Deal: Get 20% bonus Flying Blue miles when converting from selected HSBC and OCBC cards

KLM/Air France Flying Blue is running a limited-time offer for credit card miles conversions to the Frequent Flyer Program (FFP).

Key points to note

• Get 20% bonus miles for conversions from selected credit cards (see below)
• Bonus miles are uncapped
• Conversions have to be completed between 1 and 31 October 2023 (UTC +1)
• Offer page

Qualifying cards

In Singapore, Flying Blue is also a transfer partner of Standard Chartered and Citibank cards. However, this particular offer is only applicable to miles/points transfers made from the HSBC TravelOne card and OCBC STACK Rewards.

Remember, HSBC TravelOne points can be transferred to FFPs for free till 31 Dec 2023.

Additional note: A member of the group shared that his miles conversion from OCBC STACK Reward was completed almost instantly.

Miles/Points from the following cards can be converted to Flying Blue with a 20% bonus:

HSBC TravelOne

Earn 1.2 mpd on local spend, 2.4 mpd on foreign currency

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🎁 Sign-up bonus

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More information on the

HSBC TravelOne Mastercard

Suitesmile rating:

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✍️ Short summary
This card gives you an uncapped earn rate of 1.2 miles per dollar on SGD spending and 2.4 miles per dollar on foreign currency spending.

This is a great backup card, if you have exhausted all your specialized cards with better earn rates.

Having many transfer partners gives you fantastic flexibility. For this reason, I recommend using this card over other General Spending cards with similar earn rates.

Cardholders are also entitled to 4 free airport lounge visits (via DragonPass) per calendar year! For example, if you apply for the card in March 2023, you will get 4 free visits for the current year, plus 4 more free visits from 1 January the following year.

Cardholders also get complimentary access to the ENTERTAINER with HSBC app, where there are over a thousand 1-for-1 deals on dining, entertainment and hotels.

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💸 Annual fee
$196.20
(Get 25k points (10k miles) when you pay the annual fee from the 2nd year onwards. Get first-year waiver, if you don’t want the sign-up bonus.)

💼 Income requirement
$30,000/year

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

⏰ Points expiry
3 years from transaction
(37 to 38 months to be exact)

🫱‍🫲 Transfer partners
KrisFlyer, Asia Miles, Infinity MileageLands, Executive Club and more!

💯 Transfer ratio
2.5 points = 1 mile

🧮 Transfer block
25,000 points (10,000 miles)

💲Transfer fee
Free (till 31 jan 2025)

🤗 Points pooling
Points from this card can be combined with those from other HSBC cards and transferred out together at once.

❓How/When points are credited
Base points are credited immediately when the transaction is posted.

📜 Terms & conditions

OCBC Rewards

Earn 4 mpd or 2.78% cashback on selected online and offline shopping

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🎁 Sign-up bonus

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More information on the

OCBC Rewards Mastercard

Suitesmile rating:

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✍️ Short summary
This card gives you a strong earn rate of 4 miles per dollar at specific online/offline shopping merchants (e.g. clothing/shoes, toys, duty free, luggage etc.), up to $1,000 per calendar month.

Take note that cardholders will only earn 0.4 mpd on other categories and spending above $1,000 per calendar month.

However, at the moment, OCBC only has 2 transfer partners with decent transfer ratios; KrisFlyer and Flying Blue. As flexibility is very important in the Miles Game, I recommend maximizing the limits of other 4/6 mpd cards first, before using this one.

Not into Miles or travel-hacking? Redeem your points for 2.78% cashback instead, on the aforementioned spending categories.

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💸 Annual fee
$196.20
(First 2 years waived)

💼 Income requirement
$30,000/year

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%
(Lower this fee by linking this card to Amaze)

⏰ Points expiry
2 years from transaction

🫱‍🫲 Transfer partners
KrisFlyer, Flying Blue

💯 Transfer ratio
2.5 OCBC$ = 1 mile

🧮 Transfer block
25,000 OCBC$ (10,000 miles)

💲Transfer fee
$25 per transfer

🤗 Points pooling
OCBC$ from this card cannot be combined with those from other OCBC cards.

❓How/When points are credited
Earn 5 base point per $5 dollar spent, plus 45 bonus points for eligible shopping transactions (equivalent to 4 mpd in total). Base points are credited immediately when the transaction is posted, while bonus points are credited by the end of the following calendar month.

📜 Terms & conditions

Best ways to use Flying Blue miles

In my opinion, Flying Blue is an underrated FFP among Singapore-based travellers.

This is probably because it adopts dynamic award pricing on KLM/Air France-operated flights and passes on fuel surcharges (if any) on award bookings.

Allow me to share a common “mantra” among members of Suitesmile Chat:

“The best FFP is the one that has award availability“

….at Saver rate and for immediate confirmation (no waitlist), if I may add.

Because of its unpopularity, I tend to find Business Class award availability fairly easily, even a couple of months prior to the peak travel season in November/December!

Let’s have a look at a couple of examples:

Related: Cheapest ways to fly between Singapore and Europe using Miles/Points from Singapore cards

Additional note: If you do not plan to redeem Flying Blue miles in the coming months, I do not recommend transferring your credit card miles/points speculatively for this transfer bonus.

Here are some good ways to redeem Flying Blue miles:

Bottom line

Flying Blue is running a 20% transfer bonus for miles/points conversions from selected credit cards made by 31 October 2023.

Travellers still looking for award space for travel in the coming months should try to check if they find something that works on airfrance.sg or klm.sg.

H/T: Aloysius Boo from Suitesmile Chat