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Old Oct 31, 2014, 6:05 am
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I'm going to update this first post as more info flows in to create a 'master list' of all credit cards that offer a decent way of accruing miles - so please help out!

If you know of and/or use any other cards (or the ones already mentioned), please share your thoughts.

***ALL VALUES BELOW IN SINGAPORE DOLLARS (SGD)***
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In no particular order (apart from personal preference in terms of good-mileage opportunities):
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1. UOB PRVI Miles VISA, MasterCard, AMEX

VISA:
http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards...iles_visa.html
MasterCard:
http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards...astercard.html
Amex:
http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards...amex_card.html
http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards...ard/microsite/



Mileage accrual:
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, every S$10 gives 14 miles), and 2.4 miles for every $1 spent OVERSEAS (every $5 gives 12 miles).

Requirements: min. income $80,000 (not strict).
Cost: First year free, then S$256.80 for main, first two supplementary always free. Annual fee waiver for Amex card if you charge $50,000 or more in a year.
Miles conversion fee: $25 per conversion. UNI$ are combined in 1 cardholder's name/FIN Number/NRIC together for all UOB cards which earn UNI$.

Pros: Best mileage accrual rates for overseas spend only. 20,000 bonus miles and annual fee waiver with spend of $50,000 per year (both only for Amex card). $45 1-way airport transfer voucher for $1,000 overseas spend in a given quarter (Amex only).
Cons: AMEX not always accepted by merchants. Points allocated on every $5 spent, rounded down to next $5. Transfer in blocks of 5000 UNI$ points = 10,000 miles. Points are valid for 2 years (transfer before expiry and they will subsequently be valid for a further 3 years from the date of transfer to KrisFlyer).

2. UOB Preferred Platinum Visa


http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards..._platinum.html
http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards...visa_card.html


Mileage accrual: Earn 4 miles for every $1 spent using ONLY MOBILE CONTACTLESS every $5 gives 10 UNI$ which equal 20 miles). Same incredible mileage-earning ratio for internet shopping with certain restrictions (travel-related, utilities, etc.). Earn 0.4 mile for every $1 for regular, signature-based payments AND ORPHAN SPEND DUE TO $5 ROUNDING OR EXCEEDING THE BONUS U$2000 SPEND (every $5 gives 1 UNI$ which equal 2 miles).

Earning 4 miles/$ is limited to the first S$1110 spent during the per calendar month (via Mobile Contactless). 2,000UNI$ refers to the extra 9UNI$ and does not include the normal 1UNI$.(Stop when you notice you earn 3UNI$ (1 + bonus 2) for the last S$5 transaction. ($1110/5)x9=1998UNI$, hence the last S$5 transaction will earn 2 bonus UNI$. The total bonus UNI$ awarded to you from qualifying spend on Selected Online Transactions and Mobile Contactless Transactions is capped at UNI$2,000 for each calendar month. THE CAP IS ON THE 9 UNI$ BONUS NOT 10UNI$ TOTAL YOU GET WITH BASE OF U$1 PER $ SPEND

Keep in mind that some merchants offer different, non-mileage accruing awards with UOB cards which are called SMART$. Some popular merchants include Cold Storage, Guardian and Giant Supermarket, ToastBox and Starbucks. A full list of merchants where Mobile contactless transactions will NOT earn miles can be found here:
http://www.uob.com.sg/personal/cards...smartclub.html

Requirements: min. income $30,000 ($60,000 for foreigners).
Cost: First year free, then $192.60 for main and $96.30 for supplementary. Annual fee waived off easily.
Miles conversion fee: $25 per conversion, in blocks of 5000 UNI$=10,000 miles. UNI$ are combined in 1 cardholder's name for all UOB cards.

Pros: Incredible mileage accrual rates for Paywave transactions (not all merchants - some give SMART$ instead which are different rewards!) as well as internet transactions (some restrictions apply).
Cons: Points allocated on every $5 spent, rounded down to next $5. Transfer in blocks of 5000 UNI$ points = 10,000 miles. Points are valid for 2 years (transfer before expiry and they will subsequently be valid for a further 3 years from the date of transfer to KrisFlyer).

3. Citi PremierMiles MasterCard

https://www.citibank.com.sg/credit-cards/travel/premiermiles-card/?ecid=PSGONSGCCAENPM

Mileage accrual: Earn 1.2 miles for every $1 spent. Earn 2 miles for every $1 spent OVERSEAS. 10,000 bonus miles for each annual membership renewal.

