I've made very clear the point that economy class redemptions do not make sense. And that's just common sense. If you want to redeem your miles for economy class flights you're better off using a cashback card and using the cashback to buy economy class tickets. Because the 1-2...
Until 30 Sept, the DBS Altitude AMEX card had a very generous 50% bonus miles promotion. Upon card approval, you would earn 1.8 miles for local spend, 3 miles for overseas spend and 4.5 miles for online hotel and flight bookings for the first 6 months (as opposed to...
So UOB sent out a mailer to all its PRVI cardholders informing them of a promotion where card members can earn 5 miles per $1 spent between 23 Oct and 31 Dec. Registration is required.
This sounds amazing, but really isn't.
A minimum spending of $1,000 on overseas shopping and...
EDIT: Revised guidance to this article now exists. Please refer to this article for the latest version.
I said before that it doesn't make sense to redeem Krisflyer miles for Star Alliance partner awards. That still holds true. Krisflyer's partner chart is structured in such a way that the greatest...
Over the weekend Citibank Singapore updated its online rewards platform to bring it in line with the rest of the world.
Points are now called "ThankYou" points. Fortunately, nothing has been devalued- what was before is still today.
With this change comes 3 additional FFPs you can redeem miles with
FlyingBlue
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Well, in a classic case of why we can't have nice things, the DBS Altitude Visa's sign up bonus has been cut to 5,000 miles with $800 spend within 30 days of signing up, provided you're among the first 500 applicants each month.
I always hate these limited availability promotions-...
So I have a confession to make. All this while I've given little to no coverage to one of the best cards to use for overseas spend.
I'm not quite sure how it slipped past me, but now that I know about it you can be sure it's going into my...