SQ *A Devaluation

[foggy]

For example:

• Australia-NZ increases from 17.5K to 28K miles in J

Hi Matt, how do you book this route? I never knew I could with krisflyer miles..

 

[Mattg]

Hi Matt, how do you book this route? I never knew I could with krisflyer miles..

You can book over the phone with KrisFlyer.

You'd have to use either Air New Zealand, or SQ with a connecting NZ flight. Air NZ availability trans-Tasman is pretty limited but you can sometimes find J seats on the SYD-AKL, BNE-AKL and MEL-AKL routes.

SQ has tons of availability from CBR-WLG, and if you get a connecting NZ flight from WLG to somewhere else in New Zealand it will be 17,500 miles one-way. (Booking CBR-WLG only costs 28k miles.)

I recently booked AKL-WLG-CBR for 17.5k miles in J (the AKL-WLG leg is in Y) and around $90 in taxes.

 

[NickM]

HI Matt, very helpful.
Is the quirk applicable if just booking Sing Air flights or does it have to include a partner airline to be able to fly to Europe for say 95000 ?
If the route is just Sing Air then will they charge 105,000 ?
From your previous post a phone call has to be made to book to get a star alliance flight ?

thanks
Nick

 

[Mattg]

HI Matt, very helpful.
Is the quirk applicable if just booking Sing Air flights or does it have to include a partner airline to be able to fly to Europe for say 95000 ?
If the route is just Sing Air then will they charge 105,000 ?
From your previous post a phone call has to be made to book to get a star alliance flight ?

thanks
Nick

Welcome to AFF, Nick.

You've pretty much got it. The lower "Star Alliance" rate applies for bookings that include only Star Alliance partners, or a combination of SQ and partners. If it's just Singapore Airlines, the higher rate will apply.

My tip - if you want to fly SQ to Europe but get the lower rate, just add on a short Star Alliance flight somewhere in the booking. E.g. fly SQ from SYD-SIN-FRA, with a short connecting flight on Lufthansa from Frankfurt to wherever tacked onto the end.

You currently have to call KrisFlyer for all Star Alliance bookings - the website will only show Singapore & Silkair flights. This is not difficult though - I usually get through within a few minutes and the call centre staff are lovely.

 

[daft009]

so anyone tried the new search engine as yet?

not sure if I'm doing it wrong but it still doesn't allow to search for a destination that SQ doesn't fly to.
If you pick somewhere SQ does fly to and get the results, then you can further search for "other *A" and "other partner" airlines

 

[LadyC]

Reading the Flyertalk thread, i got the impression that there are a number of IT issues still.

 

[Pele]

Reading the Flyertalk thread, i got the impression that there are a number of IT issues still.

Gday

Yeah i had a play around with it today and it is rubbish. Almost Avianca Lifemiles bad. In its current state it will be borderline useless. Even for LH which it supposedly works for i cannot get it to give a 3 sector flight even though i am certain there are available connections.

Pele.

 

[laffer]

Gday

Yeah i had a play around with it today and it is rubbish. Almost Avianca Lifemiles bad. In its current state it will be borderline useless. Even for LH which it supposedly works for i cannot get it to give a 3 sector flight even though i am certain there are available connections.

Pele.

I have had awful issues with it.

The app wont let me search at all for them.

 

[daft009]

the SQ *A redemption charts only show, Y, J & F.
Is it possible to use them for PE if the airline supports it? (looking at Air Canada)
Points required will be somewhere in between Y & J? or a better way to work it out

 

[tharaka]

New *A search on SQ website is utter rubbish! Not showing availability whilst other award search engines show plenty of availability.

 

[daft009]

i'm finding the *A search has improved slightly over the last ~10 days slowly.

Though it seems to NOT show if the 1 way journey includes 2x changes.
I can see availability in Syd to Singapore, and then Singapore to Toronto (via a few different options).
However the same dates from Syd to Toronto results in nothing found.