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    Credit Card Offers HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card: Fast-Track to Star Alliance Gold Status

    yeah that makes sense, cheers for the info! will be adding this card to my rotation for sure
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    Credit Card Offers HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card: Fast-Track to Star Alliance Gold Status

    yikes that's a massive wait... just out of curiosity, apart from the obvious benefits that comes with the card (Lounges, extra baggage, priority queue etc) do you earn AC points? afaik the cards that earn AC points are the Star Alliance card and the Comm Bank Awards card (pretty low rate), so I...
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    Credit Card Offers HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card: Fast-Track to Star Alliance Gold Status

    That's mightily generous of them, thanks for confirming! Looks like between my partner and I we have the potential to get 4 years of Star Alliance Gold out of this if we time it right 😉
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    Credit Card Offers HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card: Fast-Track to Star Alliance Gold Status

    I'm going to be travelling through Singapore (mixture of Econ and Business) next year to a number of countries next year with SA and ANA most likely. This card piqued my interest due to the instant gold status which will help with the Econ flights. I'm considering between either choosing SA or...
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    AMEX rejection

    Just to add another data point here, partner and myself both rejected by AMEX. Both applied for the AMEX Velocity card to take advantage of the 30k bonus points during April. I've churned 3 cards in the last 12 months, she's done 2. Both on decent income, good credit score and repayment history...
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    Error processing payment - Booking using Velocity Points

    yeah trying to book an SQ award ticket which is throwing the error, was actually able to book one fine just a week or so ago and when a flight that's later in the itinerary dates wise opened up returned that error, but looks like I'm not the only one I was able to do it points + cash the first...
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    Error processing payment - Booking using Velocity Points

    Been trying to book flights via points for the past week and keep getting these errors along the process, tried different browsers, incognito, on the app, partner also having the same issues. Calling up to book over the phone seems to work but when I ask the agent on the phone whether there's a...
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    if I have a bunch of Krisflyer miles that'll expire from not using them, are there any other ways to use them apart from converting it to VFF to prevent them from going to waste?
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    ANZ black retention offers

    seems as though Craig has a loan (home loan I'm guessing?) with ANZ which might give compel the agent to waive the fee... I wonder if they'll even bother entertaining card churners with just the credit card open with ANZ as other posters have mentioned their experience being told to either keep...
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    Credit Card Offers 100k Velocity points offer with ANZ Platinum card (apply by 15/11/24)

    about to apply for an ANZ card after cancelling my St Georges' and just came across the Reward Platinum which nets you 170k points that works out to be 85k VFF points since I don't plan on keeping the card for > 15 months for the additional 30k with a $149 annual fee while the Rewards Black gets...
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    Should I cancel my card first before applying for the next card? (St. George Amplify, KF)

    awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for, cheers for that
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    Hello fellow frequent flyers

    Hi all, New to this forum and relatively new to points accumulation, trying to soak up as much knowledge the brains trust has to offer while I navigate the world of flying and upgrading via points
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    Should I cancel my card first before applying for the next card? (St. George Amplify, KF)

    Hi all, pretty new points collector here, applied for the St. George Amplify Signature card around Jan with a $15k limit and have hit the $12k spend fairly quickly with all the points still in the St. George system. I'm pretty keen to jump onto the next card but there are a few things that's...
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