Requirements: min. income $50,000 for VISA. Principal cardholder must be at least 21 years of age.
Cost: First year free, then $192.60 for VISA main, supplementary always free. Annual fee waiver available in exchange for forfeiting the 10,000renewal bonus.
Miles conversion fee: $25 per conversion.

Pros: Decent all-rounder, good for overseas spend. Points never expire. Bonus miles for annual card renewal. 11 frequent flyer programs & 3 hotel programs to choose from, including EVA Air - only 25,000 miles for 1 way Business Class within Asia!!
Cons: No miles awarded for EZ-Link & Transitlink transactions. Miles awarded per S$1. Cents not included. 1.2 miles/S$1. Transfer in blocks of 10,000 miles.

4. DBS Altitude VISA/AMEX

http://www.dbs.com/sg/personal/cards...e/default.aspx
http://www.dbs.com/sg/personal/cards...e/default.aspx



Mileage accrual: Earn 1.2 miles for every $1 spent (every $5 gives 3 DBS points which equal 6 miles). Earn 2 miles for every $1 spent OVERSEAS.

Requirements: min. income $80,000.
Cost: First year free, then $180 for main and $90 for supplementary. Annual fee waiver if you charge $25,000 or more in a year.
Miles conversion fee: S$26.75 per transfer, redeem 1700 DBS points to waive off.

Pros: Points never expire. No rounding down transaction amount to nearest $5 (calculation is done as follows: DBS points = 'transaction amount' divided by 5, multiply by 3, after that round down to nearest whole number. Minimum spend is S$1.67. Each DBS point = 2 miles). Earn 3 miles per S$1 spent on all online Flight and Hotel transactions (capped at S$5,000 per month). 10,000 miles renewal bonus if you have to pay card renewal fees.
Cons: All local spend now down to 1.2 miles/$ (since Dec 1, 2013). AMEX not always accepted by merchants. Transfer in blocks of 5000 DBS points = 10,000 miles (on the plus side points don't expire). Per transfer of S$26.75, redeem 1700 DBS points to waive off.

5. Maybank Horizon Platinum Visa

http://info.maybank2u.com.sg/persona...visa-card.aspx



Earn 3.2 air miles (8X TREATS Points) with every dollar spent on dining, petrol, taxi fares and hotel bookings at Agoda.com/horizon
Earn 2 air miles (5X TREATS Points) with every dollar spent on air tickets, travel packages and foreign currency transactions, with a minimal S$300 in a calendar month

Earn 0.4 mile for every $1 spent elsewhere (1 mile for every $2.50 spent).

Requirements: min. income $30,000 ($80,000 for foreigners).
Cost: $150 for main, supplementary always free. Unsure of any annual fee waiver conditions.
Miles conversion fee: In blocks of 5,000 points to 2000 Asia Miles or KrisFlyer. S$26.75 fee applies.

Pros: Great for ticket purchases and overseas spend. Complimentary access to selected VIP airport lounges when you charge a minimum of S$400 in a single transaction on air tickets or travel packages to your Card 3 months prior to the date of travel.
Cons: Great ONLY for ticket purchases and overseas spend. Points are valid for 1 year only, expire either on 30 June or 31 December of the same year if not Rewards Infinite member.

6. Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Ascend AMEX

https://www.americanexpress.com/sg/s...nd-credit-card



Mileage accrual: Earn 1.2 KrisFlyer miles for every S$1 spent on all your eligible purchases with your Card

Earn 2 KrisFlyer miles for every S$1 equivalent in foreign currency spent overseas on eligible purchases during June and December

Requirements: min. income $50,000 ($60,000 for foreigners). Principal cardholder must be over 21 years of age.
Cost: First year free, otherwise $256.80 for main, 2 supplementary cards always free (more available at $80.25 each). Annual fee cannot be waived unless you spend alot.
Miles conversion fee: None - your KrisFlyer miles are transferred to your account directly with no conversion fees or charges.

Pros: None, except for welcome offers (4 complimentary airport lounge access vouchers, one complimentary night with Millennium Hotels and Resorts).

Cons: Simply nothing special - there are better cards available for all types of purchases, including flight tickets, even with all of the bonuses above applied. AMEX not always accepted by merchants.

7. Citibank Rewards Card

http://www.citibank.com.sg/gcb/credi...CACRENCCHOCALM



Earn 10X Rewards (10 Rewards Points or 4 Miles for every S$1 spent) when you shop for clothes, bags and shoes or at departmental stores or online shopping websites, including SingTel & M1 online bill payment!

