Cost of a round-trip Economy Saver Award ticket in 2014 Nov
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\nSQ Krisflyer (SINGAPORE > SAN FRAN Round trip)
\n= 70,000 miles + tax
\n= 59,500 miles + tax (After 15% discount for miles if booked online)
\n= 59,500 + ($25 citibank admin fee) + 806.40 (TAX)
\n= 59,500 + $831.40
\nCost of a round-trip Economy Saver ticket from SQ 2015 Jul
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\nTravel dates: Wed 01 Jul 2015 – Tue 14 Jul 2015
\nPrice from SQ website:
\n= $1,604.20<\/p>\n
Actual fare = $900
\nAirport\/Gov Tax = $118.20
\nCarrier surcharge = $586.00
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\nTotal taxes = $704.20 (118.2 + 586)<\/p>\n
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If you take the difference into account as a rough gauge:<\/p>\n
58,500 miles + $831.40 = $1604.20
\n58,500 miles = $772.80
\n1,000 miles = $13.21<\/p>\n
Earn rate for:
\nCitibank Premiermiles : $1 = 1.2 miles
\n1,000 Premiermiles = $834<\/p>\n
> You need to spend $834 locally to get 1,000 Premiermiles.
\n> To get 54,500 miles, you need to spend $45,416.67 locally.<\/p>\n
If you spend $1,000 per month, you need 39 months to chalk 54,500 miles.
\nIf you spend $2,000 per month, you need 19.5 months to chalk 54,500 miles.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are other methods to gain points, like making overseas purchases with the same card gives you a rate of 1.5 miles. Or using alternative cards to make expensive purchases for better points\/cashback.<\/p>\n
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\nOCBC Frank 6% online shoppping cashback rate: 6%
\nIf you happen to spend $500 per month online, you get $30 back. $1,604 \/ $30 = 54 months<\/p>\n
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DBS Altitude Visa\u00a0Express Card<\/p>\n
$1 = 1.2 miles (first $2,000 spent\/month)
\n$1 = 1.6 miles (over $2,000 spent\/month)<\/p>\n
$1 = 3 miles for all online flight\/hotel transactions (Capped at $10,000\/month)
\n$1 = 2 miles for all overseas spend
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Maybank Horizon Platinum Visa Card
\n$1 = 2 air miles (5 tr’eats points) for purchase of air ticket(s)\/travel package(s) and overseas transactions<\/p>\n
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ANZ Travel Visa Signature Credit Card
\n$1 = 1.4 air miles for local spend
\n$1 = 2.8 air miles for spend in Australia and New Zealand or on flights with Qantas and Jetstar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cost of a round-trip Economy Saver Award ticket in 2014 Nov ——————————————————— SQ Krisflyer (SINGAPORE > SAN FRAN Round trip) = 70,000 miles + tax = 59,500 miles + tax (After 15% discount for miles if booked online) = 59,500 + ($25 citibank admin fee) + 806.40 (TAX) = 59,500 + $831.40 Cost of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenshinjeff.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}