SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[SOPOOR]

What is your drinking hand? If you drink with your right, then you want the aisle on your left hand side. So if you want a window then the K seat is for you. If centre, then D. Substitute A and F if a left drinker.

both hands!!!!
im right handed, so ive chosen 20K at the moment, apparently 19 and 21 are windowless
just seeing maybe the front 2 rows are better

first world problems

 

[PDog]

These are by far the best seats IMO on a 773-ER. A small private cabin between the galley and first class. Nice and quiet with Zero foot traffic

Wouldn’t row 15 get the full width bed rather than the cubby hole for your feet? Or is that just the centre seats?
I unterstand row 11 / 15 can open up at T-48 hours... was earlier than that for us last week

 

[MEL_Traveller]

and another quick Q
Seat Selection on J for 777-300ER

Wouldn’t row 15 get the full width bed rather than the cubby hole for your feet?

yes! 15A or 15K are the pick of the available seats here. Bulkheads on SQ are the one exception to being too close to the galley or WCs. The full width footwell beats the diagonal-cubby hands down.

 

[SOPOOR]

yes! 15A or 15K are the pick of the available seats here. Bulkheads on SQ are the one exception to being too close to the galley or WCs. The full width footwell beats the diagonal-cubby hands down.

ok thanks, have modified my booking to 15k,

it will be interesting to see what differnece they are, I cant seem to find them on google
edit: found one

 

[PDog]

Yup, that’s it. The difference in comfort is significant. (But I still had a good sleep in row 14 the flight before!)

 

[theblank]

can anyone offer opinion on the J class seats on SQ227/247 from SIN/MEL?

Its the redeyeflights so only want to be sleeping. Its the 777 aircraft, so my understanding the J is significantly less worth it on this plane.

I might just spring for a Y seat and roll the dice on getting a row to myself, its wednesday flight, so might be a good chance the plane has plenty of seats

 

[MEL_Traveller]

can anyone offer opinion on the J class seats on SQ227/247 from SIN/MEL?

Its the redeyeflights so only want to be sleeping. Its the 777 aircraft, so my understanding the J is significantly less worth it on this plane.

I might just spring for a Y seat and roll the dice on getting a row to myself, its wednesday flight, so might be a good chance the plane has plenty of seats

There's no guarantee the flight will have spare seats for you to 'grab a row'. Some might argue F isn't worth it on the overnight flight because you don't get the full 'experience'. In that situation most would sttle for J as you get the flat bed (but no so much of an issue if you miss the 'experience').

If you can sleep or snooze sitting upright, or you have the day off to catch some z's on arrival, economy might suit yuor needs.

 

[theblank]

There's no guarantee the flight will have spare seats for you to 'grab a row'.

yeah just looked at tonights red-eyes, they both look full. I have enough points to spring for a J, but points are harder to come buy now. Might just grab a Y seat and take a few of those magic allergy pills

 

[travelnutjohn]

There's no guarantee the flight will have spare seats for you to 'grab a row'. Some might argue F isn't worth it on the overnight flight because you don't get the full 'experience'. In that situation most would sttle for J as you get the flat bed (but no so much of an issue if you miss the 'experience').

If you can sleep or snooze sitting upright, or you have the day off to catch some z's on arrival, economy might suit yuor needs.

as what mel said,

I seriously doubt youd get a whole row to yourself, thats one of those "lucky" cases

unless you are scrounging for the points, id say, do business class, huge jump from economy to business

and if overnight, definitely stick with J to save the points

 

[travelnutjohn]

a couple of pointers please experts

im looking at a one way flight from Tokyo (either airport) to melb, got Kris points, Want to try a nice airline other than Singapore, ANA looks good, want to do J or F,
if there is no other good airline happy to do Singapore but that would involve a stopover, for a 9 hr flight,

has anyone got any pointers in the right direction please

 

[MEL_Traveller]

a couple of pointers please experts

im looking at a one way flight from Tokyo (either airport) to melb, got Kris points, Want to try a nice airline other than Singapore, ANA looks good, want to do J or F,
if there is no other good airline happy to do Singapore but that would involve a stopover, for a 9 hr flight,

has anyone got any pointers in the right direction please

TG F, but that will only get you to SYD, unless swapping to J from BKK (but their A350 is quite nice). NH would be the same, unless you want to mix and match with NH to SIN and SQ down from there.

