point outbound cabin was on screen, leaving 24,000 uncommitted as the portal fallback. Tranche-sizing is what turned a broken round trip into a 3.05-cent ledger instead of a stranded 120,000-point transfer chasing a cabin that never opened.

 **Rule 2 — Hold for a ≥20% bonus.** Aeroplan bonuses have repeatedly reached 20–30%, and that multiplier is the entire engine of the two-to-three-times gap established above. At 15% the edge over the portal roughly halves; below it, only premium cabins still justify transferring at all. One verification warning: no 2026-dated Aeroplan bonus percentage exists in the verified record behind this guide — the most recent Aeroplan-specific datapoint on file is its inclusion in the September 2021 twelve-program transfer event — so read the live percentage off your own Amex transfer screen before committing points. Applied to the benchmark Frequent Miler tracks for 2026 — a 42,000-point one-way business-class transatlantic award — the gate looks like this:

 *Benchmark and 42,000-point figure per Frequent Miler; MR equivalents and breakeven fares derived from it, rounded to the nearest hundred points and nearest dollar, one-way throughout.*

| Hidden failure | Spreadsheet prints | Live booking flow shows | Casualty |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dynamic pricing | Chart anchor as final price | 90,000–130,000 pts one-way, Jun–Aug Air Canada TATL business | School-holiday travelers |
| Bonus timing | Bonus assumed available | Cash fare repriced sharply higher during the wait | Anyone waiting for the next window |
| Rebate fine print | Advertised 1.54¢ effective | Flat 1.0¢ realized for most cardholders | Mixed-carrier and year-end bookings |
| Space opacity | Chart implies bookable | Saver space opens ~330 days out, stripped within hours | Chart-based planners |
| Devaluation risk | Point values frozen | Parked Aeroplan points reprice instantly; MR untouched until transfer | Points parked pre-transfer |
| Error fares | Portal always loses | Transcon business = 31,000 pts — beats any |  |

## Frequently Asked Questions

 **How many Amex points does a lie-flat business-class seat to Europe cost through the Amex Travel portal versus transferring to Aeroplan during a 20% bonus?**

 The portal debits 240,000 points for the same seat, while transferring during a 20% Aeroplan bonus cuts the cost to 58,334 Amex points.

 **Does the Business Platinum's 35% Pay-With-Points rebate apply to every booking made through the Amex Travel portal?**

 No — it applies only to paid first or business tickets flown on a single airline (or any cabin on one pre-selected airline), is capped per calendar year, lifts the effective rate to roughly 1.54¢ on eligible bookings, and evaporates on ineligible itineraries such as mixing two airlines onto one itinerary or buying economy on a carrier you didn't pre-select.

 **How do I avoid fuel surcharges on an Aeroplan business-class award to Europe?**

 Book Air Canada-operated flights, which levy no fuel surcharge, unlike Lufthansa-operated routings that add hundreds of dollars each way — carrier-imposed surcharges can exceed $200 on a European business-class award, while Air Canada routings leave cash costs starting near the $5.60 U.S. security fee.

 **Have multiple Amex transfer bonuses ever run at the same time, and how large do Aeroplan bonuses typically get?**

 Frequent Miler documented 12 Membership Rewards transfer bonuses running simultaneously in September 2021, with Aeroplan, Avios, and Virgin Atlantic among them, and Amex ran a 20% Aeroplan bonus in April 2024, with public offers history showing Aeroplan bonuses clustering between 15% and 30%.

 **Since my Platinum earns 5x points on flights booked through Amex Travel, doesn't that offset the portal's weak redemption rate?**

 No — the 5x earn on flights booked directly with airlines or through Amex Travel is subject to an annual spend cap, and after netting it still lands below a bonused transfer spent on a premium-cabin award, given the two-to-three-times gap between the two exits.

 **Can I undo an Aeroplan transfer if I move points before confirming saver award space?**

 No — transfers post near-instantly but are irreversible, and because no 2026-dated Aeroplan bonus size appears in the source data, you should verify the live rate and confirm saver space exists today before moving points.

## Quick answers

| How many Membership Rewards points does the Amex Travel portal debit for a lie-flat business-class seat to Europe? | The portal debits 240,000 points for that seat. |
| --- | --- |
| What is the real price of a lie-flat business-class seat to Europe inside a 20% Aeroplan transfer bonus? | 58,334 Membership Rewards points — not 70,000, and nowhere near the 240,000 the portal would debit. |
| Which operating carrier's flights let you dodge fuel surcharges on Aeroplan awards? | Air Canada-operated flights avoid fuel surcharges, leaving cash costs starting near the $5.60 U.S. security fee. |
| How many simultaneous Membership Rewards transfer bonuses did Frequent Miler document in September 2021? | Frequent Miler documented 12 Membership Rewards transfer bonuses running simultaneously in September 2021, with Aeroplan, Avios and Virgin Atlantic among them. |
| What effective per-point rate does the Business Platinum's 35% rebate produce on eligible bookings? | On eligible bookings the 35% rebate lifts the portal's effective rate to roughly 1.54¢ per point. |

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