Usually 2-5 days

You may waitlist those J class tickets... for Y class, only waitlist those you preferred
No point confirm Y class to Ams (since it is not your preferred choice, unless it is J)
Still have several months to go, check for seats availability every few weeks.
Worse case, just buy an economy ticket rather than waste your miles on Y (unless you miles is expiring).

Dec is still long to go.
RM3.6k with 76k miles is simply not worth it.
I will not hesitate will purchase with cash and added 4k miles
Unless you have secured 1 way J ticket and struggle to find the return way (buying 1 way ticket is quite expensive), then you may forced to redeem for Y ticket.

SA devaluation is expected after KF own devaluation early this year. You can still book a few routes on SA which is cheaper than SIA before 16 April. Most of the SA flight will be equivalent to KF own chart after this.

Your redemption value is ok, quite decent.
At least you get about 5 cents / mile (definitely can't compare to J class).
This is especially true when you have excessive Enrich miles.

Equivalent route with KF will cost 152k miles!
MAS J class redemption is overpriced ~500k miles for two return tickets!

I am still exploring how to best utilize the Enrich miles...

Will not waste miles on Y
Any good trick to get good value for J class (with Enrich)?

Neither me, hardly fly MAS nowadays.
But my dad has some good amount of Enrich miles to get rid of.

Yea. Short distance - Japan, China, HK seem getting better value compare to Europe / Aus.
Even OW rate isn't too attractive.

Less chance to get a saver ticket compare to advantage and hence the extra miles

If you MUST fly on that day and have excessive miles, go ahead.
Not many people has the luxury to pay for advantage ticket, especially first class advantage.
You may wait for a while and hope for more available seats (for saver ticket), but of course you may also risk the seat being taken up (again if you are compulsory to fly on only this plane on this particular date).

For me, I will not waste my miles on advantage ticket, unless when travel on 2, but really no option left (ie 1 saver; 1 advantage)

Added: 130k MAS business vs 140k SQ first, that's a no-brainer!
Nevertheless, it is much easy to secure a seat from MAS compare to SQ

This post has been edited by charlesj: Mar 30 2019, 09:55 PM

If it is not under waitlist, you can get a confirmed ticket immediately. Of course you need to have sufficient miles in your account.

Airlines will gradually open more seats for redemption, especially when departure date is near and still a lot vacant seats (at the same time will approve those on waitlist).

Yup, unless waitlist, you get immediate confirmation after paying airport tax etc.

Go for Q-suite!

Anyone spot it?








Airmiles redemption rate is reduced to 6000 from 7000. - Edit: may not correct, i think it was refer to BIG point redemption at 6000.
Nevertheless, it is still lower than the initial 5000.
Hopefully this is not typo as the redemption catalogue is still showing 7000 (till 31-Mar).
Looks like at lot people are dumping their Amb CC and they need extra effort to gain back the crowd.
Haha!

This post has been edited by charlesj: Apr 2 2019, 04:11 PM

Of course still not as good as mbb, at least we start seeing CC improve on our benefits (rather than all time devaluation).

Amb was my main overseas card, and thanks for its devaluation, I had switched into m2p and my miles are double in no time

I think i was wrong about this.
After reconfirm from Amb redemption catalogue, i noticed that 6000 point = 1000 BIG point!!!
Sorry for the wrong info~

This post has been edited by charlesj: Apr 2 2019, 04:09 PM

It was devalued at 40%! Not 20%
From 5k to 7k

It is determined by FFP, not CC
Most of the FFP don't allow so

Not too sure.
Bank can allow any name to go through, but they will be questioned by FFP during audit.
To keep their hand clean, best way is to tally both names.
When study from overseas forum, some mentioned that FFP will checked your redeemed miles while you make your booking.
Don't know how true it is.

Btw, you can transfer your miles between family members for some FFP, of course it is not free.
Enrich and AM are possible, but not for KF.

I also found it weird.
Nevertheless, it was shared by at least 2 separate incidents.
He was happy to received the KF miles (from his spouse CC).
When he redeemed free tickets from KF, it was flagged (KF checked his source).
Finally they found a clause which the bank allows transfer between spouse and close the case.

Australia is pretty cashless thanks to Eftpos.
I have been using Eftpos more than 10 years ago, and supermarket cashier is basically the atm machine.
Back then, Msia CC still required signature (and not common for us to apply for pin), which may not accept by some merchant (ie. Taxi).

E-wallet was basically started by PayPal, which was a by-product of Ebay (if not mistaken).
People use PayPal for convenience, security (protection) as well as for foreign currencies purchase.
Mr Jack copied Ebay and came out with Alibaba, as well as Alipay, the Chinese version PayPal.
I believe Chinese Gov is playing major role to turn China into largest cashless society nowadays, with the aim to minimize corruption.

Generally, western countries (inc aus) has wider acceptance of CC (and debit card).
They are not desperate for e-wallet, especially now with Visa payWave.
The introduction of ApplePay & AndroidPay, may slowly turn on e-wallet for European (and American).
For Msia, I believe we are following the Chinese model rather than Westerners, with the aim to record every single transaction.
That's just my own analysis, some data may incorrect.