 

[travelnutjohn]

TG F, but that will only get you to SYD, unless swapping to J from BKK (but their A350 is quite nice). NH would be the same, unless you want to mix and match with NH to SIN and SQ down from there.

thanks, ideally, im going to be carrying a fair bit of luggage as i will have done gifts/shopping for friends so a trip from sydney to melb is going to cost a fortune

ANA, seems to be all with stop overs 94k point plus $200 taxes/fees
SIN seems to be all with stopvers 91k plus $80 taxes/fees

can I assume there are no direct flights?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

thanks, ideally, im going to be carrying a fair bit of luggage as i will have done gifts/shopping for friends so a trip from sydney to melb is going to cost a fortune

ANA, seems to be all with stop overs 94k point plus $200 taxes/fees
SIN seems to be all with stopvers 91k plus $80 taxes/fees

can I assume there are no direct flights?

No star alliance non-stops from MEL, only ANA from SYD.

Personally I wouldn't spend the extra to fly ANA. While the service is obviously different to SQ, it's not better, prolly same same.

I suppose you could do TG F TYO-BKK, followed by TG/SQ to MEL via SIN. But that's painful. And prolly expensive in terms of points.

 

[travelnutjohn]

No star alliance non-stops from MEL, only ANA from SYD.

Personally I wouldn't spend the extra to fly ANA. While the service is obviously different to SQ, it's not better, prolly same same.

I suppose you could do TG F TYO-BKK, followed by TG/SQ to MEL via SIN. But that's painful. And prolly expensive in terms of points.

I totally agree.
I could do all those stops but that would mean checking in and out luggage, carrying it around, and paying extra taxes and points for it.

Definitely going to do J via singapore.
I dont expect Ana to be better but it would be nice to try (may be next time!)

 

[MEL_Traveller]

your bags would be checked all the way through even on a TG/TG/SQ combo. And with TG F you'll have to golf cart to pick you up from the plane and take you to the Fcl. But the departure times from NRT aren't great, and awful time to arrive/transit BKK.

 

[travelnutjohn]

your bags would be checked all the way through even on a TG/TG/SQ combo. And with TG F you'll have to golf cart to pick you up from the plane and take you to the Fcl. But the departure times from NRT aren't great, and awful time to arrive/transit BKK.

TG F Is another bucket list flight but thats for another thread!
I have EY ANA JAL TG QAN and QATAR on my bucket list F

 

[SOPOOR]

one of the flights ive looked at has Saver AVAIL and Advantage as WAITLIST

that seems really odd to me, or is that quite common?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

one of the flights ive looked at has Saver AVAIL and Advantage as WAITLIST

that seems really odd to me, or is that quite common?

Could be married segments. While your section of the journey might be ok for saver, someone coming from say Zurich or something may be looking to take an advantage seat, but SQ doesn't want to sell it to them. At least not yet.

 

[SOPOOR]

Could be married segments. While your section of the journey might be ok for saver, someone coming from say Zurich or something may be looking to take and advantage seat, but SQ doesn't want to sell it to them. At least not yet.

makes total sense

 

[SOPOOR]

hope this is the right thread, and sorry in advance for these newbie questions especially if I get it wrong, regarding round the world redemptions,

Is the following possible? 360k point s
Melb - Singapore (transit)- Hong Kong
Athens - Turkey - Spain - France - Tokyo - Singapore (transit) - Melb

ive already booked EK from HKG to Athens

im just considering whether RTW is better rather than doing individual sectors one way, and then doing intra europe on LCC

my understanding is that
- less than 35k miles, no back tracking, start and finish same country, all *A metal, first stop free, 100usd after