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Quickstatus said:
However, if nicely ensconced in R or J, would 8hrs be ridiculous? (Edited)
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I would say definitely yes. Flying can be pretty boring so imagine how boring it is if the view never changes. The meals relieve boredom s bit but you can’t eat solidly for eight hours. The seats even in F are less comfortable than my chairs or my bed at home, especially in the fully upright position.
 
Mr H said:
I would say definitely yes. Flying can be pretty boring so imagine how boring it is if the view never changes. The meals relieve boredom s bit but you can’t eat solidly for eight hours. The seats even in F are less comfortable than my chairs or my bed at home, especially in the fully upright position.
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Can’t remember ever getting bored on long haul flights when sitting up front as long as there is free flowing supply of good champagne and working WiFi (or at least decent IFE).

Where I dread delays the most is on medium haul intra-euro flights where J seats are same as Y with no WiFi or IFE.
 
Would be a great way of getting free drinks, whats left of food - don't know how lack of power will affect food catering) movies, then deplane. Then free accom then rinse and repeat hopefully aircraft takes off.

I wonder what aircraft the SQ833 pax were sent to?
 
Anyone tried to get an advantage redemption stopover where you arrive and depart at same city, but different airports? Ie stopover in Tokyo, in to HND but out of NRT or vice versa. Website doesn’t allow, but wondering about call centre….
 
I had a recent redemption booking from Melbourne to Singapore, then a paid business booking from Singapore to Bangkok. The paid was via AMEX Travel, and had my Velocity number attached to it. When I checked in at Melbourne, they were able to print off my boarding pass for both flights. I assume my passport number had linked the bookings. Unfortunately my Velocity number was no longer linked to the paid booking, and so I'm waiting for the 6 weeks to elapse to enable me to do a retro claim. (The system didn't replace it with my KrisFlyer number, as the flight didn't credit to there.)
 
Stone said:
assume my passport number had linked the bookings.
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Its more than that...

Its something called the PNR : "passenger name record"
Thats just a name given to the record created for each journey booked by or on behalf of a passenger
The data elements in a PNR is determined by the booking system used and by the requirements of the airline. Some of the data elements are:

Title
Given name
Last name
Other names
Address
contact telephone
API data such as passport details
Frequent flyer info
PNR locator code
Travel status
Date info - booking date, PNR creating date, modification date, ticket issue date
Ticket type
Travel class
Other passengers on same PNR
Form of payment
Checkin status,
Seat info
Other remarks

Im not sure why your frequent flyer number did not carry over.
Booking systems really require a degree in the dark arts but a travel agent might have some insight

Lesson - always check details on the boarding pass including FF number.....
 
Ok brains trust... question for how you all approach this, please. I'm looking to snag award seats for next year in R on A380 SYD-SIN-LHR, preferably SQ232 on day 1, overnight in SIN and then catch SQ308 on day 2 - I'm counting down the days to release as we speak. How do you usually book this? Do you wait until day 2 flights are released and then hope that the SYD-SIN (day 1) sector is still available? Or do I book SYD-SIN when day 1 is released, and then ring up and change it to SYD-SIN-LHR when day 2 is released? I have enough points for the journey, but not enough if it is a cancel/wait-for-redeposit/book-again approach if I have to add SIN-LHR onto SYD-SIN. (hope that all makes sense).
 
I did this exact routing in R in May this year. I think the whole itinerary was available immediately but I completed the booking on May 28 '22 for travel on May 17 '23 SQ222 SYD-SIN and May 18 SQ308 SIN-LHR all as one Saver Award booking for 2 Pax. I'll leave it to you to calculate the days.
 
hey folks, one of my friends asked me, "when redeeming miles, obviously the day of release is the best, is there any other route or last minute time frame that availability opens up?"

i didnt know what to reply..... putting it out there for the experts
 
kevrosmith said:
Ok brains trust... question for how you all approach this, please. I'm looking to snag award seats for next year in R on A380 SYD-SIN-LHR, preferably SQ232 on day 1, overnight in SIN and then catch SQ308 on day 2 - I'm counting down the days to release as we speak. How do you usually book this? Do you wait until day 2 flights are released and then hope that the SYD-SIN (day 1) sector is still available? Or do I book SYD-SIN when day 1 is released, and then ring up and change it to SYD-SIN-LHR when day 2 is released? I have enough points for the journey, but not enough if it is a cancel/wait-for-redeposit/book-again approach if I have to add SIN-LHR onto SYD-SIN. (hope that all makes sense).
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Just to be aware, I have recently only seen release of Advantage awards on this route in R.
 
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kevrosmith said:
Ok brains trust... question for how you all approach this, please. I'm looking to snag award seats for next year in R on A380 SYD-SIN-LHR, preferably SQ232 on day 1, overnight in SIN and then catch SQ308 on day 2 - I'm counting down the days to release as we speak. How do you usually book this? Do you wait until day 2 flights are released and then hope that the SYD-SIN (day 1) sector is still available? Or do I book SYD-SIN when day 1 is released, and then ring up and change it to SYD-SIN-LHR when day 2 is released? I have enough points for the journey, but not enough if it is a cancel/wait-for-redeposit/book-again approach if I have to add SIN-LHR onto SYD-SIN. (hope that all makes sense).
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I would book each sector as you go. There’s only 6 seats on each flight after all.

I had no trouble calling and adding a sector to an R class booking. They recalculate but don’t require a redeposit, just the extra and the change fee payment.
 
Looks like SQ started releasing award flights SYD-SIN around Xmas time and my saver waitlist just cleared traveling SYD-SIN-KTM. My current booking is adventage ADL-SIN-KTM for 250K (2pax). By changing to SYD, it will be only 185K (Save 65K). Plus save on hotel and flight to ADL. The possible issue is the connection time is 1 hours and 20 minutes and if we miss KTM flight, it will be another one 24 hours later.

I did an hour connection at Changi multiple times with no issue at all but last time P2 flight delayed from BKK causing a misconnection and was quite a pain to stay in the lounge overnight so it will take asome effort to convince. If it were you, would you change this to SYD one?
 

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