SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[Milboo]

Apologies if this has been covered previously!

If I am flying on SQ288 - so SYD-CBR-SIN - does this mean it is treated as 2 separate flights when it comes to SC and points earning with Velocity?

 

[serfty]

If your ticket shows you as booked on SQ288 SYD-SIN then that is how you will earn.

 

[Milboo]

Thanks! As I thought.

 

[stm1sydney]

[Reposting as this may have been missed at the bottom of the previous page.]

Hi team. I am VA WP and travelling with my wife later this year in SQ Y (on an SQ ticket) and have entered my VA FF number in the SQ booking system. I have selected seats for us (as I paid for the middle level Y fare, W or H fare type, I think)

Is there any chance of securing a shadow seat so that we can guarantee a block of three seats between us, say? Or would I be completely wasting my time ringing up SQ to request this? Does VA WP give us anything like this on SQ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[serfty]

Thanks in advance.

It could be that no one who has seen this knows.

Do SQ allow this for their KrisFlyer elites?

 

[zenyattamondatta]

Or would I be completely wasting my time ringing up SQ to request this?.

That would be my vote.

 

[JohnK]

Is there any chance of securing a shadow seat so that we can guarantee a block of three seats between us, say? Or would I be completely wasting my time ringing up SQ to request this? Does VA WP give us anything like this on SQ?

Thanks in advance.

Your best bet would be to choose an aisle/window seat further back in the cabin and hope middle seat remains vacant.

 

[stm1sydney]

Thanks for your responses.

 

[ninja-tim]

That must be the case. AFAIK SQ has/had a policy that if a fare must be purchased once they turn two, even if this is midpoint through the itinerary. Qantas will base it on the age of the child at the time of outbound travel (ie if turns two after travel commences, they will honour the lower fare).

hmm seems like I may need to call the call center to clarify this.

 

[Pele]

hmm seems like I may need to call the call center to clarify this.

G'day
You need to search for each airline as they are all different. Some charge on ages when departing, others age when trip is complete. I know for infants if you can book as many flights on QF or VA it is very cost effective. QF is taxes only, VA is taxes plus maybe $50 I think. Most other carriers charge 10% some more. I think CX has different policies depending on flight origin/destination. Seem to recall any CX flights touching USA the infant is 20% or more. Also I wouldnt blindly trust what a call centre says. Look up the policy yourself on their website.

Pele.

 

[ninja-tim]

Not sure if it's been discussed here but just checked in at MEL for our flight to LHR in first then suites and noticed the snazzy new check-in counters. Also noticed all boarding passes are pro Ted on generic white cards now and no longer the colour coded boarding passes. I enquired about it and was told it's due to the new counter system they have. Is that a new/permanent change with these new counters in MEL and possibly elsewhere?

 

[whughes3]

Not sure if it's been discussed here but just checked in at MEL for our flight to LHR in first then suites and noticed the snazzy new check-in counters. Also noticed all boarding passes are pro Ted on generic white cards now and no longer the colour coded boarding passes. I enquired about it and was told it's due to the new counter system they have. Is that a new/permanent change with these new counters in MEL and possibly elsewhere?

Not exactly news...
Kiosk checkin at MEL

 

[moffat39]

My mother (who is 77) was to fly on SQ256 (9.10am departure) to Singapore from Brisbane this morning on a J redemption. We are currently in Sri Lanka and meeting her in Singapore on the way back. She wants a few days shopping on her own first!

Sri Lanka is 4 1/2 hours behind and when i woke up this morning I had a message to say that she was at the boarding gate but there was a delay. Next message was that they were being sent back to the lounge. The delay was for around 40 minutes and next message was that she was on board. After about 30 minutes I received next message to say on way back to the gate as there was a problem with the brakes (was a 350).

There was another delay of around 40 minutes waiting for a gate to become available (how is Brisbane Airport going to cope whe the second runway opens!) and when they got to the gate the aerobridge would not connect to the 350, Another delay whilst a gate with the right aerobridge was found.

