{"id":2401,"date":"2024-10-07T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2024-10-07T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:16:08","slug":"chasing-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/07\/chasing-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s odd that I&#8217;m only starting to really chase miles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had DBS Altitude and Citi Premier Miles cards for awhile now, but because the accumulated points don&#8217;t have any expiry, I simply just spend and forget about it. After using the cards for like more than 5 years, I&#8217;ve got about 100K of miles in my DBS Altitude and about 150K miles in my Citi PM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;ve just applied for the Krisflyer UOB Mastercard &#8211; I mean, considering I&#8217;m solely flying SQ nowadays, that 3mpd is simply too good to pass on. I&#8217;m also using Kris+ to pay wherever possible&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why only now though, to be chasing miles? Maybe because I finally have enough miles to redeem business class flights, and I could finally have the flexibility in my travel dates (since I can travel on my own now without waiting for anyone to confirm their dates). I can finally go for cards with points expiry, because I can get the points transferred to Krisflyer miles and topping them up with my DBS\/Citibank miles (without expiry) for business class flights redemption, at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*rubs hands in anticipation*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World of miles, here I come! :D<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s odd that I&#8217;m only starting to really chase miles. I&#8217;ve had DBS Altitude and Citi Premier Miles cards for awhile now, but because the accumulated points don&#8217;t have any expiry, I simply just spend and forget about it. After using the cards for like more than 5 years, I&#8217;ve got about 100K of miles<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/07\/chasing-miles\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BeXn-CJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}