Last updated: October 20, 2026
JetBlue is selling TrueBlue points with a targeted bonus of up to 120% through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 5, 2026. On the grid Upgraded Points and AwardWallet are publishing, a purchase of 20,000 points becomes 44,000 and costs $645, about 1.47¢ a point once the 7.5% tax recovery fee is in the price. Buying 200,000 points, the top of that grid, becomes 440,000 for $6,450 at the same rate.
TrueBlue prices awards off the cash fare. There is no chart to beat. The purchase is for a JetBlue ticket you have already found, where the cash fare you would pay is higher than the Points.com total for the points that ticket still needs, plus the taxes the award still charges. AwardWallet’s own Mint example is the version that fails that test. A Boston–San Francisco Mint seat they priced at 49,100 points comes to about $720 of points at 1.47¢, plus $5.60 in taxes, against a cash fare they put at $649. On that search, pay cash.
A smaller fare can be a top-off, and only a top-off. AwardWallet shows Boston–Wilmington from 6,100 points plus $5.60 and does not print the cash fare. Price that fare yourself. A purchase of 1,000–4,000 points is the no-bonus band, about 3.23¢, and 4,000 points still leaves a 6,100-point ticket short. The bonus starts at 5,000 points bought.
Before you buy points: Run your spending through the credit card rewards calculator. A buy-points sale does not fix a wallet that should be earning a transferable currency. Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo transfer to JetBlue at 1:1. Amex and Capital One transfer at worse ratios. If you already hold Rove miles, a 20% bonus through November 14 turns 10,000 Rove miles into 12,000 TrueBlue points. Move points you already have before you pay cash for TrueBlue.
The promo, without the fluff
Log in and open the JetBlue purchase page. Upgraded Points calls this offer targeted and says JetBlue might show a different bonus than 120%. AwardWallet’s team, checking the same promotion, was seeing one grid. The ratio and the total on your screen are the offer.
| Detail | What the sources say |
|---|---|
| Window | Through November 5, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET. Upgraded Points says Eastern time. AwardWallet writes 11:59 p.m. EST. November 5 is after the U.S. clocks change, so those are the same clock |
| Who | Targeted, in Upgraded Points’ account of it. Read the bonus on your own purchase page |
| Tiers AwardWallet prints | 1,000–4,000 no bonus (3.23¢). 5,000–9,000 at 100% (1.61¢). 10,000–19,000 at 110% (1.54¢). 20,000–200,000 at 120% (1.47¢) |
| What those cents include | The 7.5% tax recovery fee. Canadian residents also pay GST/HST, and Quebec residents pay QST, under the Points.com terms |
| Best-rate floor | 20,000 points bought becomes 44,000 for $645. That is already 1.47¢. The 200,000-point buy is the same rate, not a better one |
| Who sells them | Points.com. AwardWallet says the charge does not code as airfare or travel |
| Refunds | Non-refundable, in the Points.com terms and in AwardWallet’s summary of the offer |
| Posting | Generally within 72 hours (Points.com terms; AwardWallet). AwardWallet’s user data puts a typical purchase at about a day |
| Status | Purchased points do not count toward Mosaic, or toward any higher TrueBlue status (Points.com terms) |
| Cap on the sale reports | Upgraded Points: a maximum of 200,000 points per transaction, 440,000 after a 120% bonus. AwardWallet: a maximum of 200,000 during this offer, and the same 200,000-before-bonus figure per transaction |
| Cap in JetBlue’s standing terms | The Points.com terms still say increments of 1,000, a maximum of 30,000 points per transaction, and 120,000 points in a calendar year. The page you are signed into is the limit that will take your money |
The cents above are the U.S. price, tax recovery fee included. A Canadian checkout is higher once GST/HST or QST lands. Do not use 1.47¢ as your price if the receipt shows a different tax line.
This sale is a points purchase. It is listed with the other active sales on the point sales page. The 20% off sale that ended October 18, 2026 was a different, more expensive offer, about 2.58¢, and it has its own writeup.
What you pay per point
AwardWallet’s two published totals fix the U.S. price. $645 buys 20,000 points and delivers 44,000. $6,450 buys 200,000 points and delivers 440,000. Both are $32.25 per 1,000 points bought, with the 7.5% tax recovery fee included, before any Canadian sales tax.