Eventually got off the palne around 12.20 and around 1.15 mum messaged me to say she was offererd a seat on SQ236 which leaves at 2.30. Now in Singapore.

SQ256 eventually left around 3.30

 

[Dr Bob]

My mother (who is 77) was to fly on SQ256 (9.10am departure) to Singapore from Brisbane this morning on a J redemption. We are currently in Sri Lanka and meeting her in Singapore on the way back. She wants a few days shopping on her own first!

Sri Lanka is 4 1/2 hours behind and when i woke up this morning I had a message to say that she was at the boarding gate but there was a delay. Next message was that they were being sent back to the lounge. The delay was for around 40 minutes and next message was that she was on board. After about 30 minutes I received next message to say on way back to the gate as there was a problem with the brakes (was a 350).

There was another delay of around 40 minutes waiting for a gate to become available (how is Brisbane Airport going to cope whe the second runway opens!) and when they got to the gate the aerobridge would not connect to the 350, Another delay whilst a gate with the right aerobridge was found.

Eventually got off the palne around 12.20 and around 1.15 mum messaged me to say she was offererd a seat on SQ236 which leaves at 2.30. Now in Singapore.

SQ256 eventually left around 3.30

A bummer for the delay but at least she was in J. It would have been so much more disappointing & draining if your mum was in Y with no lounge access. Good they offered her 236 (another 350 so no downgrade in aircraft).
All up around 5.5 hours delay into Sing & unlikely your mum would be rushing off to shop in the evening she arrived.
I feel for the poor buggers that had a connection but at least SQ do look after them well.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

May 9 had 5 hour delay on SQ805 to push back from PEK at 08:55 with doors locked - I felt like I had died and gone to heaven - 5 hours in J drinking Charles Heidsieck served up by the stunning SQ girls - god I love delays!

 

[Denali]

May 9 had 5 hour delay on SQ805 to push back from PEK at 08:55 with doors locked - I felt like I had died and gone to heaven - 5 hours in J drinking Charles Heidsieck served up by the stunning SQ girls - god I love delays!

I remember a 50min delay once and wondering how the heck the people in Y were managing. 5hrs would have been unbearable.

 

[moffat39]

A bummer for the delay but at least she was in J. It would have been so much more disappointing & draining if your mum was in Y with no lounge access. Good they offered her 236 (another 350 so no downgrade in aircraft).
All up around 5.5 hours delay into Sing & unlikely your mum would be rushing off to shop in the evening she arrived.
I feel for the poor buggers that had a connection but at least SQ do look after them well.

Dr Bob I told her the same thing about the shopping! Mum wanted SQ256 as that would have given her a few hours shopping/looking. Mum is staying across from Tangs Plaza and has already messaged me today that she was waiting for 10.30! We arrive on Thursday from Sri Lanka and my sister arrives from Melbourne tomorrow. I am not looking forward to being a bag man (to carry the bags for mum, wife and sister).

Mum told me that SQ staff were selectively approaching passangers in the lounge from SQ256 to see if they wanted to go on SQ236. Dont know if there was any criteria as to which passangers were offered to go on SQ236. Mum was a J redemption.

Mum mentioned that when she got to the gate there were a number of economy passangers from a certain sub continent country demanding they be let on SQ236 and were making quite a scene.

 

[blackcat20]

May 9 had 5 hour delay on SQ805 to push back from PEK at 08:55 with doors locked - I felt like I had died and gone to heaven - 5 hours in J drinking Charles Heidsieck served up by the stunning SQ girls - god I love delays!

Is CH the normal J champers now? We're J to SIN and back in October....

 

[whughes3]

Is CH the normal J champers now? We're J to SIN and back in October....

Yes, has been for some time now.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Is CH the normal J champers now? We're J to SIN and back in October....

Yes and it has been for quite some time - seriously delicious - and in J lounge most times as well.