Ultimate Guide to Singapore Airlines First Class & Suites

When you fly Singapore Airlines Suites, you don’t just get a great seat. You also get a separate bed in your own private room in the sky – which you can even combine with the neighbouring Suite to create a double bed.

While Suites are only available on Singapore Airlines’ A380s, the airlines also offers First Class on its Boeing 777s. Either way, with a Singapore Airlines Suites or First Class ticket, you’ll enjoy fine dining and personalised service.

This guide explains what you can expect in Singapore Airlines First Class and Suites, and how you can experience it for yourself.

The difference between First Class and Suites

Singapore Airlines treats both First and Suites as First Class products – they’re the best product available on the planes that have them.

But Suites is Singapore Airlines’ flagship product, with even more bells and whistles than their regular First Class.

Regardless of which you book, you’ll get access to First Class lounges, including the Private Room at Changi Airport. Onboard, you’ll also get access to the famed Singapore Airlines Book the Cook.

Singapore Airlines First Class features

Firstly, you won’t find an aircraft equipped with both First and Suites Class.

The 27 Boeing 777-300ERs Singapore Airlines operates come with four First Class seats in a 1-2-1 configuration. Each seat is 35 inches wide – equivalent to two Economy seats!

While the seats have high, curved walls, there is no full door or curtain for privacy. Only four seats exist in the cabin, so it has an incredibly intimate feel. The middle pair of seats is good for couples, although the privacy partition cannot lower fully to form a double bed.

The seats feature ample storage, and a 24-inch TV screen with touchscreen controls.

The layout is similar to Emirates First Class on the Boeing 777, but without the sliding privacy doors.

Singapore Airlines Suites Class features

Singapore Airlines has six Suites on the upper deck of its A380s in a 1-1 configuration.

Each suite comes with a separate bed and chair. For take-off and landing, you’ll have to be in the recliner chair, as the bed folds up.

Walls and a door wrap around the suite, giving you near-complete privacy.

However, the partitions between suites 1A/2A or 1F/2F can be lowered. So if you’re travelling with someone in the neighbouring suite, you can turn your bed into a double to fully share the experience!

The chair can rotate to face your companion, stare out the window, or anything in between. The 32-inch TV can rotate to either face the chair or the bed, with the controls on the chair or below the console at the window.

After the Etihad Residence – which comes with a separate bedroom and bathroom – this is the most spacious product in the sky.

Singapore Airlines routes with Suites or First Class available

Suites are available on the following Singapore Airlines A380 routes:

Note that A380s don’t operate on every frequency for the above routes. For example, if you want Suites Class to/from Sydney, book either the SQ221/222 service or the SQ231/232 service.

The Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER fleet is much larger, so First Class is available on many more routes. You can find Boeing 777s equipped with First Class flying from Melbourne and Sydney, as well as onwards to Europe, including to Paris, London, Zurich and Frankfurt.

They also fly on many shorter routes like Jakarta, Beijing, and Tokyo. This means you can enjoy First Class on a flight that lasts less than two hours!

Singapore Airlines also uses Boeing 777s on two popular fifth-freedom routes, Frankfurt-New York and Tokyo Narita-Los Angeles.

How to fly Singapore Airlines Suites Class or First Class

Singapore Airlines charges high prices for Suites and First Class tickets, as you would expect for such a premium product. On routes with both Suites and First Class, the pricing is generally the same.

How much does Singapore Airlines First/Suites cost?

Airfares in Suites Class from Sydney to Singapore start from $4,406 one-way or $7,389 return, in Australian dollars.

A ticket from Melbourne to London in Singapore Airlines First Class, via Singapore, will set you back a whopping $17,967 round-trip.

While these are just two examples, flying Singapore Airlines Suites Class is an expensive proposition, regardless of route. The cheapest Suites fare I could find at the time of writing was $3,130 for a one-way ticket from Mumbai to Singapore.

The cheapest First Class flight that I found was from Jakarta to Singapore. This starts at $1,908 one-way.

Booking a seat with frequent flyer points

If you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend, the great news is that you can redeem points for Suites or First Class via Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer.

Singapore Airlines doesn’t make these awards available to book through partner airline programs such as Virgin Australia Velocity. So, the only way to book these is with KrisFlyer miles.

Don’t have KrisFlyer miles? You can transfer Velocity points to KrisFlyer. Or, you can transfer points from many Australian credit card reward programs into KrisFlyer.

Saver vs Advantage awards

KrisFlyer has two types of awards for Singapore Airlines redemptions: Saver and Advantage. Saver awards cost fewer miles, but have less availability and more restrictions.

For a First/Suites Saver award from Sydney or Melbourne to Singapore, you’ll pay 93,500 KrisFlyer miles plus between $100 and $130 in taxes and fees.

If you want to fly First Class or Suites from Australia to Europe, it’ll set you back 183,500 KrisFlyer miles plus $120 to $150 in taxes and fees for a Saver award.

However, these are pretty much theoretical, especially if you’re looking for Suites Class. When researching for this article, I couldn’t find a single Saver award between Sydney and Singapore in Suites Class, although there were occasionally some in First Class.

If you want to fly Suites Class, you’ll probably need to pay the higher Advantage rate. When I checked, there were even a few dates with two Advantage reward seats available between Sydney and Singapore.

Advantage awards between Australia and Singapore cost 155,000 KrisFlyer miles one-way, plus the same taxes and fees.

Availability remains limited even for Advantage awards, so I recommend securing seats early! You can still take advantage of the unique ability to waitlist awards on KrisFlyer, if your preferred seats aren’t available.

If you want to experience Suites Class but don’t have the flexibility or points balance to fly from Australia, you can often find one Saver award seat and two Advantage awards from Singapore to Mumbai on the A380.

Saver awards on this route cost just 58,500 KrisFlyer miles, while Advantage awards are 98,000 for the almost six-hour flight. You’d pay SGD65 (~AU$77) in taxes per person.

Wilson McTaggart

Wilson's love of travel started from a young age, but his love for points developed after figuring out ways to travel on a gap year for less - leading naturally towards Australian Frequent Flyer! Wilson's hobbies include skiing, cricket and planning trips, both with and without points.

Wilson posts on the AFF forum as @WilsonM.