However you do have the option for 5x MR from the gold or platinum Amex credit cards for some transactions. If you're clever with choosing the correct card for expenditure then you can maximize your Enrich conversion via both MR and TP.

Yes, Enrich redemption comes with huge fuel surcharges so they're not worth it unless you go for biz/J during their year end offers (60k miles for biz return to LAX!) Even SQ has some very high fuel surcharges.

I'm now concentrating on my oneworld miles. My miles are way too spread out right now on too many airlines...

American Express charge cards MR can be transferred to Krisflyer, CX Asia Miles and a few others. However even with 5x points using the Amex gold credit card it'll take awhile. Can't beat the US based credit cards though, they offer some really fantastic opportunities to gain miles.

Wakaka, I unfortunately don't have much choice due to varied flights and credit cards I'm on. If I had a choice I'd probably stick to Star Alliance but as of now it's all over the place. I'm at around 270k on UA Mileageplus, 160k on Krisflyer, 55k on AAdvantage plus more on Avios, Emirates etc. Emptied out my Etihad buying stuff and Enrich earlier this year when I got biz during their promos.

No lah most of it are on credit card mile promotions. I was flying a lot some years back but now I might do two J to LAX/NYC a year so at most 40-50k seat miles only. For those I've been focusing on Star Alliance since like 2009. You're way ahead of me there

The plan is to use up those miles for a family trip to the US, unfortunately with all the varied miles I have I can't consistently get a J/F flight on one award ticket, will have to split it up...


This post has been edited by tishaban: Jul 31 2013, 10:13 AM

Damn, didn't see this until too late.

On a side note, when will our Enrich miles be redeemable on OneWorld flights or are they already? I know the opposite is true ie. if you have AAdvantage miles for example you can book MH flights already.

Wow, haven't been here for a few weeks and just found out about this promo.

Now I'm torn. Was almost certain that I wanted to focus on Krisflyer only from now on, looks like Enrich might be back in business

Question is, is this (combined with the 10-15% cc transfer bonus) a sign of a devaluation coming in the future?

Damn I missed that Citibank bonus, was traveling and didn't see it on time. Argh

Time to apply for the Maybank VI I guess, need to bring up my Enrich balance again.

Thanks Gen-X, I don't focus all that much on my Malaysian CCs. Have been following your blog on and off, but flyertalk is where I'm usually at but I'll keep checking your blog thanks!


This post has been edited by tishaban: Jan 15 2014, 11:57 AM

Ha ha. It's the airport that charges tax plus MH usually has fuel surcharges (YQ). Fuel surcharges are painfully high on MH Enrich redemptions to the point that it doesn't make sense to redeem for economy class tickets.

I love the US based airlines in this sense. Mileageplus and AAdvantage both don't have fuel surcharges on most flights and their partners.

Hey you took my quote out of context

But yes I do love the US based airlines in the context of miles and the lack of fuel surcharges.

Not entirely an Enrich question but aside from Amex MR and Citibank rewards, are there any other cards in Malaysia that transfer to Avios? I googled and did a quick search on the banking sites a bit but nothing came up.

You can redeem enrich miles for Oneworld flights but there's no 50% off and the award charts are on the high side.

http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/enri...s/oneworld.html

Other Oneworld partner miles are more valuable. As an example, I just redeemed 125k Avios miles on Cathay Pacific and got a one way KL to New York in Biz/First Class. You need 204k Enrich miles to do that...

Enrich miles are seriously low value on Oneworld. If you're actually flying, it's probably best to park your miles under AAdvantage.

Avios is redeemable via Citibank only. Maybank TP can only be redeemed for Enrich and Krisflyer.

I only have Citibank gold, best to check their website for details. Conversion is similar to Maybank TP to KF.

I only wish I could transfer Maybank TP to Avios, way more in TP than Citibank points.

https://www.citibank.com.my/MYGCB/ICARD/rewhom/entryPre.do

Select Airmiles then your card (gold in my case). The list includes British Airways Executive Club which is Avios.

7000 points = 1000 miles

SQ has fully enclosed suites ie you can close the door. Emirates is the same.

Other airlines eg. CX has open suites ie. enclosed on the left but somewhat open on the right. The picture's not great, was doing a panorama on my iPhone but it shows where the open part of the suite is.



MH A380 suites is a bit more open than CX, similar to Thai as mentioned already.

I like both the Cathay and Singapore suites. Have not yet tried Thai or Malaysia Airlines suites yet. Might try it during the next Enrich sale but I don't have much reason to go to London

I have more pictures but they're on the iPhone. Trust me it's significantly longer and wider than business class. That ottoman is actually pretty far away, I can't reach it with my feet fully extended. Will compare it with SQ suites later.

Absolutely correct. A handful of routes are mostly empty on C/F but in general KF is never ending waitlist.

The best so far is CX but Maybank TP doesn't transfer to Avios or Asia Miles. Only Citibank does.

Try this link There's a Oneworld entry somewhere on the first link.

In short however it's not worth it. Far too expensive IMO compared to the likes of AAdvantage, plus you need to pay airport tax + fuel surcharges on some airlines.