Citibank stopping points transfer Cathay Pacific, Etihad Guest, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer and Qatar

[Derek Glover]

Changes to Points transfer partners:
Cathay Pacific, Etihad Guest, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer and Qatar Airways Privilege Club will no longer be available as Points Transfer redemption partners effective 16 November 2025. Does anyone know about this? What are we left with?

 

[oz_mark]

See also: Citi cards become myCard - no more CX, KF, EY, QR from 16/11/25

 

[Forg]

Sounds like those airlines aren’t seeing enough business funneled through Citibank to think it’s worth paying the kick-backs for a points-transfer agreement?

 

[trippin_the_rift]

Sounds like those airlines aren’t seeing enough business funneled through Citibank to think it’s worth paying the kick-backs for a points-transfer agreement?

That's not how the agreements work.

It is more likely that local airlines teamed up to indirectly kick out intl airlines from the market.
Regulators would love that.

 

[Human]

Sounds like those airlines aren’t seeing enough business funneled through Citibank to think it’s worth paying the kick-backs for a points-transfer agreement?

My assumption has been that this rush to either jettison (Citibank, CommBank) or increase the price of (AmEx) transfers to overseas FF programmes has been partly due to the flagged lowering or abolition of surcharges, but mostly due to the long-term exchange rate deterioration between the AUD and USD.

In other words, I've assumed that overseas FF programmes charge Australian credit card providers a fee in USD for their points, and those fees are now just too high.

Maybe I'm totally on the wrong track, though?