Visa Infinite cards are not all by invitation. It depends on the respective banks.

The requirements and annual fees:

1. Standard Chartered Priority Banking Visa Infinite
- Be a Priority Banking customer with Asset Under Management (AUM) of RM250,000
- Annual Fee RM800, waived with annual spending of RM10,000

2. Citi Prestige World Elite MasterCard
- Annual income requirement of RM200,000
- Annual Fee RM1,000
- Even if you are a Citigold customer, you still need an annual income of RM200,000 to apply

3. UOB Privilege Banking Visa Infinite
- Be a Privilege Banking customer with AUM of RM500,000. Not sure if higher AUM required to be invited for the VI card
- Annual Fee RM1,800

4. Maybank World MasterCard
- Annual income requirement of RM240,000
- Annual Fee RM1,000, waived with annual spending of RM120,000

5. CIMB Visa Infinite i
- Either annual income requirement of RM1 million or AUM of RM1 million
- No Annual Fee

6. Alliance Visa Infinite
- Either annual income requirement of RM150,000 or be a Privilege Banking customer with AUM of RM200,000
- Annual Fee RM800, waived with annual spending of RM30,000 and waived for Privilege Banking customer

To answer your question, I'd say the Alliance Visa Infinite would be the easiest to be approved, both in terms of annual income requirement and by AUM with the bank.

The card info I gave above pertains to the Citi Prestige World Elite MasterCard, which grants unlimited Priority Pass Lounge access.

The Citibank PremierMiles Visa Signature which you mentioned, however, only grants 2 complimentary entries to Priority Pass Lounges worldwide per Calendar year. It does grant unlimited access to the Plaza Premium Lounges in KLIA, Senai and Langkawi airports though.

The annual fee for the PremierMiles is RM600, easily waivable, and the annual income requirement is RM60,000, compared to the Citi Prestige's RM200,000.

I'm not sure about that as I haven't used the Senai PPL before.

According to Priority Pass website - Location: Airside - after Security Screening on the 1st Floor, turn right and then take the next right again. The Lounge is located next to the Tourist Information desk.

Is the Senai airport layout similar to Kuching International Airport's whereby the departure hall is shared for domestic and international flights, despite having separate entry points?

I see. Thanks for the confirmation.

I believe you can get a waiver as long as your card is active. I did not charge much to my Citibank PM but I just used it every month. Anyway, I've cancelled mine earlier this month.

I'm not too familiar with Alliance Premium Debit Card, but if you are asking whether you can use 2 different cards to access KLIA with a friend, yes you can. My personal experience is that Malaysian Plaza Premium Lounges accept this practice, however, lounges in Singapore do not.

I'm not familiar with Alliance Platinum Card, but I gather from the Alliance Bank website that it grants unlimited complimentary access to the Plaza Premium Lounge at KLIA only.

Firstly, I'm not saying it's not possible and you can express your interest, but the CIMB Enrich World MasterCard is by invitation only.

Secondly, if you are solely looking for complimentary Golden Lounge access and do not gain much from the card's other benefits, it would not be a cost effective way to enjoy complimentary lounge access. You only get 2 Golden Lounge access per annum at an annual fee of RM888, which can only be fully waived with a minimum annual card spend of RM500,000.

Unfortunately, PPL Kuching has not been accepted on the list of Priority Pass lounges. So I can't get complimentary access using my Priority Pass.

The last time I asked 3 or 4 years ago, the PPL staff told me I can only choose either one of the lounges using the same card on the same day, but not both. @@

UOB Preferred Platinum's annual fee is cheaper at RM198. However, it has the requirement of at least 1 swipe per month for the last 3 months, and lounge entries are subject to a quota of 1,200 per month for UOB Preferred Platinum cardmembers on first-come first-served basis.

RHB Platinum, on the other hand, has an annual fee of RM500 but only allows 4 complimentary entries per calendar year. That is to say if you are maintaining this card for the sole purpose of Plaza Premium Lounge access, you'd effectively be paying RM137.50 per entry assuming no waiver of annual fee and no offset of service tax. Walk-in entries only cost RM128 for the 2-hour package.

This post has been edited by Explorer II: Jun 26 2013, 03:09 PM

Yea, I guess so, with the annual fee waiver. By the way, would you know whether it'd be easy to request for annual fee waiver for subsequent years?

I see. Enjoy your hunt then.

The only lounge at Singapore Changi Airport under Plaza Premium Lounge network would be The Green Market at Terminal 2, ie, PremierMiles does not grant access to lounges at Terminals 1 and 3. MAS uses Terminal 2 whereas AirAsia uses Terminal 1.

You mean Skyview Lounge? Yea, too bad. That's one of the better Priority Pass Lounges.

PPL Kuching International Airport has finally joined Priority Pass.
So have the 2 PPL at KK International Airport.



This post has been edited by Explorer II: Jul 4 2013, 10:57 AM

Apparently, out of the 15,667 complimentary access offered to HSBC Premier WMC cardmembers commencing 8 January 2013, 12,974 entries remain as at 19 April 2013, after which date the offer was open to HSBC VS cardmembers too. Wondering how many entries remain at this point in time.