DBS Altitude card offering 5 mpd at Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand

DBS Altitude card is offering 5 miles per dollar on select overseas spending.

Key points to note

• Promo: Earn 5 mpd on in-person spending in Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand
• Promo Period: 1 May till 30 Jun 2025
• Registration: Register in your DBS PayLah! app every calendar month
• Min. Spend: S$2,000 per calendar month (any currency)
• Max. Spend: S$1,200 per calendar month (3,360 bonus miles cap)
• Crediting: Bonus points will be credited within 60 days after each promo period (i.e. by Jul/Aug 2025)
• Eligible Cards: Applies to Visa and AMEX versions of the card
• Limited to the first 10,000 cardholders to register each calendar month
• Supplementary cardholders are not eligible, but spending on supp. cards count towards principal cardholder’s total
• Foreign currency fee remains at 3.25%
• DBS Altitude’s points don’t expire

Is this a good deal?

This promo is nowhere near as good as last year’s. Here’s why:

• Only in-person spending at Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand counts
• Cardholders need to spend min. S$2,000 per month to unlock the 5 mpd earn rate, but only rewarded on the first S$1,200 of spending per month, which means that cardholders will only earn 1.3 or 2.2 mpd on at least S$800 worth of spending (e.g. Spending exactly S$2,000 at eligible country gives you an effective earn rate of 3.88 mpd at best)
• A 3.25% FX fee means that you’d be paying for those miles

Related: Best cards for foreign currency spending

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DBS Altitude

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

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DBS Altitude Visa Signature Card

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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:

Terms and conditions

DBS shared the following terms and conditions for this promo:

Frequently Asked Questions

DBS shared the following FAQs for this promo: