EVERYONE has frequent flyer points and credit card points of some shape or form, but sadly most don’t really know how to use them and almost no one has a points plan.

That was the problem that Steve Hui, known on TV as ‘The Points Whisperer’ started solving 10 years ago when he founded IFLYFLAT. 

After 2 years of covid-19 shutdown, travel has returned in a big way as you can witness with the long airport lines and the sky-high airfares, but flying doesn’t need to be expensive once you understand how to utilise points to fly. You can fly for as low as $1,000 in Business Class to Europe or USA.

Many people are unaware they are sitting on a goldmine with their points.

Today Steve shares his FOUR-STEP PROCESS on how to make your points go further and use points to fly.

Compare the version of using 289,200 points to fly return Business Class to London under the Classis flight redemption method vs the 1+ million points under the Points plus pay method and you can see clearly which one is better. 

Helping his clients work this out and find the best frequent flyer seats that doesn’t involve too many stopovers is what Steve and his team at IFLYFLAT has been expert at for over 10 years. He believed everyone deserves to and can afford to fly Business Class when they play their points right. 

So why is Steve's business called iFLYflat? Well, if you're up the front of the plane you may find out!

1. Understand how many points you already have.
   1. During the pandemic, your points have stayed steady or gone up due to lots of online shopping, or they may have expired or about to expire.
   2. Tally up all your different points from different frequent flyer accounts. Think about what frequent flyer accounts you have, and log-in. Reset your passwords if you have forgotten the details.
   3. Tally up your credit card reward points
   4. Do the same for your partner, kids and your parents and grandparents
2. Understand how many points you need to fly.
   1. Each airline has their own version of the points calculator. Use google to search for Qantas points calculator, or Virgin points calculator or Singapore points calculator etc
   2. Look up a dream destination with the calculator and see how many points is required to fly there, have a play with the ‘points price’ to fly Economy, Business Class and even First Class
3. Know how many flights you may already have based on your current points, or know how many points you need to collect to have the points to fly
   1. If from Q1 you already have 300,000 points, and from Q#2 your ideal trip requires 100,000 points – then you have 3 flights in your pocket, ready to fly whenever you want to go.
   2. If from Q1 you have 300,000 points and from Q#2 your ideal trip requires 4 x 138,000 points, then you need 552,000 points to fly and need to focus on collecting the gap of 252,000 points to collect.
4. There are two methods of using points, a good way and a bad way.
   1. The first method of using points to fly is called the Qantas Classic Flight Redemptions method. Under this method the number of points to fly from A to B is the same number of points, 365 days a year. It does not fluctuate based on high demand. The points to fly from Sydney to London on Qantas is always 110,400 for return Economy or 289,200 for return Business Class flying on a Qantas plane.
   2. The second method of using points to fly is called the Points plus Pay method. This is where Qantas points are exchanged into money at a fixed rate of 1 Qantas point equals 0.7 cents and used to pay for the cash ticket value. So a $7,000 priced business class ticket to London would be charged 1,000,000 points (being 7000/0.007) and if on another day, that same ticket price changes to $8,000, then it will ask for 1,142,857 points (being 8000/0.007). 
   3. pare the version of using 289,200 points to fly return Business Class to London under the Classis flight redemption method vs the 1+ million points under the Points plus pay method and you can see clearly which one is better.

Helping his clients work this out and find the best frequent flyer seats that doesn’t involve too many stopovers is what Steve and his team at IFLYFLAT has been expert at for over 10 years. He believed everyone deserves to and can afford to fly Business Class when they play their points right. 

So why is Steve's business called iFLYflat? Well, if you're up the front of the plane you may find out!