I gotta rectify an error I inadvertently made - I just had a chance to flip through again the welcome brochure. We can only collect the air miles from participating companies obviously. I didn't notice the companies were that limited but, maybe because this particular reward programme is just starting off. I'm used to these reward programmes being more widely participated by merchants / vendors / sellers but ...

So anyway, in my case, I'll have to look for Mannai Air Travel or the few others listed to book my subsequent flights.

There's a middle page in the brochure which I took out, which has the participating companies' logos printed, so I'll use that as a guide.

Apologies for my last sentence in my post above. Was too busy and missed the information in the brochure. And also, there's no need to use a credit card for purchases to collect the points. Can use cash BUT if use HSBC's CC, then we collect air miles from both HSBC and the merchant - additional points to work towards redeeming whatever..

/But if use HSBC cc, will also collect points. Hmm.. ok. After the 1st few purchases and trouble with HSBC, I've not bothered to use the cc.. it's been 0 ... Any more trouble with HSBC and you can bet almost the whole world will hear about it. ... and that's way past chance No. 4...

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