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    Best use of points to get to Rome late August??

    Hoping the brains trust can help me. I have a large holding of Kris flyer points (close to a million) and need to be in Rome late August coming back first week in November. Ideally Aug 23rd to Sept 6th but someflexibility. I'm based in Brisbane and am part of a team representing Australia at a...
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    Article: Australia-USA Flights at 50% of Pre-COVID Capacity

    One other factor, not mentioned, that may be a small part of this drop is that the USA is still requiring full jabs to get into the country. A know a lot of people, who like me, didnt go down that road during the past 2 years. I'm ready and looking forward to travelling back to the USA once...
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    GOOD NEWS! Krisflyer Miles to be extended until 2023 [previously April 2022]

    And yet I have paid full business class fare to Europe return in the past - those points were earnt and shouldnt be lost due to this kind of policy
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    GOOD NEWS! Krisflyer Miles to be extended until 2023 [previously April 2022]

    Its still way past time that KrisFlyer got onboard with moving away from the fixed 3 year til expiry. I have 1000000 points and it took a fair while to accumulate them and really dont want to be losing them.
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    KrisFlyer Points expiry extension

    I have taken the trouble of using their feedback forms to write about the outdated policy they have and point out that they can go 2 ways at this point. Change the policy and win the hearts of many members or let the points expire and probably lose those members for ever. Perhaps more should...
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    KrisFlyer Points expiry extension

    Real shame that Singapore airlines/Krisflyer wont come to the party like all the other airlines with a helping hand for all those with significant points holdings in the Krisflyer program
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    St George Ampliy Signature card. 100,000 Amplify points. NO FEE!

    This sounds pretty good to me but can someone please explain this condition a bit more: "Eligible purchases do not include BPAY or BPAY equivalent transactions" I regularly use utility bills and rates etc to make up my qualifying spend. Is that out? No real explanation of what a BPAY equivalent...
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    Altitude Rewards changes to points transfer rate

    Just got off the phone from Westpac - being applied retrospectively and apparently a lot of negative feedback being received. VA 95,000 each way is true on paper but I cannot find any availability on any dates I choose within 12 months - lots of articles out there stating that vary rarely does...
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    Altitude Rewards changes to points transfer rate

    Isnt it 3 years until expiry?
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    Altitude Rewards changes to points transfer rate

    Big thanks for the detailed advice. My working out gives me this: 1541269 Reward Points SQ 2.5:1 616507.6 3:1 513756.33 Loss of 102751.27 VA 2:1 770634 3:1 513756.33 Loss of 256877.67 SQ BNE to LAX return using SQ Business rewards redemption appears to be 220000 Krys flyer points VA BNE to...
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    Altitude Rewards changes to points transfer rate

    This has been a bit of a shock. We have been long term banking points in Altitude Rewards with over 1.5 million points currently. Cant afford to take a massive hit like that and unsure of whether to transfer to SQ or VA?? No big travel planned yet except a possible to USA/Mexico in early...
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    Is this points earn worth the fee?

    Fee is 1% as indicated originally.
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    Is this points earn worth the fee?

    We are currently banking points in Altitude rewards as they can be transferred to 5 different airlines reward schemes. Total points in the bank is 1.4 million which = 571K Krisflyer or 714K Velocity at current redemption rates. Aim is for using them for J (maybe F) for long haul in the next...
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    Is this points earn worth the fee?

    Hi Folks, Reaching out to the brains trust here to see if this is worth doing? I have a $27000 spend (not ATO) to do today and it can be paid via credit card. Fee is $270 Westpac Black Alitude Rewards are $1 = 1.25 Alitude points Points earn would be 33,750 Alitude points Altitude points to...
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    5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Points)

    Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi I missed the step for linking from the VA side, all good now and 3704 velocity points succesfully transferred - thanks for the help!
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    5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Points)

    Re: 5,000 Free KrisFlyer Miles for New Accounts (or 3,703 Velocity Frequent Flyer Poi I signed up for this almost a week ago but didnt get time to go back and do the transfer. Logged into Krisflyer today and the 5000 points are there but when I try and link my velocity account I get this: The...
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