Divide that $32.25 by the points you actually receive:
| Bonus on your screen | Points received per 1,000 bought | Cents per point received |
|---|---|---|
| None | 1,000 | 3.23¢ (AwardWallet; $32.25 / 1,000 is 3.225¢) |
| 100% | 2,000 | 1.61¢ |
| 110% | 2,100 | 1.54¢ |
| 120% | 2,200 | 1.47¢ |
The same rate, at the edges of each band AwardWallet prints:
| Points you buy | Cash, 7.5% included | Points you receive | Cents per point received |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,000 (top of the no-bonus band) | $129 | 4,000 | 3.23¢ |
| 5,000 (100% starts) | $161.25 | 10,000 | 1.61¢ |
| 9,000 | $290.25 | 18,000 | 1.61¢ |
| 10,000 (110% starts) | $322.50 | 21,000 | 1.54¢ |
| 19,000 | $612.75 | 39,900 | 1.54¢ |
| 20,000 (120% starts) | $645 | 44,000 | 1.47¢ |
| 200,000 (the reported transaction max, if your screen allows it) | $6,450 | 440,000 | 1.47¢ |
Stepping from 19,000 to 20,000 is the jump that matters. Nineteen thousand points bought costs $612.75 and returns 39,900 points at 1.54¢. Twenty thousand costs $645 and returns 44,000 at 1.47¢. The extra $32.25 buys 4,100 more points. It is worth paying only when you will use those points. Needing 4,000 points and buying 4,000 is how this sale gets worse: you pay about 3.23¢ and receive no bonus.
The Points Guy’s October 2026 valuation, which every MaxPoints tool uses, puts a TrueBlue point at 1.35¢. That is under 1.47¢, and it is under 1.54¢ and 1.61¢. Upgraded Points says its own experience of TrueBlue redemptions lands between 1.3¢ and 1.5¢, so 1.47¢ sits inside that range and still depends on the ticket. AwardWallet’s users average about 1.24¢, inside a band they put at roughly 1¢ to 1.5¢. Averages are not your fare. The cash price of the flight on the screen is.
Price the fare, then buy the gap
Search the award on JetBlue before a dollar goes to Points.com. TrueBlue does not publish an award chart. The points price moves with the cash fare, which is why a cheap ticket is a cheap award and an expensive ticket is an expensive award. These two rows are AwardWallet’s snapshots of this sale. They are a reason to run the same comparison. They are not inventory.
| Fare AwardWallet cites | Points | Taxes they cite | At the sale price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston–Wilmington, from | 6,100 | $5.60 | They do not print the cash fare. A 5,000-point purchase, the smallest buy in the 100% band, costs $161.25 and returns 10,000 points |
| Boston–San Francisco, JetBlue Mint | 49,100 | $5.60 | About $720 of points at 1.47¢, plus $5.60, against a cash fare of $649. Cash wins |
The Mint line is the whole argument on JetBlue metal. Paying 1.47¢ for points, then redeeming them against a fare that is cheaper in dollars, loses money. AwardWallet’s $720 is 49,100 points at 1.47¢, the unit price. The purchase page sells in 1,000-point steps under the standing terms, so the receipt for a 49,100-point seat is the next step that covers it, at whatever bonus that step sits in. At 120%, 49,100 points is more than 20,000 points bought (20,000 bought returns 44,000), so the seat can land in the top tier in one purchase if the screen allows the size. Read the total. Then compare it with $649, or with whatever the cash fare is the day you look.
Upgraded Points says JetBlue partner awards, naming Qatar Airways and Japan Airlines, and especially business class, can come out above 1.47¢. It also says that is not a guarantee. Search the partner seat on JetBlue, read the points and the taxes, and compare that total with the cash ticket you would actually buy. A partner price from a blog, with no seat in your search, is someone else’s number.
The test on any of these fares is the same. Cash fare you would pay, against the purchase total for the points you still need, plus the taxes the award still charges. The points have to be in the account before you can ticket. The published posting window is 72 hours, and AwardWallet’s users usually see them in about a day. Buy while the fare is on the screen, with enough slack to ticket after the points show up.
Purchased points do not move you toward Mosaic. The Points.com terms say they do not count toward any higher status. A status plan does not run through this checkout.
