Originally Posted by
ElevatorEnthusiast
As far as I know, Lifetime Globalist can be only be achieved by base points, which can only be earned through paying cash on stays.
Points from some bank cards may be used to pay for paid rates at Hyatt where the stays count toward Hyatt base points for lifetime Globalist, and there has been MS using those cards to cover such Hyatt stays. The Hyatt credit cards aren’t the only bank cards out there used for MS, it’s just that the Hyatt cards are not useful for this purpose. But other cards have been useful to MS toward points that can be used to get lifetime Globalist status.