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

Suitesmile rating:

✍️ 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. However, this card has a poor transfer ratio to KrisFlyer, a great frequent flyer program for travels to regions like Australia, New Zealand, Mainland China, India and Istanbul.

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
S$196.20
(Get 30k points (12k 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
S’porean/PR: S$30,000 – S$65,000
Foreigner: S$65,000

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

🛋️ Airport lounge access
4 free visits per calendar year
(via DragonPass)

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

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

💯 Transfer ratio
2.5 points = 1 mile

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

💲Transfer fee
Free

🤗 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

Suitesmile rating:

✍️ Short summary
This card gives you a strong earn rate of 4 miles per dollar on online and in-person shopping at places with specific merchant categories (mainly clothing/shoes, toys, duty free, luggage etc.), up to S$1,000 per calendar month, with no minimum spending requirement.

Cardholders will only earn 0.4 mpd on other spending.

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 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
S$196.20
(First 2 years waived)

💼 Income requirement
S$30,000/year (S’porean/PR aged 55 and below),
S$15,000/year (S’porean/PR aged 56 and above),
S$45,000/year (Foreigner)

🤑 Foreign currency fee
3.25%

⏰ 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
S$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 S$5 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