Transferable points first
Five bank currencies on this site transfer to JetBlue, and Rove does too. The ratios below are how this site’s transfer-partner pages list them.
| Program | Ratio into TrueBlue | What 1,000 of those points become |
|---|---|---|
| Chase Ultimate Rewards | 1:1 | 1,000 |
| Citi ThankYou | 1:1 | 1,000 |
| Wells Fargo Rewards | 1:1 | 1,000 |
| Amex Membership Rewards | 1:0.8 (5:4) | 800 |
| Capital One miles | 5:3 | 600 |
| Rove miles, through November 14 | 1:1.2 during the 20% bonus | 1,200 |
The Points Guy’s October 2026 valuations put Chase at 2.05¢, Citi at 1.9¢, Wells Fargo at 1.75¢, Amex at 2.0¢, and Capital One at 1.85¢. Those are planning figures, not rates the banks pay. A TrueBlue point you manufacture by transferring is a bank point you could have used somewhere else.
The smallest purchase that hits 1.47¢ is 20,000 points bought, which returns 44,000 TrueBlue points for $645.
| How you cover 44,000 TrueBlue points | What it costs on those figures |
|---|---|
| Buy 20,000 points at 120% | $645 |
| Transfer 44,000 Chase points at 1:1 | No cash. About $902 at 2.05¢ |
| Transfer 44,000 Citi points at 1:1 | No cash. About $836 at 1.9¢ |
| Transfer 44,000 Wells Fargo points at 1:1 | No cash. About $770 at 1.75¢ |
| Transfer 55,000 Membership Rewards at 1:0.8 | No cash. About $1,100 at 2.0¢. 55,000 × 0.8 = 44,000 |
| Transfer Capital One miles at 5:3 | No cash. About $1,357 at 1.85¢ for the exact 44,000 (44,000 / 0.6 × 1.85¢), before the screen rounds up to a transfer step |
On those figures, buying is the cheaper way to produce a TrueBlue point than moving Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Amex, or Capital One. That comparison only matters when the bank points have a better use. If they would otherwise sit, the transfer costs no cash and is the simpler way to cover a fare you have already priced. Check the transfer screen first. Buy the gap that is left, and buy it only when the cash fare loses.
Rove is the transfer with a bonus on it. Through November 14, 10,000 Rove miles become 12,000 TrueBlue points. Receiving 12,000 points from the buy-points page, at the 100% tier, means buying 6,000 points: 6 × $32.25 = $193.50, and 6,000 sits in the 5,000–9,000 band AwardWallet prices at 1.61¢. If you already hold the Rove miles and the fare clears the cash test, transfer them. The Rove to JetBlue article is the bonus, the end time, and the other Rove partners competing for the same miles. Live card transfer bonuses are on the transfer bonuses page. This purchase does not improve those transfers.
A gap under 5,000 points is the awkward case. The published grid gives no bonus until you buy 5,000. Paying 3.23¢ for a few thousand points, or stepping up to 5,000 and receiving 10,000 you may not need, is a worse top-off than transferring 1,000 Chase, Citi, or Wells Fargo points when that balance already covers the fare.
Points.com purchases generally do not code as airfare. AwardWallet’s note is to put the charge on a card where the spending itself is useful. Which card that is, for your categories, is the calculator’s question.
Where 1.47¢ sits in the history
AwardWallet’s history table treats 1.47¢ as a decent TrueBlue sale and not the cheapest one it has recorded. The rows that decide that, from the table on the page checked October 20, 2026:
| Promotion ended | What AwardWallet records | Min cents per point |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2026 (this sale) | 120% bonus | 1.47¢ |
| October 18, 2026 | 20% discount | 2.58¢ |
| October 1, 2026 | 120% bonus | 1.47¢ |
| August 9, June 10, April 18, and February 23, 2026 | 125% bonus | 1.43¢ |
| December 31, 2025 and October 28, 2025 | 130% bonus | 1.40¢ |
| December 31, 2024 | 130% bonus | 1.40¢ |
A 120% bonus at the same 1.47¢ ended on October 1, 2026. The 20% discount that ended October 18 was the worse offer in between, at 2.58¢. Several 125% bonuses in 2026 priced points at 1.43¢. AwardWallet records 130% bonuses in late 2025 and at the end of 2024 at 1.40¢, and the same table includes a 1.32¢ price on a bonus that ended March 31, 2024. Waiting for a record sale is a guess. Paying 1.47¢ for points you have no fare for is the expensive version of a decent sale.
When to buy
Pay Points.com only when all of these are true:
- The fare is already in your JetBlue search. A specific flight, cabin, date, points price, and tax line. AwardWallet’s 6,100 and 49,100 figures are examples. They are not the price until your search says so.
