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How to extend the expiration of your
Singapore Airlines miles
Singapore Airlines miles ( Krisflyer miles ) are some of the easiest miles to populate since the program is a transfer partner of all 5 transferrable currencies: Amex, Chase, Citi, Capital One, and Marriott. We’ve used Singapore miles many times in the past for various redemptions including Singapore Suites, Lufthansa First Class, and business class between the US and Europe. One thing to keep in mind is that Singapore miles expire 3 years after they’re issued. You can, however, pay to extend them for an additional 6 to 12 months – here’s how we did it.
We used Singapore miles to fly Suites between Beijing and Singapore
Extending your Singapore Airlines Krisflyer Miles
Unfortunately, due to Covid, we had some miles expiring this year that needed to be extended beyond the typical 3 year expiration. Singapore did extend miles for many people, but ours were issued prior to Covid and for whatever reason were’t eligible for extension. If you have miles expiring in the next 6 months, you’ll see a notice that indicates how many are expiring when you check your account summary.
Terms for extending your Singapore miles
- Miles must be expiring in the next 6 months
- Can only extend 1 time
- Base members can extend for an additional 6 months vs Elite and PPS member can extend for one year
- Fee is 1200 miles or 12USD per 10k miles
Click “See All Expiring Miles”
After you click on “see all expiring miles” you’ll get a calendar function to peruse. This is a new image our my account that reflects just 410 miles expiring vs the nearly 150k miles we extended. This is important since you can only extend one time, so if you have miles expiring in 5 months, you may not want to extend those now and wait until you get closer to their expiration date.
At the very bottom you’ll see a button “extend miles”
Calculating how much you’ll pay
After you press it, you’ll get a calculator that allows you to choose how many miles you wish to extend. We had nearly 150k miles that were due to expire and inputted that number. It’s preloaded with the minimum charge for 10k miles to extend.
Choosing miles vs cash rate
As I mentioned we had nearly 150k miles which priced in at either 242 SGD or 18k miles. I chose to pay it vs spend another 18k miles – which equals roughly a penny a point.
After you’ve paid, they will extend for either 6 months or 12 months depending on your status.
Overall
It’s fairly straight forward and easy to extend the life of your Singapore miles, but I’d advise keeping an on them and avoid the situation we got ourselves into. Unfortunately, we ended up having to pay to avoid losing them, and will hopefully find a good use for them as the world reopens. Odds are we will use them to fly from the US to Europe for 72k miles a piece in business class ( I think this is one of the better uses) since we have a few trips planned back and forth before year’s end.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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