I called the number at the back of my MBB credit card and enquired. First call, they told me to contact Asia Miles, which I did. Asia Miles told me no, I had to talk to MBB so I called again and a third+fourth time. Every time I was politely told that they will call me back with an answer. They never did. It was on the last call that they informed that I was not on the list of cardmembers eligible for the bonus miles. They also kept repeating about the 1 million mile cap in the t&c. I said the cap was irrelevant as I redeemed so early and that I thought it was extremely unfair for them to induce people to redeem with juicy promises of 33% bonuses and give no credible explanation when no bonus miles are awarded.

It's a hit and miss. Welcome to Malaysia

Haha...true. I have had better luck for instance when MBB converted TreatPoints from my other credit cards at the same 4500 to 1000 rate as my Maybank 2 Cards Premier. Enrich also credited nearly 11k miles for one leg of my redeemed KCH-LHR flight in Feb so that was a bonus.

On a side note, anyone ever redeemed First Class for London or Paris on MAS? The Enrich redemption portal shows 442k miles required This is a bit of a joke when all you need is 220k for Cathay First Class.

I stand corrected. I just called CS. They did charge me 6% GST. It cost me 882,450 TreatPoints for the 185k Enrich Miles instead of 832,500 TreatPoints.

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

Many thanks to bro Gen-X for his tireless efforts. Most of us I am sure have benefited from his articles. Any of you following Chris Guillebeau? I have benefited plenty from his writings as well, especially in terms of "manufactured spending" ie the "art" of spending/accumulating treatpoints without actually spending. I heard that MAS will be cancelling its flights to Amsterdam and Frankfurt soon so Enrich Miles will basically be useful only for London and Paris flights. Krisflyer/AsiaMiles henceforth?

Yes thank you Gen-X for lots of good tips.

Manufactured spend is a science, unfortunately not so easy to do cheaply in Malaysia. I've been on flyertalk for years and the tips there are a lot better than what you'd get from the typical blogger, highly recommend going straight to the source.

My TP have been going to KF for the past few months, have not touched Enrich for awhile and won't be going back due to the devaluation

Thanks tishaban for the pointer, I have lurked in flyertalk on and off. I like Chris' writings and would love to duplicate his feat of visiting every country in the world via 'travel hacking' (I've still got 75% more to go lol).

I've stopped converting to KF after a poor experience on their A380 Business Class from JFK-SIN. Their seats were too wide and too short for me. Converted some to AsiaMiles but have yet to redeem any flights.

May I know how best to claim the Enrich miles for tickets purchased for kids? Seems like only can earn points in their own Enrich accounts? If so, is it easy for them to transfer their points to my account later?

It will cost 4 sen /1 EM + rm40 fee to transfer ur kids EM to yours..

Would like to know more about earning miles. For example, if fly to Hong Kong economy class return air fare about RM1k, how many miles are earned after the trip? I saw this chart about accrual 200%, 150% etc but accrue what?

For expensive tickets eg. first class, business class, full fare economy accrual is 100-200% or more of the actual miles flown. So assuming that KL to Seoul is say 3,500 miles one way, you get 3,500 Enrich/KF/etc miles if you buy an economy class ticket that accrues 100%, 7,000 miles one way if you buy a first class ticket that accrues 200% and everything else in between.

For most people flying cheapest economy class tickets though, you accrue 100% or 50% or even 0% Enrich miles on the cheapest tickets. That's what it means in a nutshell. Malaysia airlines has not looked into how much RM you spend, Singapore has started.

Miles depends on flight distance and class NOT how much u pay.

e.g from my last monday flight

flight distance from KUL to NRT is 3358 miles

Business class J is 175% accrual - U'll get 5876 Elite miles and 5876 Enrich miles (Gold member will received 6716 Enrich Miles)

same as other class, only the accrual is different :
Economy class O (promo) is 25% - so u'll get 3358*0.25 elite mile & 3358*0.25 enrich miles for each sector.

Thanks guys. Have a clearer picture now. Seems like unless one frequently purchases business/first class tickets, earning miles are not easy especially those economy promo tickets. Was thinking of opening Enrich accounts for family members to earn some points and later transfer and consolidate. Knowing the slow accumulation rate and transfer costs now, not much incentive really. Might be better off just trying to earn miles from Maybank 2 Premier credit card spending.

Getting worse

MAS to discontinue flights to Frankfurt

Hi all sifus,

Anyone has experience redeem flight for Qatar Airway using Enrich miles? How can that be done and is it worth the miles? Am looking for flight from Bangkok to CPH. Thanks

UPDATE: Ignore this. I had found information in MAS website.

FYI, in order to redeem other OneWorld airline flights using Enrich, you have to call Malaysia Airlines ticketing counters or call centres. That also means there wouldn't be 15% discount. As I read earlier someone call multiple time in order to get lowest airport tax, I think I will do the same to try my luck

This post has been edited by nestahng: Apr 20 2015, 06:55 AM

They also going to downgrade for Paris... From A380 to 777 soon

No more enrich or mas for me.

but they have a fleet of 6 A380, launching new route?