Cathay, Malaysian or Singapore to park 250,000 miles?
Jan 6, 2016, 7:40 pm
#1
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Cathay, Malaysian or Singapore to park 250,000 miles?
I am not sure if I pick up the right forum to my question....
I have almost 1M points on HSBC (Malaysia) credit card, which can be converted to Asia Miles (Cathay), Enrich (Malaysian) or KirsFlyer (Singapore) at 1:4 rate.
I plan to use them for travels from Penang, Malaysia (where all these arlines fly) to destinations within south-east Asia and to Australia or Europe. I have no experience how difficult/easy is to get award tickets on said airlines and if there is a big difference in fees incurred with award tickets.
I would appreciate if someone would like to their share experience or could point me in to right forum. Thank you.
I have almost 1M points on HSBC (Malaysia) credit card, which can be converted to Asia Miles (Cathay), Enrich (Malaysian) or KirsFlyer (Singapore) at 1:4 rate.
I plan to use them for travels from Penang, Malaysia (where all these arlines fly) to destinations within south-east Asia and to Australia or Europe. I have no experience how difficult/easy is to get award tickets on said airlines and if there is a big difference in fees incurred with award tickets.
I would appreciate if someone would like to their share experience or could point me in to right forum. Thank you.
Jan 6, 2016, 10:37 pm
#3
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Easy. The answer is park them in MH -IF award space is the most critical item to you.
on MH Enrich, in Business, as long as you have D class revenue or L revenue in Economy - the redemption seat is yours at Saver (lowest) levels. You pay more for higher codes, but D and L are almost always available.
A similar (but not identical) scheme exists on Krisflyer, but you'll need X (in economy) and I (in business) to access these seats at saver levels. These aren't shared codes with revenue, which makes them harder to come by. Standard and Full awards book into codes shared with revenue classes but are very expensive.
on MH Enrich, in Business, as long as you have D class revenue or L revenue in Economy - the redemption seat is yours at Saver (lowest) levels. You pay more for higher codes, but D and L are almost always available.
A similar (but not identical) scheme exists on Krisflyer, but you'll need X (in economy) and I (in business) to access these seats at saver levels. These aren't shared codes with revenue, which makes them harder to come by. Standard and Full awards book into codes shared with revenue classes but are very expensive.
Jan 8, 2016, 5:28 pm
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