Yeah it's 45,000 miles, I think shuigao's calculator broke. :D

Essentially, many strategies you read about in US blogs and articles are either not applicable to Singapore, or applicable in a greatly reduced effectiveness.

Specific to SQ, mileage runs are as rare as hitting 4D. SQ's really cheap fares are practically always 10% mileage accrual rate.

Specific to credit card sign-ups, we don't get those crazy spend $3k, get 50,000 miles bonuses that US cards get.

I can now confirm that they are in a separate pool. Got conned by phone lady liao (sadface). Miles swiped on PM Amex vs on PM Visa accrue to their own separate pools. I will assume that redemption also needs to be separate (with its' own $25 fee).

That is correct, points earned for Citibank Cards are always in separate pools (regardless if they're in the same currency type; CitiMiles or Citi$). The question you have to ask them is whether can you combine the 2 pools (Visa CitiMiles and Amex CitiMiles) together into one and whether there are any charges for doing so. Citi$ was possible before not sure about now (it was stated in the T&Cs somewhere). CitiMiles wasn't but not sure about now as well. Maybe you can call Citibank and let us know?

Better yet is someone go read through the T&Cs. ;)

Thanks for enlightening that it's a different mechanism that can't be replicated in a similar fashion. I shall focus more on the essential steps for now :) have a good day.

Ez-link
 

I was following on the ez-link top up option via credit card to earn miles. But I'm kind of lost at this stage because the many options I thought would work, have now been reported by members that the options have been removed by the respective bank. Can some kind soul guide me the current method u all are using please ? Thanks a lot !

as of July 2015 - I was still able to t/f my Rewards citi$ to prestige.. but they seemed reluctant to do it and they kept reminding me that this is a special arrangement by virtue of my Citi Prestige card. Took more than 1 week before the transfer was executed.

as for citimiles, I have not tried it yet.

DBS Altitude Visa/Amex now says you earn 3 miles per $1 on all ONLINE flight and hotel bookings.

Nice, but do keep in mind that not every booking or reservation made online via an app or website gets processed as an online transaction by the merchant / vendor / provider ... For example, a hotel booking via Starwood.com or other chains will likely be processed offline even for an advance purchase rate where you get charged immediately.

DBS has this passage in the T&Cs in accordance with that:

Online Transactions shall mean retail transactions made via the internet and processed by the respective merchants/ acquirers as an online transaction type through the networks. DBS Bank Ltd (the “DBS”) determines an online transaction based on system indicators. These indicators are decided by the merchant and their bank, and passed to DBS when the transaction is posted to the card.

So be careful what you book where. YMMV.

UOB PRVI Miles American Express Card is currently giving 3 miles per S$ for ALL SQ, Silkair and SQ KrisShop purchases.

SQ award flight can't. But other ffp bug tix can

I did change ffp number on an award flight once but did not get anything. Any reported airlines where this works?

Me too!

I noticed this on the wiki at the top of this thread for the UOB PRVI Miles VISA / MC / AMEX:
"From 15 May 2015, the earn rate will be 1.4 miles for every $1 spent in multiples of S$10 (every multiple of S$5 gives 6 to 7 miles due to 3.5 UNI$ rounding off...)"

Don't quite understand this statement... can whoever updated the wiki (or anyone who understood) please explain?

$10 get 14 miles.

$5 get 6 miles, due to 3.5 UNI$ round down to 3 UNI$.

$95 get 66.5 ~ 66 UNI$ = 132 miles or every $5 get 6.947 miles and so on.......

UOB is darn sneaky!