I had read a few times upgrade and full award NOT from the same bucket.
Best if you can check, call to confirm, then only purchase and upgrade immediately.

Do note that you CANNOT upgrade from Economy Saver ticket (cheapest) to Business Saver.
You still need to "convince" your company to buy you expensive economy ticket.
Fortunately, latest revision enable us to upgrade from Economy Standard as well (besides Eco Flexi, which is super expensive).

Nevertheless, upgrade from Economy Std to Business Saver cost about 80% miles of full business saver redemption.
Where do you see upgrade is half of full redemption?
That's only applicable for Premium Eco to Business.
Hence we always said it is not worth it (for most cases).

Sometimes I will redeem one way on my own while company pay for my another one way ticket (slightly more expensive, of course I need to justify it).
Cannot simply use any airline, some airline is quoting insane price for 1 way ticket.

FYR
https://milelion.com/2020/01/08/the-milelio...-card-strategy/

Yea, there is a calculator for them, and they start training their kids to pick the correct card while shopping / outings since young.
4mpd is quite good, which is 1/3 better than our Amex spending, considering not many places accepting Amex.
Nevertheless, all their 4mpd cards are capped, no good for big spender especially on luxury item.
Also their FCY is very high and not many cards are offering 4mpd (or 3mpd) for overseas, maybe they can too easily spend in Msia.

Last but not least, we have an ultimate card earning us 1 mile/RM when MU wins! Haha!
Only if MU keep winning.

Even US is similar (but maybe not so complicated).
That's why they need to develope calculator / tool to assist them optimizing the usage.

Actually our scenario is the same, but everyone is focusing on CB.
Do prepare bank to offer us more during competition.
Bank A will soon offers 1.2 mile for dining.
Bank B gives 1.5 mile for online, capped at RM1500.
Bank C offers 1.6 mile for overseas, minimum RM2000 usage.

Trust me, we definitely won't get something equivalent to X Card.
SC knew it is a failure and retracted immediately after one week.
From 100k to 60k and now 30k, with hefty AF, application rate will be very minimal, haha.

Maybe SC will give us X card with 30k, probably with lower AF.

You can actually pay with your KF miles at very poor rate.

Based on latest MBB TP changes, you can only redeem 2 mil air miles per year. Your 5 mil TP is only half the quota.

As mentioned above, accumulate for a little more for business return, if your travel plan is flexible.
Regarding redemption, best you play around now.
Summer is peak period to travel, may have limited space.

Is a good addition.
Would try Sin-Pen in First class just to visit Qantas First lounge in Changi.
One of the best lounge.

The only negative, it is flying on old 777

This post has been edited by charlesj: Jan 30 2020, 02:11 PM

Yes, 120 will deduct from there

Yes. But try to negotiate for free cancellation.

Just said coronavirus, wish to cancel lo
Some airlines / route will waive the cancellation fee

Going to cancel my flight on new Suite :'(
Halfway cancelling my flight redeem on "expired" miles, discussion with CS.
Going to cancel another revenue ticket, should be straight forward for refund.

7000:1000 is only valid for Prestige, which was the old rate for Citi redemption.
During Citi devaluation last year, they claimed that Prestige was not affected.
I don't have it, can't confirm for you.
Nevertheless, with Prestige recent devaluation (benefits, not air miles), it is not quite worth getting it.

For those with expiring KF, here are the options available:
https://mainlymiles.com/2020/04/14/krisflye...he-scrapheap-2/

Get you into Enrich Silver / Gold / Platinum
With Enrich Platinum, you can go in OW First class lounge, notably new Qantas First Class lounge in Changi.
One of the best lounge available.

Personally I never been to Oneworld first class lounges.
My comments below is solely based on reputable reviewers feedback.

QF F lounges are superb, no doubt, and the latest in Changi is one of the best nearest to us.
Even TPR is much inferior compare to Sg QF F lounge, esp TPR toilet (meh... deadly need upgrading)

CX F lounges in HKG are excellent too.

For QR, if you are flying QR F, you shall go to Al Safwa First Lounge in DOH.
For Oneworld Emerald, you only have access to QR F lounge, which is way inferior.

Same for BA, for BA F passenger, you can access to Concorde Room in LHR.
Whereas Oneworld Emerald only gives you the inferior BA F lounge.

I think KLIA MH F is at par with LHR BA F and DOH QR F, if not better.
Hence, this is the purpose of having Enrich Platinum (equivalent to Oneworld Emerald) to access the above lounges worldwide.

Cool! Good to know!
Was flying mainly SQ previously.
Now starting to accumulate miles for OW and Emirates.
Is time to sample more OW flights and lounges.

Unfortunately there is no announcement regarding TPR renovation, yet.
It was supposed to start renovation from T3 Business, First, TPR and Gold since Aug 2019.
However during my visit last Nov, if my memory is correct, it was KF Gold undergoing renovation instead (I still remember when I pass by Business lounges, it was fully packed, just like pasar malam, probably can't even find a seat).
Till Feb before lockdown, there is still no report on TPR renovation.
Hopefully they had started by now, and by next year we can compare the new TPR.

Besides dated furnishing, the food and champagne are excellent in TPR.
I don't think many business class lounge can exceed the standard of TPR.
The only downside for TPR is without toilet in the bathroom...

I did drop by First Class Lounge but they are the same (for T3)