i bought one way AA to Nagoya, seems like have to redeem Osaka - KUL in full miles. So happy this morning saw this on FB thought it's their yearly 50% promo then can buy at 10am sharp somemore 300 cash back, mana tau

EM should be there la, more likely lesser and lesser miles promo

2013 redeem 10% more miles promo also didn't repeat  

Bro Gen-X,

Enrich Miles Program will be stopped? Also, when do you think there'll be promotion from enrich for route to Europe? I'm interested with flight to Copenhagen, Denmark. Singapore Airline has direct flight, but not MAS

Thought I'll mention it here

Been planning a family trip for 2A, 1C and 1 infant to europe during raya break.
Since I didn't have enough enrich points to do full redemption for 2A 1C. I purchased 1A 1C for upgrade and 1A redemption. Note: infant ticket has to be purchased outright. Good thing it only costs 10% of business ticket.

The cost to upgrade increased slightly actually, it costs RM600 per person for the return upgrade. The CS mentioned it's based on the difference between economy taxes and the full redemption taxes.

The most important conclusion is, my total cost for the flight is slightly less than booking entire family on economy flight, but entire family is going on business flight 
Thank you very much, various credit card companies 

OT
Just to inform that MAS is having tiket sales NOW till jan 24th...browse their website

browse the website but cannot find..
care to share the link?

Hi Bro Gen-X

Here are the comparison I did for EM vs Krisflyer vs AsiaMiles (KUL - LHR Roundtrip business class)

Frequent Flyer	Miles Required
Enrich Miles	110,000
Krisflyer	160,000
Asia Miles	120,000
From	To
Kuala Lumpur	London Heathrow

Conclusion : EM is more worth for our buck.

Source :

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/flightawardfinder
http://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/ppsclub-...age-calculator/
http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/enri...a-airlines.html

SQ KF is always quite a bit more expensive when compared to MH but they have the same 15% discount plus their ability to book on Star Alliance is much more reasonable compared to Enrich and OneWorld. I don't mind splurging on SQ KF once in awhile, SQ suites/first class is awesome.

The biggest advantage of Asia Miles/Cathay is availability. I have gotten 5 business class seats on Cathay using miles personally, useful when I'm flying with family; and between slightly to significantly lower taxes depending on where you fly.

To me it's not so clear cut and depends a lot on where I want to fly and how many people are flying with me.

I'm far from being a sifu But for Cathay Pacific, the best way to check availability is via the British Airways Executive Club website.

1. If you haven't yet, sign up for Executive Club
2. Login, under Avios, select Book with Avios
3. choose your segments. Obviously for CX you want to check KUL-HKG and HKG-LHR separately.
4. As an aside, booking far ahead using CX and Asia Miles is a hit and miss for popular locations eg. LHR and CDG
4a. CX will open up award availability closer to departure date, usually you'll find much better availability less than 3 weeks out and this includes first class
4b. Asia Miles also allows you to waitlist if there's no availability
4c. When it says "Available" that means there's more than 4 seats open I think. As I've mentioned I've booked 5 business class on JFK-HKG-KUL and LAX-HKG-KUL previously.
5. Once you have availability from #4 call Asia Miles and book. I have never done this part using Asia Miles, but have used it with Avios and AAdvantage miles. Tell them the specific segments you want.

Hope this helps.

Not yet. Just an announcement. Internal email. I work under MH Group.

The offer seems up here...

it's back

Guys, bad news.

I am here at one u To redeem enrich miles with 10% bonus. The CS imform me that all redemption effective will be subjective to GST.

Effective 4770 TP for 1000 Enrich Miles now!!!

i rugi 6.3 million TP la

Enough for return trip from kl to paris d

damn maybank for these kind of stupid stunt

gonna potong it d

Redeem some enrich miles throuGH phone with Alliance, no mention of GST. I did not have sufficient pts if they impose gst.

Can redeem via phone for Alliance? Last time I did, they still asked me to fax thru the form.
I just faxed over the form ytd, running down my points to almost 0.
If kena 6% GST gonna loose 13,320 points 

Anyone has the link to the revised redemption schedule/table for Enrich?
Can't seem to access it as the website tells me " you do not have sufficient points' or something to that effect.

Reply is a bit late but the best way to redeem MH First Class on their A380 is via Avios or AAdvantage miles, not Enrich. I just checked and there's one open First Class seat on MH20 to CDG for only 90k Avios + US$23 (one way). If I called AAdvantage they'd sell me that ticket for 67.5k AAdvantage miles.

If you have Asia Miles you can also book One World partner airlines (including MH) so that's another option which is more valid for most people with Maybank Treatpoints or Citibank points and makes more sense than Enrich.

Anyway like some others here, I've given up on Enrich and am converting my TP to Asia Miles or possibly KF for the future. Good bye Enrich.

There's really nothing to it You're welcome to post this on your blog by the way. Note I've not tried the second or last option personally, but that last one is definitely on my todo list this year.

Award ticket on Cathay, British Airways, Qantas, Dragon Air (online)

1. Login to your Asia Miles account

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/homepage

2. Go to the flight redemption

https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_HK/book...redemption.html

3. Select the your origin and destination airports, dates, and booking class. Then click Search

Some options are next to impossible to get due to popularity. LHR is one of them where Economy and Business is almost always sold out. In this case Premium Economy might be an option.

