Be very careful about opening a new account. I can tell you from personal experience that once an affinity account is associated with a particular points.com account, for all eternity it can NEVER be associated with any other points.com account. They say this is for "security reasons" and believe me, I have taken it to the mat with them and they claim there is absolutely no way to manually override this.

For example, say you have points.com account A and you have AsiaMiles account X. You cannot open points.com account B and associate it to AsiaMiles account X. No matter if you either (i) remove AsiaMiles account X from the profile of points.com account A -or- (ii) completely cancel points.com account A.

So, you would be left with orphan miles in AsiaMiles account X (unless well planned).

Unless you are willing to open *all new* affinity accounts, do not count on the strategy of just opening a "new" points.com account.