Article: 4 Reasons You Might Transfer KrisFlyer Miles to Velocity

[AFF Editor]

4 Reasons You Might Transfer KrisFlyer Miles to Velocity is an article written by AFF editorial staff:

4 Reasons You Might Transfer KrisFlyer Miles to Velocity

There aren't many situations where it would be good value to convert KrisFlyer miles into Velocity points, but there are exceptions.

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You can leave a comment or discuss this topic below.

 

[SydneySwan]

Reason 4b - moving points to VA means you can transfer and combine them. A colleague, his wife and 2 kids ended up with a bit over 5k SQ points each that were useless in SQ on their own. They transferred them to VA and combined them in one account to turn them into a domestic return flight for one person. They actually did this just before the last devaluation when the transfer rate was 1 - 1.35 but this logic still holds good at the 'enhanced' rate of 1 - 1.55.

 

[MikeG]

Is there a way of moving Kris+ points to Velocity? I had the bad judgement to move my Krisflyer points over to there.

 

[knagelli]

Is there a way of moving Kris+ points to Velocity? I had the bad judgement to move my Krisflyer points over to there.

Yes the points can be moved ; refer to the below link :

https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/in/ppsclub-krisflyer/use-miles/otherways-to-redeem-miles/

 

[MikeG]

Yes the points can be moved ; refer to the below link :

https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/in/ppsclub-krisflyer/use-miles/otherways-to-redeem-miles/

Kris+ points can't be moved to Krisflyer unless they are earned on Kris+ and it is within 7 days of earning. I have a few thousand points in Kris+ that were earned some time ago. AFAIK these cannot be moved to Krisflyer or Velocity normally. Just seeing if anyone knows a creative way of moving them, or purchasing points with Kris+

 

[knagelli]

Points are currently in Kris+, not Krisflyer, and they cannot be moved to Krisflyer AFAIK.

Thanks , you are right as I misread that completely.

 

[brown891]

Kris+ points can't be moved to Krisflyer unless they are earned on Kris+ and it is within 7 days of earning. I have a few thousand points in Kris+ that were earned some time ago. AFAIK these cannot be moved to Krisflyer or Velocity normally. Just seeing if anyone knows a creative way of moving them, or purchasing points with Kris+

If you haven't transferred the KrisPay miles to KF in time, then they stay as KrisPay miles. Not the worst if you have transit or travel to SIN.

 

[MikeG]

Thats what I thought. However, I'm not planning to visit SIN any time soon.

 

[brown891]

Thats what I thought. However, I'm not planning to visit SIN any time soon.

Tricky!! Hopefully Kris+ earn and burn is activated in Australia so that you could utilise locally.

 

[Anna]

The ability to transfer KrisFlyer points to Velocity is broken for me at the moment. Can anyone make it work for them?

On the 'other ways to redeem points' page I can select 'airline partner' but not 'airline'. (Yes my KF and VFF accounts are supposed to be already linked).

 

[jbman]

Worked this week for me no issues at all. Transfer happened within seconds

 

[Anna]

After calls to both SQ and VA, I was finally able to transfer points online from KF to VFF. Still no idea why it was so much harder than it needed to be

 

[HSCP]

Beware when attempting to do this - I attempted to move Krisflyer miles to Velocity some months back. End result - my miles disappeared, and calls to Krisflyer and VA call centres both have them pointing fingers at each other with no resolution in sight.

I wouldn't mind so much if one or the other airline just took ownership and talked to the other one to sort it out - it would be more efficient for all involved