HSBC Star Alliance credit card in Australia

[MEL_Traveller]

excellent, you are all over it with your knowledge

looks like ill cancel the card, keep the star alliance and aeroplan acc open and will wait for a aeroplan sale + transfer the star alliance points to kris

Or transfer to aeroplan rather than kris. No expiry on points, and awards far cheaper on aeroplan than via KF (45k one way to asia vs 68.5k, for business one way, flying SQ.) Aeroplan doesn’t have access to sq F however, and you also get advantage awards via KF. But generally speaking availability is very good for sq via aeroplan.

 

[SOPOOR]

Or transfer to aeroplan rather than kris. No expiry on points, and awards far cheaper on aeroplan than via KF (45k one way to asia vs 68.5k, for business one way, flying SQ.) Aeroplan doesn’t have access to sq F however, and you also get advantage awards via KF. But generally speaking availability is very good for sq via aeroplan.

Awesome! Is there a sale for star to aeroplan transfers?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Awesome! Is there a sale for star to aeroplan transfers?

Per another thread here, there seems to be a bonus for converting Star alliance points to Krisflyer. Don’t know if this is a one off or ongoing.

Star alliance points usually convert 1->.8, there’s no money or sale involved in that. But i think to convert to sq you currently get 25% bonus?

Whether other star carriers have promotions later is anyone’s guess.

aeroplan’s sale is just like qantas’ top up points sale, or BA’s avios sale. You buy when they are offering significant bonuses or discounts.

 

[RooFlyer]

@SOPOOR don't forget that the aeroplan bonuses being quoted are to buy the maximum range of points. For instance (and I'm making up the figures) you spend US$2,000+ to buy 200,00+ points (plus the 100% bonus). If you only want to buy, say US$500 for 50,000+ points, the bonus might only be 75%. Again, made up figures but you usually need to spend quite a bit to get the 'headline' bonus'

 

[MEL_Traveller]

@SOPOOR don't forget that the aeroplan bonuses being quoted are to buy the maximum range of points. For instance (and I'm making up the figures) you spend US$2,000+ to buy 200,00+ points (plus the 100% bonus). If you only want to buy, say US$500 for 50,000+ points, the bonus might only be 75%. Again, made up figures but you usually need to spend quite a bit to get the 'headline' bonus'

Some of them are tiered, but often the tier can start at 50k to get the 100% bonus (enough to buy an asia return). Onemileatatime often quotes the max purchase, but it can be much much lower once you log in.