- Your purchase page shows the bonus you are paying for. Upgraded Points says the offer is targeted. A screen at 100% or 110% is 1.61¢ or 1.54¢, not 1.47¢. A screen with no bonus is about 3.23¢.
- The cash fare loses. The cash price of the trip you would actually buy is greater than the purchase total, including the 7.5% tax recovery fee and any GST/HST or QST on the receipt, plus the taxes the award still charges. On AwardWallet’s Mint snapshot, $649 cash beat about $720 of points plus $5.60.
- You have checked the transfers. Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo at 1:1, Amex at 1:0.8, Capital One at 5:3, and Rove at 1.2 through November 14 can cover a gap without cash. Buy what they should not cover.
- The purchase lands on a bonus you will use. Do not buy 1,000–4,000 points into the no-bonus band when 5,000 would be 100%. Do not buy 20,000, the 120% floor, when 10,000 at 110% already covers the ticket.
- The cap on your screen still has room. Sale reports describe 200,000 points per transaction, or 200,000 during the offer. The standing Points.com terms still say 30,000 per transaction and 120,000 in a calendar year, including gifts. Read the remaining room before you pay. Points you already bought in 2026 can count against a calendar-year cap.
- The fare can survive the posting delay. The points are supposed to post within 72 hours, and AwardWallet’s users usually see them in about a day. The bonus follows a purchase completed by 11:59 p.m. ET on November 5. The seat does not have to wait with you.
The clean yes: you are short a known number of points for a fare you have already priced, the purchase page shows a bonus on a buy you will actually redeem, a transfer does not cover the gap or those bank points have a better use, and the cash fare is higher than the receipt.
When to leave the cash alone
Skip the sale if any of these are true:
- Nothing is bookable. Buying 200,000 points on November 5 because a headline says 120%, then searching an empty calendar, is $6,450 for 440,000 points you hope a future fare will price kindly.
- The cash fare is the ordinary one. TrueBlue moves with the cash price. AwardWallet’s Mint search at 49,100 points lost to a $649 cash fare. A cheap JetBlue ticket is a ticket to pay for in dollars.
- Your screen does not show 120%, and you needed 120% for the fare to win. A 100% checkout is 1.61¢. A 110% checkout is 1.54¢. Both are above the 1.35¢ planning figure. Run the fare against the price the screen actually charges.
- The gap is a few thousand points and you hold Chase, Citi, or Wells Fargo. A 1:1 transfer costs no cash. A no-bonus purchase is about 3.23¢.
- You would be buying status. Purchased points do not count toward Mosaic.
- The cap on the page is the standing 30,000 or 120,000, and this purchase would blow past it. The sale writeups and the Points.com terms disagree. Paying for points that will not post is the failure mode.
- The fare is fragile and the points have not posted. Seventy-two hours is the published window. A second purchase is a second non-refundable charge.
The verdict
Buy TrueBlue points in this window only for a fare you can already price, at the bonus your own purchase page shows, after a Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Amex, Capital One, or Rove transfer has covered what it should.
The clock is 11:59 p.m. ET on November 5, 2026. The published grid is no bonus from 1,000 to 4,000 points (about 3.23¢), 100% from 5,000 to 9,000 (1.61¢), 110% from 10,000 to 19,000 (1.54¢), and 120% from 20,000 to 200,000 (1.47¢), with the 7.5% tax recovery fee in those prices. Twenty thousand points bought is $645 for 44,000 points. Two hundred thousand is $6,450 for 440,000, the same 1.47¢, and only if the signed-in page allows a purchase that large. The standing terms still say 30,000 per transaction and 120,000 in a calendar year.
The Points Guy’s figure for a TrueBlue point is 1.35¢, so 1.47¢ does not clear the valuation by itself. It clears a fare whose cash price is higher than the receipt. AwardWallet’s Boston–San Francisco Mint snapshot did not clear it. Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo at 1:1 give up more value on those planning figures than $645, and they cost no cash when the points are already yours.
Find the fare. Read the taxes. Read the bonus on your purchase page. Then buy exactly the points that ticket requires.
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Point values are The Points Guy’s October 2026 valuations, the same ones every MaxPoints tool uses.
Disclaimer / sources
This article reflects the JetBlue TrueBlue buy-points promotion reported for late October 2026. Checked October 20, 2026. A logged-in JetBlue purchase page was not available for this check. Confirm the bonus, the tax, the cap, and the fare on your own account before you pay.
