1. What is Air Asia BIG?
BIG is Air Asia's Loyalty programme for customers to collect points or air miles and redeem in-flight services, free tickets, discounted air fares or to exchange points with other loyalty programmes. AirAsia Big as renamed their loyalty programme as Big rewards recently (the logo on the right).
2. Why need to save BIG points?
If you want to book AirAsia flight tickets at discounted rates, this is one of the feasible ways. I booked flights to Sydney, Tokyo and many local destinations in Malaysia for almost 50-60% cheaper than the normal rates using my BIG points. Would you believe that I got my return air tickets to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur for MYR 29 only? In this blog post, I would like to explain on several methods to earn more BIG points.
3. How to earn more BIG points?
a) Register as a BIG member
Your first step is to register as a BIG member at no additional cost via www.airasiabig.com or BIG loyalty app. You will automatically earn air miles whenever you book a flight via AirAsia app or when you manually key in your BIG ID while doing your booking on the website. However, MYR 1 spent is equivalent to 1 or 2 BIG points only. So, I will explain what are the other methods to collect more points. You can apply this to many other air miles of different flights too.
b) Credit Card Points
Apply for credit cards that offer points collection for every transaction made. Some credit cards offer points conversion to BIG points, depending on the cards' perks. For an example, Citibank Rewards card offers 2000 Citi points to be converted to 500 BIG points. There are also dedicated travel credit cards linked to certain flight companies for extra points collection. As for Air Asia, the latest travel card is offered by Hong Leong Bank (https://www.hlb.com.my/en/personal-banking/credit-cards/travel/airasia-credit-card.html).
If you are a disciplined pay master, try cashless payment for most of your daily transactions to allow more points redemption. Well, it is good to go cashless at this very point of time.
c) Samsung Pay
d) Big Pay Card
Big Pay by Air Asia is a payment feature, or better known in a lay man's term as money card. You card use it like a Mastercard at many merchants like a credit card but the difference is you have to top up the card to enable transactions. This card auto-syncs with your BIG ID and you will earn BIG points for every transaction made via this card. Big Pay offers lower exchange fees for foreign currency exchange and therefore this is a suitable card if you are a frequent traveler and do not prefer to carry a big sum of cash in hand. This card is also recommended to those not confident in using credit cards worrying of debts.
e) Other partnership
Air Asia also allow points conversion from other partners such as Maybank Treats, Petronas Mesra, Agoda PointsMAX, etc. Please check their partner listing in their official webpage.
Air Asia Big offers redemption promotion in their app to selected destinations every now and then. Use your points to book during the promo period to enjoy cheap flights or free flights to your preferred destinations. Points used to book a flight cannot be refunded in case of flight cancellations but you can opt to change the date and time of the same flight routes. I know it is the pandemic season now, but why not collect as many points as you can and travel once the outbreak settles down. You can direct message to me on Instagram 'theroytravels' or please leave a comment below if you have any questions. Hope this information will prove Air Asia's motto right, "Now Everyone Can Fly".
"Before You Run Out of Time"
Powell Roy Louis @ theroytravels
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