most likely rent out to turkish airlines..
there was a newest about that but nothing concrete so far..

Same here

wtf.. don't drop a380 for paris man.... i'm collecting my points for a trip around europe and it all hangs on flying the a380 to paris...

If they drop a380 to paris, i'm gonna just blow my points to australia and fly emirates to paris..

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.


This post has been edited by tishaban: Apr 20 2015, 07:42 PM

Bro, can you pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee spoon feed me on Asia Miles by writing a tutorial

If yes, give me exclusive rights to your tutorial by being a guest columnist at my blog

Or maybe you give me in point forms and all the links you know so I can go study them and be an expert like you ... hopefully.

This post has been edited by Gen-X: Apr 20 2015, 09:12 PM

I'm still abit confused about asia miles. When i check on the web, i get like 3 different type of amounts. are you guaranteed a seat while exchaging on the lowest tier? or is it not confirmed and require waiting list?

I checked through the award finder last week (had about 100k asia miles to redeem) but i see all the business class flight from kul to cdg is full.. even up to 1 week before and after the dates i want to fly..

This post has been edited by raist86: Apr 20 2015, 10:01 PM

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.


This post has been edited by tishaban: Apr 21 2015, 01:07 PM

If it doesn't say waitlisted then you're confirmed a seat even on the standard/lowest tier. When the plane is full the Tier 1 and Tier 2 won't get confirmed seats either but once something opens up they'll be higher priority than standard ones. Tier 1 and Tier 2 are for economy/premium economy only, not business though.

CDG is unfortunately like LAX/LHR/JFK/NRT/AMS ie. one of the most popular segments. I don't fly to Europe much anymore but when I did do so on paid tickets places like Amsterdam would be constantly fully booked in business class even when I was willing to pay real money. You might get lucky with Qatar or Gulf Air, both OneWorld but that takes a call instead of online booking.

Asia Miles fortunately doesn't charge close in booking fee. Some airlines eg. AA will charge anything between $25-75 if you book less than 3 weeks from flight date.

Thank your Sir! So many options..... make me blur, hahaha. But one very important thing you highlighted, hard to get ticket to London on Business Class. I really like London, Lobsters freaking cheap and no language problems.

Next week onwards I'll be very free as I be in MEL and got nothing to do. Will go sign up with AsiaMiles and the airlines you mentioned and follow your instructions to the dot and see where it leads me. And now I know what is Avios, hahaha. By the way I have about 5000 Quantas Points - mainly earned from groceries at Woolworths, doubt I can redeem any ticket MEL/KL for years to come, hahaha.

Once I figure out AsiaMiles can get me a confirm Business Class ticket to London, I will start redeeming for AsiaMiles using TP.

Thank you Deputy Grand Master Sifu tishaban

One more tip, after you've signed up for flyertalk, go sign up for awardnexus.

https://awardnexus.com/

Awardnexus is an award search tool, you can use it to search for CX or other One World awards much easier than poking around Avios or Qantas websites. It's not free but every quarter you get a set number of points. Each search you do costs a certain amount of points but it's a huge time saver compared to the Avios website.

Using awardnexus I see that there are zero HKG-LHR flights available in early June for example

For all routes, CX will release award seats 360 days in advance primarily. Once the allocation for award seats are gone, unsold business/first class seats are released as award seats as late as 24 or 48 hours before a flight.


This post has been edited by tishaban: Apr 21 2015, 07:39 AM

Bro, I just published a Fiction Novel titled Earn Free Gold Bars with your Credit Cards.

In the introduction, I showed for KL to London example, better to redeem EM with our TP instead of going with cash vouchers.

I have got a measly 6000+ enrich points expiring end of this month and have no where to fly to. Just realized that the temptations inflight shopping is back on. Any idea how to convert these points into shopping vouchers as I have never done that before?

Hello all.

Just a quick one, i am trying to redeem flights via enrich miles, however the website kept showing "no flights found" on the particular date. Tried with different dates, same result.

Are you guys having the same issue as well ? How do i book my flight then ?

Thanks.

MAS has put up all 6 of its A380 for lease or sale!!

Where are you flying to?

This post has been edited by bearbear: May 1 2015, 02:43 AM

Does this mean MAS no longer have A380 fleet?

That is the plan, I guess can still enjoy until they managed to sell or lease.

Planning for a trip to Istanbul (IST)

Chin said MAS' ending of the Frankfurt route effective May 29 is just the beginning of the shrinking of several more international routes including Dubai, Paris and Amsterdam, and the restructuring of the national carrier in its early stages should not be distracted by requests from "third parties"

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/busines...says-think-tank

I poked around and there are options. Maybe you need to check several other dates.