poor value combine with sub par product...

For MAS one will be better off paying for the ticket, especially if you have the platinum card, which buy one get one free business class ticket

Damn, that's a serious devaluation! plus they remove the 15% discount on online redemption, making it not worthwhile anymore

what is the best way and fastest way to get the asiamiles? thanks

Enrich is devaluing? I don't want to shift to AirAsia for 2.30hours flight going back to Kampung...

Already devalued

Anyone knows if AM offers any sort of discounts at all? Even if 20% will be well worth it. Do I wait for a deal or just redeem tickets now?

So, any advice how to get a 'worthwhile' deal or just dump the enrich card

It depends on where do you want to go...
For short regional flights, the devalued Enrich is still not too bad.

I see.. I was thinking of shifting to Malindo or maybe AA for regional flight since my card was downgraded haha

I guess need to keep flying back to regain the status

guys, what's the chances of getting upgrade to higher class with a KF gold card? is there any guideline or best practice?

KF gold is basically nothing in the KF food chain

then which KF status is 'something' ?

not KF, PPS

SPG is having year end promo at 35% off. Came to learn this through a sales listing in Shopee, fair price without the need to pay for currency exchange. Interested SPG or Marriott loyalists may wish to take a look.

https://shopee.com.my/brandnewstart/657184920/

Yeah PPS is much more valued by SQ than KF Gold.

But don’t give us hope, if Lady Luck is on your side and your flight is overbooked, you’re definitely in the running and have higher chance to be op-up, compared to lay public like me.

My KF silver friend got op-up before!

may I know how to best utilize the SPG miles?

I buy Starpoints to redeem for hotel stays only. Others here sometimes use it to convert to air miles. Starwood offers a great transfer bonus: for every 20,000 Starwood points you transfer to any partner airline in a single transaction, you’ll receive a 25% mileage bonus. 25,000 airmiles for 20,000 SPG points/

How best to utilise depends again on where you want to go and which airlines.

You means for Starwood hotel stay?
I feel like even taking into 35percent discount, there is not much diff compare to just pay cash to stay in the hotel? Am I miss something? Thanks for your answer

Whether to use cash or points depends really.

Let's take an extreme example.

A stay in St Regis New York in April next year will cost you USD1,300 nett/night. Or you can use 30k starpoints which only equates to USD682.50 under the current 35% promotion.

But with the Marriott takeover you can convert 24k starpoints to Marriott Reward Points and stay at the Ritz-Carlton Central Park. Or stay 5 nights and get the 5th night free under either SPG or Marriott. This would bring the points required down even more for a stay in an aspirational 5-star property.

A more common scenario would be like when I used 3k starpoints to book a stay at Aloft KL during a busy weekend last Oct when rates were hovering above RM600 a night.

SPG enables one to attain Platinum through only 25 stays or 50 nights. With this, you're matched to Marriott's Platinum Elite which normally requires 75 nights. I'm sticking to SPG for now until further news on the program's future.

I suspect most here would be converting into air miles for business/first class flights which makes much more (economic) sense than hotel night redemptions.