3. 1 enrich mile every RM5 is a pretty bad, compared to CIMB or even Maybank's own Premiere Card, both roughly 1 enrich mile per RM1 spent. Granted Premiere is RM800 per year compared to RM500 but it's also more flexible with transfers to AM and KF. With the 100% bonus it is a tiny bit better, but still nasty.

Can I ask which CIMB card gives RM1=1EM?

Does anyone know if Malaysian banks are willing to provide credit card for Malaysians not working in Malaysia? This is because I always fly Malaysia airlines but always have to fork out the foreign fee when booking. Thanks!

Don't forget Maybank will impose gst on the redemption...

If the rumoured downgrade of KUL-CDG A380 to 772ER comes true then Enrich Miles will only be good for KUL-LHR. Pity, was eyeing 4 award seats for the Paris route in September.

Not exactly the correct place to post this, but SQ is having a 50% off Krisflyer sale to some destinations for the summer in economy class. 37k return for Houston for example is not a bad deal, aside from the S$600 YQ fuel surcharge...

https://beta.singaporeair.com/en_UK/ppsclub...ionpromo-may15/

Not exactly the correct place to post this, but SQ is having a 50% off Krisflyer sale to some destinations for the summer in economy class. 37k return for Houston for example is not a bad deal, aside from the S$600 YQ fuel surcharge...

https://beta.singaporeair.com/en_UK/ppsclub...ionpromo-may15/

should we start another thread for KrisFlyer miles since Enrich miles not popular choice now?

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.

Bro, you go start new thread and I close this thread.

Sifu, while I was in Melbourne I did go checked out Avios and Asia Miles.

However, since I only interested in flying Business Class to Europe, and taking into consideration what you mentioned about hard to get confirm ticket with Asia Miles, I kind of concentrated on British Airways.

And to my surprise, we can get a return flight to London for about RM5K with British Airways World Traveller Class. And Business Class with British Airways (about RM11K) cheaper than MAS - but maybe that time when I checked, BA must be having a sale as I just recheck again and this time it cost about RM15K.

And correct me if I am wrong, we only need 132K Enrich Miles to redeem for British Airways Business Class one way KL/London.
Bro, you go start new thread and I close this thread.

why not just edit the title for this thread, then add new more information regarding other frequent flyer program on first post..
this way we can maintain the information about enrich miles.

Sifu Gen-X, you do know that you replied to the same person aka Sifu tishaban right?

The thing is when I am overseas, I don't update any threads and even my blog. So better someone, e.g. tishaban, who is knowledgeable on frequent flyer miles thingy start a thread to cover all airlines. 

And if anyone wants to start a new thread, I hereby give him/her permission to copy my "work" in Post#1 and post in the new thread.