4. Select flight options, book, pay with points.
Award ticket using Asia Miles on One World partners (via form) for one single airline. Works for MH, QR, JL and a few others

1. You need to check availability via Avios, then book using Asia Miles. Login to your Avios account

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/redee...cclub/_gf/en_us

2. Check availability segment by segment. Not a big deal if you're flying Malaysia eg. KUL-LHR is just that. However to choose Qatar KUL-LHR is KUL-DOH and DOH-LHR. Similarly KUL-JFK on Japan is KUL-NRT and NRT-JFK

3. Make sure there's enough time between flights, choose a minimum of 1.5 hours, maximum of 23 hours 59 minutes

4. Note these segments down and the available seats on the Avios site. Once you have them:

5. Go to Asia Miles

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/homepage

6. Find out how many miles those flights will cost. Use the Add Sector to plug in individual sectors.

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/flig...t=RHRedeemMiles

7. Fill in the form with the correct segments and submit it.

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/flights/form
To truly maximize Asia Miles with multi-carrier stopovers & open jaws

1. Asia Miles allows 5 stopovers, 2 open jaws for a multi-carrier award.

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/charts#4

2. The specifics are very open but you could technically do a simple itinerary like the following:

KUL-NRT on JL (stopover in Tokyo)
NRT-SFO on JL (stopover in San Francisco)
SFO-JFK on AA (destination New York)

BOS-HKG on CX (stopover in Hong Kong)
HKG-KUL on CX

which is just 3 stopovers and 1 open jaw over roughly 20,000 miles flown which would cost 95k Asia Miles in economy or 140k Asia Miles in business class.

3. As usual find availability per segment on either Avios (see example above) or Qantas (google up how to do this). Unfortunately this cannot be done online, but once you've discovered the available segments you can do it over the phone.

Devaluation factor ended-up me convert all my TPs to Poh Kong vouchers last mth.

There's really nothing to it You're welcome to post this on your blog by the way. Note I've not tried the second or last option personally, but that last one is definitely on my todo list this year.

Award ticket on Cathay, British Airways, Qantas, Dragon Air (online)

1. Login to your Asia Miles account

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/homepage

2. Go to the flight redemption

https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_HK/book...redemption.html

3. Select the your origin and destination airports, dates, and booking class. Then click Search

Some options are next to impossible to get due to popularity. LHR is one of them where Economy and Business is almost always sold out. In this case Premium Economy might be an option.

4. Select flight options, book, pay with points.
Award ticket using Asia Miles on One World partners (via form) for one single airline. Works for MH, QR, JL and a few others

1. You need to check availability via Avios, then book using Asia Miles. Login to your Avios account

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/redee...cclub/_gf/en_us

2. Check availability segment by segment. Not a big deal if you're flying Malaysia eg. KUL-LHR is just that. However to choose Qatar KUL-LHR is KUL-DOH and DOH-LHR. Similarly KUL-JFK on Japan is KUL-NRT and NRT-JFK

3. Make sure there's enough time between flights, choose a minimum of 1.5 hours, maximum of 23 hours 59 minutes

4. Note these segments down and the available seats on the Avios site. Once you have them:

5. Go to Asia Miles

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/homepage

6. Find out how many miles those flights will cost. Use the Add Sector to plug in individual sectors.

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/flig...t=RHRedeemMiles

7. Fill in the form with the correct segments and submit it.

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/flights/form
To truly maximize Asia Miles with multi-carrier stopovers & open jaws

1. Asia Miles allows 5 stopovers, 2 open jaws for a multi-carrier award.

https://www.asiamiles.com/am/en/redeem/charts#4

2. The specifics are very open but you could technically do a simple itinerary like the following:

KUL-NRT on JL (stopover in Tokyo)
NRT-SFO on JL (stopover in San Francisco)
SFO-JFK on AA (destination New York)

BOS-HKG on CX (stopover in Hong Kong)
HKG-KUL on CX

which is just 3 stopovers and 1 open jaw over roughly 20,000 miles flown which would cost 95k Asia Miles in economy or 140k Asia Miles in business class.

3. As usual find availability per segment on either Avios (see example above) or Qantas (google up how to do this). Unfortunately this cannot be done online, but once you've discovered the available segments you can do it over the phone.

Searching for award flights

1. There are 3 major airline alliances today, One World (including MH Enrich and CX Asia Miles), Star Alliance (including SQ KF) and Skyteam

2. For One World, Avios (mentioned above) is one way to do a search. Qantas is another. For Star Alliance, United's MileagePlus works well as does ANA. These are free, but may not be optimal when searching across date ranges.

3. Alternatively there are others eg. AwardNexus, KVS and ExpertFlyer. All are paid options and allow a lot more flexibility than the free ones.

4. Specifically for Asia Miles and to a lesser extent Enrich, Awardnexus is an search tool to search for CX or other One World awards, it's much easier than poking around Avios or Qantas websites. It's not free but with a flyertalk membership you can receive free points for a limited number of searches.

https://awardnexus.com/

Award availability on CX with Asia Miles

1. For all routes, CX will release award seats 360 days in advance primarily. I believe it's typically 2 biz seats and 1 first class seats per flight which are open for award booking in the beginning almost 1 year in advance.

2. At roughly 7-14 days before the flight, more business/first class seats are open depending on whether or not they're sold. Finally at about 24-72 hours before the flight all except 1 seat in business/first are available for award booking. Note this may not apply to popular routes (LHR/CDG/LAX/JFK) but I've seen this frequently enough.

3. Asia Miles does allow you to waitlist on an award ticket on a Cathay flight, this is a big advantage over what you can get on Cathay via Avios or other OneWorld points.

Rather than having separate discussions, why not rename this particular subtopic to Frequent Flyer programs, have particular tags for Enrich (EM?), Krisflyer (KF), Asia Miles (AM) and others. Citibank for example transfers also to Avios which I quite like for certain redemptions.

Best to leave the first post for deals, howtos etc.