- Upgraded Points, Buy JetBlue TrueBlue Points With a 120% Bonus, updated October 19, 2026: targeted promotion through November 5, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time; 1,000–4,000 with no bonus; 5,000–9,000 at 100%; 10,000–19,000 at 110%; 20,000 or more at 120% (1.47 cents); a different offer may appear; maximum 200,000 points per transaction, 440,000 after 120%, for $6,450 including the 7.5% tax recovery fee; TrueBlue is fixed-value; their redemption experience is 1.3 to 1.5 cents; a specific redemption you are close to is the case for buying; partner awards on Qatar Airways and Japan Airlines, especially business class, could beat 1.47 cents and are not a guarantee; Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo transfer 1:1; Amex is 5:4; Capital One is 5:3. The same tiers, the November 5 deadline, the 1.47-cent top tier, and the same transfer partners appear in Upgraded Points’ October 2026 buy-points roundup, updated October 19, 2026.
- AwardWallet, buy JetBlue points, fetched October 20, 2026: through November 5, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EST; non-refundable; points should post within 72 hours, and user data usually shows about a day; purchased points do not count toward Mosaic; maximum 200,000 points during this offer; 7.5% tax recovery fee; one grid across the team, at 3.23¢ / 1.61¢ / 1.54¢ / 1.47¢ for the bands above; 440,000 points (200,000 base + 240,000 bonus) per transaction for $6,450; 44,000 points after the bonus for $645; TrueBlue generally 1¢ to 1.5¢, with user redemptions averaging about 1.24¢; Boston–Wilmington from 6,100 points plus $5.60; Boston–San Francisco Mint at 49,100 points, about $720 at 1.47¢ plus $5.60, against a $649 cash fare; Points.com processes the purchase and it does not count as airfare. The history table on that page is the source of the ended-sale rows above, including the October 1, 2026 120% bonus at 1.47¢, the 125% bonuses in 2026 at 1.43¢, the 130% bonuses in late 2025 and on December 31, 2024 at 1.40¢, and a 1.32¢ price on the bonus that ended March 31, 2024.
- $32.25 per 1,000 is $645 / 20, which equals $6,450 / 200. $129, $161.25, $290.25, $322.50, and $612.75 are 4, 5, 9, 10, and 19 times $32.25. 10,000 / 18,000 / 21,000 / 39,900 / 44,000 / 440,000 points received are the points bought times 1, 2, 2.1, or 2.2 at the band AwardWallet assigns. 3.225¢, 1.6125¢, 1.5357¢, and 1.4659¢ are $32.25 divided by 1,000, 2,000, 2,100, and 2,200. AwardWallet’s printed cents are the rounded figures. $193.50 is 6 × $32.25, for 6,000 points bought at 100%, which returns 12,000. About $720 is AwardWallet’s figure for 49,100 points at 1.47¢.
- Standing purchase terms, Points.com’s JetBlue terms, fetched October 20, 2026: U.S. dollars; GST/HST for Canadian residents and QST for Quebec residents; non-refundable; generally posted within 72 hours; purchased points do not count toward status; increments of 1,000 points to a maximum of 30,000 per transaction and 120,000 in a calendar year; the most a member may receive in a calendar year is 120,000 less any points that member bought for their own account. Those standing caps and the 200,000-point figures in the sale reports disagree. The signed-in purchase page is the cap.
- Transfers and values. Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo at 1:1, Amex at 1:0.8, and Capital One at 5:3 are how this site’s transfer-partner pages list JetBlue as of October 2026. The Rove 20% bonus (1,000 → 1,200) through November 14, 2026 is the Rove to JetBlue article. Point values are The Points Guy’s October 2026 valuations: TrueBlue 1.35¢, Chase 2.05¢, Citi 1.9¢, Wells Fargo 1.75¢, Amex 2.0¢, Capital One 1.85¢. $902, $836, $770, and $1,100 are 44,000 × 2.05¢, 44,000 × 1.9¢, 44,000 × 1.75¢, and 55,000 × 2.0¢. About $1,357 is 44,000 / 0.6 × 1.85¢, rounded to the nearest dollar.
- Related MaxPoints pieces: JetBlue 20% off buy points, ended October 18, Rove to JetBlue 20% transfer bonus, point sales, transfer bonuses.
Offers can end early. Confirm the bonus, the tax, the cap, and the fare on your own JetBlue account before you pay.
