Slightly off-track.

DBS has a promotion to win Suite class to New York, London, Sydney, Paris, Shanghai.

Here's my thinking
- Suite Class will be extended to New York / Paris / Shanghai
- Draw in Feb and Travel from March onwards

Does booking the old suite class make sense on these routes (hoping that either there will be new / retrofitted A380's for suite class for these routes given how difficult it is to book suite class in the new A380 currently.

Shanghai is announced to get new Suites together with Zurich in the second half of 2018. Any other route is pure speculation and there might be delays before new routes are added.

Old Suites is still a great product and if you win tickets for free, shouldn't be any issue.

Thanks, the email mailer was hyping up the new suites so I reckon it could be a good marketing launch pad for DBS/SIA and of course the luck of the draw to if we really get lucky for new suite class.

Hey guys is there any cap on this Citibank ApplePay promo for the Rewards cards - I checked the T&Cs and it doesnt seem to mention any cap for the rewards cards.

Reason I'm asking is that I'm overseas and I'm charging everything via ApplePay but the points are don't seem to be posting even after 6+ days. The transactions reflect on the app in 1 day and take another 1-2 days to go out of pending, and the amounts spent do show up in the 'current balance'. However the points seem to be in limbo.

I guess it's better that it hasnt posted yet, versus posting not at 20X. But I don't want to end up spending $5K before realising I hit some sort of cap.

thanks for the help!

There is no cap. Give more time for the points to post.

Thanks for the reply, points showed up a couple hours after my last post. 20X =)

It will cap you if you hit the S$12K.

I think you should use the Citi PremierMiles which would give you 4 miles per dollar during this promotion so long as the transaction is in SGD.

I had CPM and applied for CRV and it arrived after 3 days or so. Suspect that if you don't have CPM but do have CRV that you could apply and also get it quickly.

The OCBC Titanium Rewards card offers 4mpd for all contactless payments (incl. Apple Pay). It has an annual cap of S$12k for this earning rate but its Blue and Pink cards have individual caps, So you have a total of S$24k to use up there. This earning rate is also valid for transactions in foreign currency. Then you have the UOB Visa Signature card, which offers 4mpd for a min. spend of S$1k and max of S$2k in foreign currency spend in a statement cycle (regardless of payment method). With these three cards a majority of your USD 30K spend will be covered.

Do you have both, the Visa and MasterCard versions of Citi Rewards? If not, then you can use the S$12K limit of the one you don't have to get 4 mpd. The landing page for the MasterCard version has been taken down, but you can still apply for it via a referral link. Let me know if you'd like me to PM you one.

Unrelated but what on earth are you planning to buy at $30k???

Thanks, great suggestion. The purchase isn't urgent... so can wait... unless it's snapped up by someone else!