KrisFlyer miles are very popular, offering great-value reward seats on Singapore Airlines and some partner airlines, including Star Alliance carriers. It’s easy to boost your balance by transferring miles into your KrisFlyer account.
Aside from flying, the main way to earn KrisFlyer miles in Australia is through bank reward programs, such as American Express Membership Rewards and ANZ Rewards.
Transfer promotions to KrisFlyer happen once in a blue moon, so it’s definitely worth thinking about transferring your points over when a deal is on.
How to earn KrisFlyer Elite status without flying!
| Expiry: Have your points converted by 11:59 pm AWST, 28 February 2022 |
Until 28 February 2022, you’ll be able to earn extra Elite miles when you transfer bank points. Elite miles are like Status Credits – earn enough and you could unlock KrisFlyer Elite Silver or Gold status without actually flying!
You just need to transfer at least 10,000 KrisFlyer miles to start earning Elite miles. You’ll earn one Elite mile for every five KrisFlyer miles converted.
Here’s what it takes to unlock KrisFlyer Elite Silver or Gold status from scratch:
KrisFlyer Elite Silver: 25,000 Elite miles (transfer over 125,000 KrisFlyer miles)
KrisFlyer Elite Gold: 50,000 Elite miles (transfer over 250,000 KrisFlyer miles)
Better yet, this offer stacks with a bonus 12-month status extension! So if you transfer 500,000 American Express Membership Rewards points over to KrisFlyer, you could pocket 250,000 spendable miles and a free upgrade to KrisFlyer Elite Gold!
As a best-case scenario, if your new KrisFlyer Elite Gold membership end date is February 2023, you’ll then be eligible for a further 12-month extension to February 2024. (If it’s earlier, then you’ll get 12 months from that earlier date instead).
With KrisFlyer Elite Gold, you gain access to Singapore Airlines and Star Alliance lounges before eligible flights. You can also access Virgin Australia domestic lounges with one guest when flying Virgin Australia within Australia! Add to that priority airport processing including priority check-in, boarding and luggage.
Summing up
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer has many sweet spots for Australian travellers, such as the popular Perth-Singapore-South East Asia flights for just 36,500 KrisFlyer miles one-way in Business Class. From the eastern states, these flights become 62,000 miles one-way for Business Class.
Taxes and surcharges are generally low with Singapore Airlines redemptions, so you won’t need to fork out too much extra cash for your ticket. Finally, check out the best ways to use KrisFlyer miles so you can start planning your 2022 holiday sooner. Keep in mind that KrisFlyer miles usually expire after a few years.
Thx
Am i missing somethin here as i read few others here have got Gold by transferring 250k miles.
Would appreciate your input. Cheers
Worst luck I wasn’t planing on traveling till after Feb so I was hoping the extra 1 year was going to happen.
Thx.
I transferred a bunch of Marriott points into KrisFlyer two weeks ago, which amounted to over 25,000 Elite Miles. However, my KrisFlyer was not upgraded to Silver.
I emailed and phoned KrisFlyer, but only received a bunch of ‘call centre nonsense’ (they hadn’t heard of the promotion and then didn’t read my email concern correctly…)
What can I do to chase Sing for my Siver owed!??
I was actually intending to transfer more to reach gold, but now I’m wondering if the promotion can be trusted.
Definitely not the customer service experience expected of Singapore Airlines.
Just wondering if I travel with my wife and my 2 y.o can they enjoy the benefit as well?
Thank you
I’m currently holding Silver status. Do I only need to transfer 125,000 to get Gold status from Silver?
Thank you
“And since your membership end date will be February 2023, you’ll then be eligible for a further 12-month extension to February 2024.”
My renewal month is May 22, so my new KF Gold status will be rolled/extended for 12 months from them and so only extends to end of May 23, not Feb 24 – which is only 15 months – nine months, or 2/3rds less than the 24 months your article seemed to suggest. 🙁
You might want to update your article, to make this clear.
QFF and KrisFlyer are two completely separate programs that don’t even have a partnership so you can’t transfer between the two or use miles from one on the others airline. As far as I know, there are no programs that you can transfer QFF miles to so you’re stuck with them.
Thanks
So am I getting this right: If I’m going to earn 15.600 more elite miles by any possible way (already got an active booking on TAP which should take me about 10.000 elite miles closer), does this mean that I’m getting Krisflyer Gold membership which lasts from let’s say April 2022 (assuming I’ve got all needed elite miles by then) until the end of January 2024(!)? Or am I getting something wrong?
Once again thanks for your great ideas here!!
Thanks for the update/article. Hope you are going well/keeping well.
Can I please check if one transfers points into the KrisFlyer program, is there an ability to transfer back into the original program e.g. Velocity etc? ( subject to when this option is made available online that is)?
Regards,
Param
Also, booked for Europe next year not sure of an issue. Was looking at the 7 day rolling average of cases a day or 2 ago and Australia was higher than Italy and a few others.
I’m Velocity Plat but don’t think that counts anyhow with Singapore, this will expire by the time travel is up properly again.
I have to fly to UK next week, given caps I splashed out on first with singapore. Wanted to maximise this e.g. get 25% bonus from Krisflyer silver.
I transferred 54000 worth of Krisflyer from Westpac card. Last years Business class flights booked on Krisflyer points – that I had transferred from Velocity specially for this – so didn’t get any elite flyer miles for them. Just refunded those points thinking they would count towards Krisflyer silver but they don’t – and now means they are more likely to expire before I can use them! Wish I had waited until next March when the rebooked cancelled flight would have expired.
Have applied for ANZ Black and if this comes through could get their 180,000 points translating to 60,000 Krisflyer- this would be after outbound journey though. still not enough to get sufficient elite miles but should be when combined with outbound real miles.
Do you have any other suggestions?
thanks!
But I’m just wondering what’s your take on whether we are going to actually able to use KFF points (assuming they get the virus under control) to Europe anytime soon.
I’m just nervous about transferring them over and then being caught by the 3 year rule …
I personally wouldn’t transfer over KrisFlyer miles solely for a Europe trip just yet, but if you could have a back-up plan to go to Asia when there are travel bubbles, it could be safer.
Who knows, maybe KrisFlyer will have another promotion in a year’s time!