It's pretty difficult to determine enrich miles required, as it is now linked to the actual price of the tickets...which varies day to day, flight to flight....only way is to do a trial booking....day by day...

Unlike the zone method used before, and still used by most other airlines ffp....

Yes, mh enrich j redemption is now rubbish....

You starting from kul?....

I thought can do a multi sector booking with a stopover in sin using the krisflyer online system?....

Unfortunately too "spontaneous".....only for travel in March....

No point joining a ffp unless you fly frequently with that airline....

Swiss is part of star alliance....so maybe sq will be the more likely airline you will use....

Ticket pricing is a complex science....many factors come into play.....early purchase, different markets, different portals, group bookings, etc all can have different codes....

It entitles you to different levels of flexibility to amend booking, cancel, rebook, reroute, frequent flyer miles earned, eligibility for upgrade to higher class travels and/or choice of seats to choose from on check-in...

However, once in aircraft, only the main classes are relevant.... economy, premium economy, business or first....whether you are y(full fare) or k or v or o(discounted economy) or g(group) class, you get the same service on board....

It gets easier to get miles from CC .....

But the actual miles earned by flying remains the same.....so it's becoming more of a CC perk than the original "frequent flyer" program...

In terms of value for your points, it's always better to redeem j class.....

If you get low miles redemption for y, you can get it cheaply in cash too....

Which is why the redemption is also cheap....

Btw, after "to" always present tense.....lol

5 points per RM spend overseas....still not as good as ambank's vi/m2p.....but the wmc will save you about 1 Sen per RM due to lower FC conversion charges.....

They have a well developed system of EFTPOS....but using the visa/MC network on the debit cards.....it's very widely accepted and you can even take money (cash out) when you pay at supermarkets....

Not much advantage using e-wallets.....

The WeChat pay/alipay system took off in China because they have no existing network of card based payment system, unlike Oz.....so it fills the vacuum in electronic payment.....

The main issue in Malaysia is the transaction costs....the visa(plus)/MC(cirrus) network is expensive to run for merchants as it need dedicated terminals and network connection to the servers....hence could not penetrate down the chain to low value retail....

On the other hand, the newer electronic payment systems run off existing infrastructure: your phones and normal internet connections....and hence cost almost nothing to set up....hence wider acceptance by low value retail....

How rapidly a country adopts these new payment systems depends on their existing infrastructure.... for PRC, with almost zero electronic payment system before, adopting WeChat is logical....

For Oz (and most oecd countries) with well established EFTPOS infrastructure in place, there is little advantage to adopt the e-wallets and phone based payment systems, and there may even be resistance, as they already have spent a lot of money on the EFTPOS system....

Going forward, I foresee the big 3 (visa/MC/amex) merging their card based system with the phone based system....ie doing exactly like fave.....I believe the wave functionality can be adapted to read a phone in addition to a card....and I foresee they slowly giving up dedicated terminals and migrate to cheaper QR code scanners....and they have one BIG advantage ....their system is international.....

This post has been edited by limeuu: May 3 2019, 11:55 AM

Not enough for 2 pax j return, but should be enough for one way j .....and since you already have 60k miles in em, no choice but use em.....

Yes.....am needs the least miles, but the yj is pretty steep....kf needs the highest miles, but yj is usually only few hundred MYR....

I think he is quoting advantage redemption, 90k quoted, but unlike am or em, that quote is for return..... savers only 50k return!

Sorry, that's for y.....j is 94k savers return....

More availability and stopovers in advantage....savers usually quickly get snapped up....

Hotel vouchers is converting miles Into it's cash value....never as good as to j flights, which always yield a higher return as calculated on the market value of these tickets....

Suite class for young children is a waste..... unless you are drowning in miles..... lol

By being a emerald equivalent in a oneworld airline....in the case of mh, that means 130 elite sectors or 100,000 elite miles to get platinum status... almost impossible unless you travel weekly j class....or monthly LHR return.....lol

Note cc points conversion gets you miles.....not elite miles, hence you cannot redeem yourself into a status....