QUOTE(bkwu @ Nov 19 2013, 01:42 AM)
Hi Gen-X dai kor, benefit alot from your credit card post and also your blog.
I had been happily accumulating my maybank TP for quite sometime hoping to exchange for free flight tickets, but I was quite disappointed to found that MAS is charging "fuel & other surchage" which the cost alone could buy airasia tickets already..
so im wondering that is it normal for that kind of charge? or sometimes they do have promotion where you can exchange it with very little enrich miles.
For example, I tried to check the miles required to fly to taipei is 12500, and surcharge is around 400
12500 EM would be equivalent to RM 350 worth of jusco voucher, so the cost of that ticket would be RM750
with that price, one can easily buy tickets that cost about the same from MAS or airasia anytime..
so can you please enlighten me is there any way to get better value for converting TP to EM?
thanks!
EM are good for only certain destinations IMO. For example, flights to Paris is cheaper in cash (most of the time) than flights to London, but the EM value is the same. Therefore, its more worth it to use EM to redeem flights to London.
Also, I think EM is worthless if you wanna use it for a nearby destination. I would judge anything less than 8 hours travel duration to be not worth using EM.