Great Deal: DBS Altitude offering 5 mpd on Online Travel and Foreign Currency spending

Heads up, DBS Altitude card is offering 5 miles per dollar for Online Travel and Foreign Currency spending in the next few months.

Key points to note

• Register in your DBS PayLah! app every calendar month
• Pre-registration for the month of September is now open
• Limited to the first 10,000 cardholders to register each calendar month
• 5 mpd on Online Travel: 1 Sep till 31 Oct 2024
• 5 mpd on Foreign Currency Spending: 1 Nov till 31 Dec 2024
• Min. spend of S$1,000 required by end of registered month
• Bonus miles capped at S$2,000 worth of spending per calendar month
• Applies to Visa and AMEX versions of the card
• Supplementary cardholders are not eligible, but spending on supp. cards count towards principal cardholder’s total
• Stack this promo with 2 other DBS/POSB promos to get an additional $88 cashback and $200 cashback
• T&Cs
• FAQs

💡 Click on + Card Summary below to view key details like pros & cons, miles/cashback details, annual fee, income requirement, and more.

DBS Altitude

Earn 1.3 mpd on local spend, 2.2 mpd on foreign currency

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DBS Altitude Visa Signature Card

Suitesmile rating:

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✍️ Short summary
This card gives you an earn rate of 1.3 miles per dollar on SGD spending, and 2.2 miles per dollar on foreign currency transactions.

Other great features include 2 free airport lounge visits per year (Visa version only) and that the miles/points earned on this card do not expire.

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💸 Annual fee
$196.20
(First year waived, always request for a waiver after that)
Note: Annual fee payments come with 10,000 miles (not worth it)

💼 Income requirement
$30,000/year

🤑 Foreign currency fee
AMEX: 3%
Visa: 3.25%

🛋️ Airport lounge access
2 free lounge visits per card membership year
(Visa version only, via Priority Pass)

⏰ Points expiry
Points earned from this card do not expire!

🫱‍🫲 Transfer partners
KrisFlyer, Asia Miles, Qantas Frequent Flyer

💯 Transfer ratio
1 point = 2 miles

🧮 Transfer block
5,000 point (10,000 miles)

💲Transfer fee
$27.25 per transfer

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

❓How/When points are credited
Base points are credited immediately when the transaction is posted, while bonus points are credited around the middle of the following calendar month.

📜 Terms & conditions

Here’s a little infographic that DBS has put together for this promo:

What kinds of Online Travel transactions count?

Bottom line

The DBS Altitude card recently had its key feature nerfed, and is now just an average General Spending card. This offer makes it a worthy card once again, for those travelling in the coming months.

I don’t expect any reader to still hold on to the DBS Altitude card, but if you are travelling in the next few months, and do not already have the card, I would consider signing up for it. Miles earned on this card never expire, and cardholders get 2 complimentary airport lounge visits per year.

Remember to register for the offer every calendar month from now till 31 Dec 2024!