Here we provide tips, tricks and chat about Frequent Flyer Credit cards. This is probably the most common way to earn tens of thousands of frequent flyer points, and you never even need to get onboard an aircraft!
ANZ has a rather attractive offer at the moment on new home loans. If you take out an ANZ mortgage of at least $300,000 by 31 August 2019, you’ll receive 300,000 Qantas Frequent Flyer points. 300,000 Qantas points is almost enough to book a Oneworld round-the-world award in Business class after the Qantas Frequent Flyer … Continued
Earning frequent flyer points wisely can open the door to (almost) free travel all over the world! But it can be difficult to know where to start to maximise the rewards. SimonAus is a new AFF member who emigrated from the UK to Perth. This member would like to use frequent flyer points to make the … Continued
Westpac has launched a new Altitude Velocity rewards program which comes with direct earning of Velocity points and complimentary Economy X upgrades on Virgin Australia flights. Westpac customers can now choose to opt-in to earning either Qantas points, Velocity points or Altitude Rewards points with their credit card. As part of the changes, Westpac is … Continued
Amex cardholders in Australia and New Zealand will no longer be able to use their Priority Pass benefits at airport restaurants from 1 August 2019. In addition to airport lounge access, Priority Pass members normally receive a $36 food & beverage credit at participating airport bars, restaurants and cafes. Priority Pass began to partner with airport … Continued
CommBank Awards may be Australia’s largest credit card rewards program, but it is certainly not the most competitive. Not a single CommBank Awards credit card makes it into our lists of the top-earning Qantas, Velocity or Asia Miles credit cards in Australia. In addition, all CommBank Awards credit cards have annual limits on the number of points … Continued
Velocity Frequent Flyer’s twice-yearly promotion on points transfers is back! This time around, you can earn up to 25% bonus Velocity points when transferring your points from participating credit card and hotel rewards programs to Velocity Frequent Flyer (or a generous 50% bonus if you have ANZ Rewards points). Velocity Frequent Flyer runs a similar … Continued
Last weekend, the much-anticipated changes to Amex Membership Rewards took effect. The rate at which you’ll earn points on your Amex credit card has now changed, and in most cases, existing Amex Membership Rewards points are also now worth less. The Amex credit card devaluation has led to many AFF members reconsidering their credit card … Continued
RewardPay and B2Bpay have both reduced their fees this week following the major changes to Amex credit cards from 15 April. But after such a significant devaluation to Amex Membership Rewards, this may not be enough for these services to remain competitive going forward. Services like RewardPay and B2Bpay offer customers the opportunity to pay … Continued
Several loyalty program devaluations affecting Australians will take place after next weekend. Over the coming days, Amex Membership Rewards, Westpac Altitude Rewards and Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer are all changing their programs for the worse. It’s now your last chance to prepare for the upcoming changes! So we thought we’d give a quick recap of … Continued
Bankwest will next month reduce the overall amount of Qantas points that can be earned on its Bankwest Qantas MasterCard credit cards. The devaluation will take effect from 22 May 2019 and impacts the Bankwest Qantas Classic MasterCard, Bankwest Qantas Platinum MasterCard and Bankwest Qantas World MasterCard. Bankwest is making changes to the number of … Continued
Westpac’s Altitude Rewards program will no longer offer Velocity auto-redemption from 15 April 2019. This is bad news for Altitude Rewards members, as Velocity auto-redemption is currently the only way to transfer Altitude points to Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer program at a 2:1 rate. With auto-redemptions being discontinued, transfers from Altitude to Velocity will … Continued
With less than two weeks until the Amex Membership Rewards devaluation, airlines have been competing for Amex points. Last month, Velocity Frequent Flyer offered 15-25% bonus points on transfers from Amex Membership Rewards to Velocity. Now, Qantas is getting in on the action, offering 15-40% bonus Qantas Frequent Flyer points. Velocity will probably run another … Continued