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Six lesser-known ways of earning Krisflyer miles

By now, everyone reading this site should be familiar with the main ways of earning miles. But today I was poking around the Krisflyer website while preparing for the upcoming Milelion-iPayMy webinar (sign...

Mark your calendars: The Milelion-iPayMy Webinar, 5th & 8th December

The Milelion is pleased to announce a collaboration with iPayMy to hold two introductory travel hacking webinars on the 5th and 8th of December! These sessions will be targeted at beginners to the...

Further analyzing the Krisflyer partner award chart

I've written several articles previously about how you can make Krisflyer's Star Alliance partner award chart work for you. 4 sweet spots on the Krisflyer partner award chart Revisiting the Krisflyer Star Alliance Partner...

Playing the Miles Game – Getting Started with Some Basics

I recently had the pleasure of facilitating a session on basic travel hacking as part of the School of Uncommon Knowledge, which Aaron had also mentioned earlier. Ultimately, I don't think I really...

What credit cards should you use for Black Friday shopping?

Black Friday is here again as Americans try to  ease the pain of too much turkey and the vagaries of the electoral college system by spending their way into a debt-fueled oblivion! I'm not going...

Lifemiles Cyber Week sale- 140% bonus now available!

Lifemiles are back on sale until November 28 with one of the better offers in recent memory. With this promotion, you get a 140% bonus on miles purchased with a minimum purchase amount...

UOB cardholder with an upcoming annual fee? Better check your UNI$ balance

I'm not the most organized of people and don't make a habit of scrutinizing my credit card statement every month. But one practice of UOB has made me extra paranoid about doing so. UOB has...

Friends with bennies? Krisflyer member-get-member promo with 20k miles to be won

Sometimes I wish I had friends. Because they'd be useful for promotions like this. Krisflyer is having a Top Referrer promotion until 18 December 2016 where the top 20 referrers get 20,000 miles...

Citibank Rewards kills 10X points on bill payments

For quite some time, one of the most Fight Clubby things about the miles and points game was the ability to earn 10X points (4 miles per $1) on bill payments through...

Malaysia Airlines business class fare sale is back with more great deals

No sooner did I write about how hard it was to get cheap premium cabin fares ex-SIN than Malaysia Airlines pops up with some very intriguing offers for year end. Unfortunately MAS's route...

How Singapore-based flyers can get cheap(er) premium cabin tickets

Singapore is number one in a lot of things. Unfortunately, that also includes cost of living. The good folks at the EIU have been telling us as much for a long while...

Hotel Vagabond Review: how does Singapore’s first Tribute property stack up?

Art Meets Hospitality at Hotel Vagabond A very different stay from the usual. Stayed November 2016 Published November 2016 This was a really last-minute decision as there is a promotion for Starwood members to stay at...

DBS changes its mile redemption structure from annual fee to per transfer

DBS has always been a bit of an outlier when it came to conversion fees (i.e. the fees you pay when you want to convert your credit card points to airline miles). While...