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High flyer

Steven Hui always flies at the pointy end of an aircraft. It’s not that he’s loaded. Rather, he has cracked onto a system for using frequent flyer points after stacking up plenty of them while working at Macquarie Bank.

He set up iFLYflat seven years ago, and now shares his secrets by booking free business and first-class seats for customers of his travel agency. He’s leading the high life as a business owner, as those who follow his exploits can see from the frequent travel snaps he posts online.

“Because I’m accounting and finance minded, there’s nothing I like more than a bargain,” says Hui. “This seemed to be the biggest one of them of all. You can collect frequent flyer points for no effort and trade them for something really expensive. It’s a bit like alchemy. That’s when my bug

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