Cathay last week revamped their Asia Miles program so that you can now earn more miles when flying, use less miles when redeeming (eg Mumbai used to be 45k miles return now cut to 20k, or Singapore from 30k to 20k, etc), and there are 20% more seats available.
I've always thought AM was was pretty shit and last year I failed to redeem anything I was waitlisted on, I'm flying more low cost airlines these days, so I gave up and switched all my credit cards over to cash back instead of miles (eg I cut up my Standard Chartered Asia miles card and got a Simply cash card instead).
Now with these changes, I am wondering if I should switch my credit cards back and jump on the AM bandwagon again, or just forget it and stick with the cashback and don't look back. What do you guys think of these new AM changes and will they affect your flying and spending patterns?
Cathay Pacific’s Asia Miles shake-up means 80 per cent of flights will earn more in loyalty programme | South China Morning Post