Pros: Transfer to 11 FFPs & 3 Hotel programs in blocks of 25,000 points=10,000 miles; S$25 fee.

Cons: Points awarded per S$1 spend. Cents not included. Cannot combined Thank You Points across cards.

8. DBS Woman's World MasterCard® Card

http://www.dbs.com.sg/personal/cards...astercard-card



10X Rewards for Online Retail Purchases
T&C Here: https://www.dbs.com.sg/iwov-resource...s_card_tnc.pdf

Pros: Men also can get this card!! DBS points are combined in 1 cardholder's name. No rounding down transaction amount to nearest $5 (calculation is done as follows: DBS points = 'transaction amount' divided by 5, multiply by 10, after that round down to nearest whole number. Minimum spend is S$1. Each DBS point = 2 miles).

Cons: DBS points are valid for 1 year based on card anniversary date. The additional 9X DBS Points for online retail spend in a calendar month will be awarded on the 16th of the next calendar month. If the above days are not working days, the Points will be awarded on the next working day. The additional 9X DBS Points are only applicable to the first S$2,000 online retail spend every calendar month.

9. OCBC Titanium Rewards Card

https://www.ocbc.com/personal-bankin...astercard.html

10x OCBC$ on your shopping Local & Overseas Shopping Transactions, Local & Overseas Department Store Transactions and Local & Overseas Online Transactions.
The remaining 9 OCBC$ will be posted to the Card Account by the end of the next calendar month

https://www.ocbc.com/assets/pdf/card...ons.pdf?rand=1
10,000 KrisFlyer miles requires OCBC$ 25000, For each conversion of OCBC$ to KrisFlyer miles a fee of S$25 will be charged

10. UOB Lady's Card
https://www.uob.com.sg/personal/card...ard/index.page

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Old Dec 30, 2015, 4:09 am
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Originally Posted by vsepr
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10x Citidollars with Citi Rewards Card!!

You have to check your Citidollars balance around 9.45am to 10am everyday, except Mondays and day after Public Holidays. If you check before that time, Citidollars are not awarded yet although the transaction is posted.
ic - was quite surprised to see 0 points awarded since someone managed to get 10X from it.. will probably check again tmr
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ic - was quite surprised to see 0 points awarded since someone managed to get 10X from it.. will probably check again tmr
It's either timing, or the banks have been reading the forums and acting on it.
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Old Dec 31, 2015, 7:42 am
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Seems the bonus points have posted for the Expedia/Citibank promotion.

Dec 31 2015 for all qualifying charges made at a Participating Expedia Website from Aug 1 to Oct 31 2015

I have 2 eligible transactions but only 1 posted Dec 18th. Messaged them to investigate the other transaction why it was missed out.
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Old Jan 1, 2016, 10:22 pm
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DBS Womens World Mastercard

The DBS Womens World Mastercard has to be bumped up in the list of best cards for earning miles. Confirmed they earn 4 miles (10x DBS points) for all online spend including those coming from Paypal, Uber and even flight or hotel bookings. So far only expedia or agoda promotions give higher miles, but they come with specific cards and many rules.
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Old Jan 1, 2016, 10:24 pm
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Originally Posted by spk307
The DBS Womens World Mastercard has to be bumped up in the list of best cards for earning miles. Confirmed they earn 4 miles (10x DBS points) for all online spend including those coming from Paypal, Uber and even flight or hotel bookings. So far only expedia or agoda promotions give higher miles, but they come with specific cards and many rules.
And those rules, for some people (i.e. me), mean that the vast majority of my flight bookings do not count anyhow.
(I am flying, for revenue tickets this year UA, BA, AA, EK, LH so far. None of these qualify under the citi/dbs promotion.)
EDIT: I am also flying CX on one bulk fare that had to be booked through a specific TA.

