Waitlist on SQ Saver flights

[pleffer]

Hi All;
I know the is a pretty general question but I was hoping if anyone could share eperience on getting waitlist flight on SQ reward flights "Saver".

Any knowledge on how often these become available?

I am PPS if that helps in the waitlist?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Absolutely PPS will help you. Dates? Flt details? KF call Ctr your best friend - ask and they shall answer - if I can help am happy to try.

 

[vantage03]

My understanding from hearing other PPS member experiences is that they regularly clear for PPS members.
As an ex-silver / blue KF member (as I almost always fly SQ on points), Fist Class / Suites savers *sometimes* open.
If you are departing Australia, it's the Australian SQ office which has to open the seats for you - not the call centre. This is probably different for PPS members though.
It also appears to have nothing to do with loadings, as I recently had 2x Suites seats open for me SYD-SIN on a flight that had 75% First class full (the most I've ever seen on an SQ A380 First).
Then, the next leg I wanted (SIN-FRA A380) the cabin literally had 1 seat booked according to Expert Flyer (confirmed by check-in girl in SYD) and even at T-12 hours they wouldn't open it up for me.
Roll the dice and good luck!

 

[thehound]

I need to book some flights from PER to ZRH in December, but can only find standard awards on my dates. Given there is is only one flight a day to ZRH from SIN, what is the best way to both lock in a standard but waitlist on a saver?

I want the 1730-2245 PER-SIN, then 0130-0750 SIN-ZRH but it's only available on standard. The next flight down has the same SIN-ZRH leg but a 1420-1935 PER-SIN leg (also no saver available); but the system won't let me waitlist one of these legs in saver and select the other as standard. Is this because the SIN-ZRH flight is the same flight and one can't be both waitlisted and confirmed on the same flight?

Any suggestions for how to get around this? If I lock in the standard fare, can I just make a separate booking waitlisting the saver fare, and then if it clears cancel the standard one? Or will the system then automatically cancel the bookings because the same passenger name will be booked twice on the same flight?

 

[albatross710]

Any suggestions for how to get around this? If I lock in the standard fare, can I just make a separate booking waitlisting the saver fare, and then if it clears cancel the standard one? Or will the system then automatically cancel the bookings because the same passenger name will be booked twice on the same flight?

Zurich is one of my favourite redemption locations. SQ availability is not like other airlines which seem to open up a limited number of seats 347.2 days in advance. They may not even have seats this far out for Christmas, three months out they seem to review things and then last year there was availability released in December for Christmas travel. I posted on this late last year.

Today I booked two F savers to Zurich for May/June travel.

My ideas:

Do you have plenty of KF miles? Book the standard fare to lock in your holiday.

Waitlist for the Saver. If it comes through then you might have to buy online/manage the process to ensure you always have a confirmed tix.

Online Redemption Change. I just did a dummy change on one of my existing bookings. When I decreased the value of the redemption ie I went from a J Saver to Economy Saver, the system calculated the KF miles refund and the taxes refund. I assume the next confirmation screen would have deposited them back into my KF account. The T&Cs do state "If the new journey requires fewer KrisFlyer miles, the excess cannot be refunded." If you couldn't get the refunded miles (from Standard to Saver) online, then I'm sure it can be done over the telephone with a co-operative agent.

As with all redemption plans, flexibility is the key. It needs to be weighed off against other holiday commitments and how many other plans have to be put in place. Sometimes just having things locked away makes for a much better holiday.

As part of this research I did a random search for J redemptions at short notice for this weekend. Plenty to ZRH ex BNE. Just to show how availability will become available at short notice.

 

[fewings85]

rather then start a new thread.

did abit of a google search just like a bit of AFF input

looking at business saver redemption. PER-LAX March 28 depart and returning april 6. March 6 return is available but the outbound leg on march 28 is waitlisted. What do people think my chances are of the booking being ticketed? Worth calling the call centre after a few days if still waitlisted?

My Krisflyer status is silver if it helps.

If my chances are low was looking at booking a PE fare in VA as they have a sale on now however that ends tonight! Im thinking VA will have another sale later on those dates? Not really interested in paying a full far for PE.

 

[AnotherWorld]

This is a bit off topic but why is it when I try to book two adults the seats are available but when I book two adults plus a child there is suddenly a waitlist for business saver?

 

[Kimster]

That is probably because the inventory has only assigned/allowed for 2 business saver in J. I have had mixed luck in the past with 3 business saver redemptions. Most of the times - it is 2 business saver and one business standard.

 

[Foreigner]

Zurich is one of my favourite redemption locations. SQ availability is not like other airlines which seem to open up a limited number of seats 347.2 days in advance. They may not even have seats this far out for Christmas, three months out they seem to review things and then last year there was availability released in December for Christmas travel. I posted on this late last year.

Today I booked two F savers to Zurich for May/June travel.

My ideas:

Do you have plenty of KF miles? Book the standard fare to lock in your holiday.

Waitlist for the Saver. If it comes through then you might have to buy online/manage the process to ensure you always have a confirmed tix.

Online Redemption Change. I just did a dummy change on one of my existing bookings. When I decreased the value of the redemption ie I went from a J Saver to Economy Saver, the system calculated the KF miles refund and the taxes refund. I assume the next confirmation screen would have deposited them back into my KF account. The T&Cs do state "If the new journey requires fewer KrisFlyer miles, the excess cannot be refunded." If you couldn't get the refunded miles (from Standard to Saver) online, then I'm sure it can be done over the telephone with a co-operative agent.

As with all redemption plans, flexibility is the key. It needs to be weighed off against other holiday commitments and how many other plans have to be put in place. Sometimes just having things locked away makes for a much better holiday.

As part of this research I did a random search for J redemptions at short notice for this weekend. Plenty to ZRH ex BNE. Just to show how availability will become available at short notice.

I'm guessing A380 routes to be pretty popular. SQ flies to ZRH, LHR, CDG and FRA.




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[thehound]

This is a bit off topic but why is it when I try to book two adults the seats are available but when I book two adults plus a child there is suddenly a waitlist for business saver?

Are you intending to book a seat for a child over 2, or is your child actually an infant <2? If it's an infant then you book the 2 adults at saver rates, then call up the SQ Australia office and get the infant added on to the ticket (will cost 10% of adult J fare). I have done this for an upcoming trip and it was very pain free.

If, however, the child is >2 and needs a seat, and you can get 2 savers but not 3, then you're all out of luck. You could always book 2 at saver levels and 1 at standard level of course.