Delhi - Istanbul - Venice - Rome - Delhi in business class for paltry 90,000 miles, plus taxes and fees. 🤯 Aeroplan prices awards by the distance you actually fly. From Delhi, large parts of Europe short of London, Paris and Spain is 40,000 points one-way in business, as long as the whole routing stays under 4,000 miles. Add a stopover for 5,000 more and you see two cities for 45,000. Do it both ways and you see three cities for 90,000.

Penultimate step towards my dream card stack ✅ HSBC Premier account opened, debit card in hand. One step left: the credit card 🤞

OG Air India Co branded Card

Follow-up on my Europe-in-December plan. Pricing a business class award, Bangalore → Rome: ✈️ Air India miles: 125,000 ✈️ Same flight via KrisFlyer: 68,000 (≈45% fewer miles) Almost crazy that with miles, a business class ticket to Europe costs just ₹2,900 in taxes and fees.

Most of my stays this year has been in budget properties.

I am at branch now to complete the premiere formalities. 🤞

India has pretty much been excluded this time, except limited options from Ahmedabad to Singapore

Krisflyer Spontaneous escape for November is now live. 30% off Saver award rates to selected destinations across the Singapore Airlines network. 15% off Economy Saver award tickets on selected Scoot flights. @SingaporeAir

About 15 months stash...3 EMT vouchers so far...yet to use Taj Epicure night...great option when need revenue flights