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Old Jan 2, 2016, 4:48 am
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Originally Posted by spk307
The DBS Womens World Mastercard has to be bumped up in the list of best cards for earning miles. Confirmed they earn 4 miles (10x DBS points) for all online spend including those coming from Paypal, Uber and even flight or hotel bookings. So far only expedia or agoda promotions give higher miles, but they come with specific cards and many rules.
If it works well for you within its restrictions, then that's great. Keep in mind of the $2k limit per month, so chances are you'll hit the cap on some months especially when you are booking trips. After using this card for a while, I have now branched off with other cards to maximize my earnings.
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Old Jan 2, 2016, 5:15 am
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Hmm if DBS Womens works for Uber that is interesting. I'll switch my card to that one then. Thanks.
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Old Jan 2, 2016, 10:00 am
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Originally Posted by spk307
The DBS Womens World Mastercard has to be bumped up in the list of best cards for earning miles. Confirmed they earn 4 miles (10x DBS points) for all online spend including those coming from Paypal, Uber and even flight or hotel bookings. So far only expedia or agoda promotions give higher miles, but they come with specific cards and many rules.
What about topping up EZLink? Is that considred online like Uber?
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Hmm if DBS Womens works for Uber that is interesting. I'll switch my card to that one then. Thanks.
You can refer to the crowdsourced spreadsheet in my signature.
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Originally Posted by spk307
Confirmed they earn 4 miles (10x DBS points) for all online spend including those coming from Paypal, Uber and even flight or hotel bookings.
That's not entirely true as some online booking of hotels and flights are processed offline, use at your own risk.
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Originally Posted by lcpteck
That's not entirely true as some online booking of hotels and flights are processed offline, use at your own risk.
I'm not quite sure how that would be the case for flights?
(all of my flights have posted as online spending, even ones using corporate TA/OTA/direct from airlines.)
As well, from a regulatory perspective, I do believe that IATA rules mandate ticket number be included on the credit card statement, and that is generated online.
(my AMEX statements even have the full itinerary on them, i.e.
DELTA AIR LINES INC. TH CANADA
ROUTING: FROM: VANCOUVER INTERN
TO: MINNEAPOLIS INTERN CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: WASHINGTON DULLES CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: MINNEAPOLIS INTERN CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: VANCOUVER INTERNATI CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TICKET NUMBER: 006xxxxxxxxxx PASSENGER NAME: (censored)
Total of Payment Activity)
It also shows as an online transaction (and transaction location is DL's Montreal office, rather than the location of the travel agency.)

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Old Jan 3, 2016, 2:39 am
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Originally Posted by AA_EXP09
As well, from a regulatory perspective, I do believe that IATA rules mandate ticket number be included on the credit card statement, and that is generated online.
(my AMEX statements even have the full itinerary on them, i.e.
DELTA AIR LINES INC. TH CANADA
ROUTING: FROM: VANCOUVER INTERN
TO: MINNEAPOLIS INTERN CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: WASHINGTON DULLES CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: MINNEAPOLIS INTERN CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: VANCOUVER INTERNATI CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TICKET NUMBER: 006xxxxxxxxxx PASSENGER NAME: (censored)
Total of Payment Activity)
It also shows as an online transaction (and transaction location is DL's Montreal office, rather than the location of the travel agency.)
AA_EXP09 whilst I never had an online ticket purchase (be it an airline website direct or OTA) not come out as an online purchase for HK card promos, it's certainly possible to buy tickets over the phone (e.g. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...l#post22151107 ) and have the transaction still include the ticket number - I have a ticket from UA arranged by my travel agent but with UA billing and ticket number line item on my credit card.
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Is there any such CC with earning SQ Miles for German Residents?
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Old Jan 3, 2016, 7:50 am
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Originally Posted by AA_EXP09
I'm not quite sure how that would be the case for flights?
(all of my flights have posted as online spending, even ones using corporate TA/OTA/direct from airlines.)
As well, from a regulatory perspective, I do believe that IATA rules mandate ticket number be included on the credit card statement, and that is generated online.
(my AMEX statements even have the full itinerary on them, i.e.
DELTA AIR LINES INC. TH CANADA
ROUTING: FROM: VANCOUVER INTERN
TO: MINNEAPOLIS INTERN CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: WASHINGTON DULLES CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: MINNEAPOLIS INTERN CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TO: VANCOUVER INTERNATI CARRIER: DL CLASS: X
TICKET NUMBER: 006xxxxxxxxxx PASSENGER NAME: (censored)
Total of Payment Activity)
It also shows as an online transaction (and transaction location is DL's Montreal office, rather than the location of the travel agency.)
I have encountered before on cheaptickets.sg which I booked tickets online on 2 separate occasions that 1 ticket was charged online and the other was offline (as found out by my bank). I did receive the e-ticket after purchase, so not sure how they do it at the backend.

I've never seen e-ticket numbers on my online statements though. Maybe only shows for Amex Issued Cards?
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Old Jan 3, 2016, 6:37 pm
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Originally Posted by blueeagle3
Is there any such CC with earning SQ Miles for German Residents?
You can check for German Amex cards if Membership rewards points transfer to SQ. Normally they do, but different countries have different partners at times.
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