{"version":"1.9","identifier":"18b15b92-9b06-45a0-9617-c9c96e388936","language":"en-US","title":"Kris+ is paying 10 miles per dollar at 300 Sydney and Melbourne merchants until October 31","layout":{"columns":7,"width":1024,"margin":32,"gutter":20},"componentLayouts":{"text":{"columnStart":0,"columnSpan":7,"maximumContentWidth":720,"margin":{"top":12,"bottom":12}},"photo":{"columnStart":0,"columnSpan":7,"margin":{"top":20,"bottom":20}}},"componentTextStyles":{"default":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":18,"lineHeight":29,"textColor":"#171717"},"headline":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue-Bold","fontSize":36,"lineHeight":42,"conditional":[{"conditions":{"maxViewportWidth":480},"fontSize":28,"lineHeight":34}]},"intro":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":20,"lineHeight":28,"textColor":"#555555"},"caption":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":13,"lineHeight":19,"textColor":"#666666"},"byline":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":13,"lineHeight":20,"textColor":"#666666"},"body":{"fontName":"HelveticaNeue","fontSize":18,"lineHeight":29,"paragraphSpacingAfter":14,"linkStyle":{"textColor":"#00704a"}}},"metadata":{"canonicalURL":"https://www.pointsfrog.com/news/kris-plus-birthday-bash-10-miles-per-dollar-australia-october-2026","datePublished":"2026-10-20T17:08:11.140405Z","dateModified":"2026-10-20T17:08:45.529271Z","authors":["Patrick Karsh"],"excerpt":"Singapore Airlines' sixth Kris+ Birthday Bash lifts the earn rate at every Australian partner to 10 KrisPay miles per A$1, with no cap and no registration, through the end of October. Singapore's own rate is 8 miles per S$1.","thumbnailURL":"https://pub-fac99da959e344fe99d810d309cef7df.r2.dev/photos/article/18b15b92-9b06-45a0-9617-c9c96e388936/4b451c22bbb4fd88fcf4d64a67111248.jpg","keywords":["airline"],"generatorName":"Frog News","generatorVersion":"1.0"},"components":[{"role":"title","text":"Kris+ is paying 10 miles per dollar at 300 Sydney and Melbourne merchants until October 31","textStyle":"headline","layout":"text"},{"role":"intro","text":"Singapore Airlines' sixth Kris+ Birthday Bash lifts the earn rate at every Australian partner to 10 KrisPay miles per A$1, with no cap and no registration, through the end of October. Singapore's own rate is 8 miles per S$1.","textStyle":"intro","layout":"text"},{"role":"byline","text":"By Patrick Karsh · Published October 20, 2026","textStyle":"byline","layout":"text"},{"role":"photo","URL":"https://pub-fac99da959e344fe99d810d309cef7df.r2.dev/photos/article/18b15b92-9b06-45a0-9617-c9c96e388936/4b451c22bbb4fd88fcf4d64a67111248.jpg","caption":"The Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore Airlines' home. Kris+ pays 10 KrisPay miles per A$1 at Sydney and Melbourne partners through October 31, 2026. Representative photo. · Matteo Morando / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0","accessibilityCaption":"The Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore Airlines' home. Kris+ pays 10 KrisPay miles per A$1 at Sydney and Melbourne partners through October 31, 2026. Representative photo.","layout":"photo"},{"role":"caption","text":"The Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore Airlines' home. Kris+ pays 10 KrisPay miles per A$1 at Sydney and Melbourne partners through October 31, 2026. Representative photo. · Matteo Morando / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0","textStyle":"caption","layout":"text"},{"role":"body","format":"markdown","text":"## The offer\n\nKris+, Singapore Airlines' pay-and-earn app, turns six this month and is marking it the way it does every year: by raising the earn rate for October. In Australia, every one of the roughly 300 participating merchants in Sydney and Melbourne pays 10 KrisPay miles per Australian dollar from October 1 to October 31, 2026, in place of the usual 3, 6 or 9. Selected online partners are included, among them JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys digital gift cards bought in the app. There is no cap on the 10-mile rate and no registration; the miles land in the app the moment you pay. The details are in [Singapore Airlines' October 1 release](https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/corporate/newsroom/press-release/2026/oct-to-dec-2026/Birthday_Bash_Kris_Plus/) and on the [Kris+ Australia page](https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/au/ppsclub-krisflyer/use-miles/krisplus/).\n\nWith eleven days left as of October 20, the offer is still running.\n\n## How to use it\n\nYou pay with the Kris+ app by scanning the merchant's QR code, with a Visa or Mastercard loaded through Apple Pay or Google Pay; American Express is not accepted for Kris+ in Australia. KrisPay miles must be transferred to KrisFlyer within 21 days at 1:1, and the app can do that automatically from the Wallet menu. Whatever your credit card earns on the purchase comes on top, so a card that pays a mile or more per dollar on dining pushes the combined rate past 11 miles per dollar on a restaurant bill.\n\n[Mainly Miles](https://mainlymiles.com/2026/10/08/kris-plus-10-mpd-all-australia-partners/) counted 163 merchants in Sydney and 156 in Melbourne, up from about 200 a year ago. Most are restaurants, cafes and bars. The gift card route through JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys is the way to earn on a big purchase, within the app's limit of four gift cards a day.\n\n## What it is worth\n\nOur [KrisFlyer calculator](https://www.pointsfrog.com/points-value/krisflyer) values a mile at about 1.3 US cents, roughly 1.8 Australian cents. At 10 miles per dollar, a A$100 dinner returns about A$18 in miles, an 18% rebate. A couple spending A$1,500 on eating out and gift cards over the month would bank 15,000 KrisFlyer miles, close to the price of a one-way Saver economy award from Sydney to Singapore. For a Sydney or Melbourne resident who was going to spend the money anyway, it is the best earn rate on everyday spending that any airline program offers in Australia.\n\n## Compared with past years\n\nThe Australian rate was 10 miles per dollar in 2024, 15 in 2025 and is back to 10 in 2026, with the merchant count roughly 50% higher than last year. In Singapore the Birthday Bash pays 8 miles per S$1 at 65 partners, down from 9 last year and 10 the year before, with weekly 50%-off vouchers and new-user codes on top.\n\n## Two things to check\n\nThe official Birthday Bash Australia page still showed the 2025 edition's 15-mile rate when we looked, which has confused some readers; the 2026 rate is 10, and the press release and the Kris+ Australia page are the authoritative sources. And the miles are KrisPay miles until you move them, so set the auto-transfer before the first purchase. Miles that sit in the app past 21 days are gone.\n\n## Photo credit\n\nMatteo Morando / Wikimedia Commons. [Original photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JewelSingaporeVortex1.jpg); [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Cropped and badged for this page. The adapted image is shared under the same license.","textStyle":"body","layout":"text"}]}