Suites savers now available

[cove]

There are operational changes that occur and then sometimes a customer has a change of plans. My brother was due to have his first Suites run to Paris and had to switch to land in London for business so all he could get was a run in J class. That means that my two sons are next for a Suites run to Los Angeles.
Twenty five years is a good time to be romantic Chimpy and it is still a pretty good idea to set a lot of your plans.
We have only done the double once and we prefer the window singles for sleeping so don't panic.

 

[Kangol]

With Suites Saver bookings to the USA, from MEL or SYD they are 137.5k to the East and 140k to the West coasts respectively.
Why is it cheaper to fly further (transpac) from SIN?
If you wanted to fly to places other than SQ's international USA hubs, can you still combine *A partners on the same award?

 

[Danger UXB]

With Suites Saver bookings to the USA, from MEL or SYD they are 137.5k to the East and 140k to the West coasts respectively.
Why is it cheaper to fly further (transpac) from SIN?
If you wanted to fly to places other than SQ's international USA hubs, can you still combine *A partners on the same award?

It used to be that *A redemption in suites was not possible. Not sure if this has changed in recent times

 

[wafliron]

It used to be that *A redemption in suites was not possible. Not sure if this has changed in recent times

I think maybe you misunderstood Kangol's post? He was asking if you can tack domestic legs on other *A airlines in the USA (so, United) onto the "end" of a SQ award (e.g. route MEL-xSIN-xFRA-xJFK on SQ, then xJFK-ORD on United), not whether you can book SQ R via an award booked with another *A airline.

Kangol, to answer your question, yes you can do this. I don't know what exact rules SQ may have in place, but they're not overly restrictive - I have my parents booked MEL-xSIN-xLHR (F/R) on SQ metal later this year, connecting onto LH xLHR-xFRA-BUD (J/J), all on the same KrisFlyer award ticket. So that's an extra two sectors, and technically a backtrack.

 

[Kangol]

Kangol, to answer your question, yes you can do this. I don't know what exact rules SQ may have in place, but they're not overly restrictive - I have my parents booked MEL-xSIN-xLHR (F/R) on SQ metal later this year, connecting onto LH xLHR-xFRA-BUD (J/J), all on the same KrisFlyer award ticket. So that's an extra two sectors, and technically a backtrack.

Thanks, yes that was my question - to add *A partners to the "end" of an award.

If that is the case, in the above example if you wanted to travel to the west coast USA, could you book a final leg to the east coast, then no show that leg in order to get a cheaper rate? Yes I know it's 2.5k, but the principle is what I'm asking...

PS. did your parents do something bad to make you book them on to F and not R on the MEL-SIN leg?

 

[legroom]

I think maybe you misunderstood Kangol's post? He was asking if you can tack domestic legs on other *A airlines in the USA (so, United) onto the "end" of a SQ award (e.g. route MEL-xSIN-xFRA-xJFK on SQ, then xJFK-ORD on United), not whether you can book SQ R via an award booked with another *A airline.

Kangol, to answer your question, yes you can do this. I don't know what exact rules SQ may have in place, but they're not overly restrictive - I have my parents booked MEL-xSIN-xLHR (F/R) on SQ metal later this year, connecting onto LH xLHR-xFRA-BUD (J/J), all on the same KrisFlyer award ticket. So that's an extra two sectors, and technically a backtrack.

Can you ask for *A redemption withOUT any SQ booking, using SQ points ?

Say, LH only ?

Apparently not but would welcome any experience here.

Thanks

 

[Danger UXB]

I think maybe you misunderstood Kangol's post? He was asking if you can tack domestic legs on other *A airlines in the USA (so, United) onto the "end" of a SQ award (e.g. route MEL-xSIN-xFRA-xJFK on SQ, then xJFK-ORD on United), not whether you can book SQ R via an award booked with another *A airline.

Kangol, to answer your question, yes you can do this. I don't know what exact rules SQ may have in place, but they're not overly restrictive - I have my parents booked MEL-xSIN-xLHR (F/R) on SQ metal later this year, connecting onto LH xLHR-xFRA-BUD (J/J), all on the same KrisFlyer award ticket. So that's an extra two sectors, and technically a backtrack.

Opps sorry misunderstood .Did the extra sectors cost more points ie did you pay standard * A rates for them and they added the sectors onto the same PRN ? Or did the call center simply tack them on to a prior booked award ticket ?
Ok that question is not do clear but hopefully you get my drift

 

[Danger UXB]

Can you ask for *A redemption withOUT any SQ booking, using SQ points ?

Say, LH only ?

Apparently not but would welcome any experience here.

Thanks

i have recently done MUC-GVA-FRA on LH as a seperate booking using SQ points. Is that what you mean?

 

[Spizz]

Looks like SQ is pulling an A380 from the LHR sector to place it on the new Mumbai/New Delhi A380 route, and adding daily Tokyo A380 Suite service. Wonder where the pulling the A380's from.

Update- Ah cough. Had a booking for Feb next year from MEL-SIN in Suites and have just logged into the bookiing to find out its been changed to a 777 Looks like from November 2013 onwards no more A380 from MEL, and only 1 lunchtime flight from Sydney. Hope it changes back.

 

[lovestotravel]

Looks like SQ is pulling an A380 from the LHR sector to place it on the new Mumbai A380 route so Suite availability to LHR might be harder to come by.

Ah cough. Had a booking for Feb next year from MEL-SIN in Suites and have just logged into the bookiing to find out its been changed to a 777 Looks like from November 2014 onwards no more A380 from MEL, and only 1 lunchtime flight from Sydney. Hope it changes back.

Yep seems to be the case! I was expecting SQ to pull the A380 from MEL AGAIN

Not happy at all as I have a Feb booking as well in Suites MEL-SIN-LHR-SIN-MEL

At least it's a 777-300ER and not an A330 though I guess but it ain't suites!

:evil:

 

[Spizz]

Agreed. Even if its the updated F product on the 777-300ER, which I hope it is, it ain't no Suites. So do I keep the same late afternoon flight out of MEL on the 777 with hopefully the new F product, or give SQ a call and switch to the lunchtime A380 Suites flight out of SYD which I don't believe is a full service flight ie. caviar etc.

I can't even access my booking via the SQ website, it says just wait for SQ to contact me.

 

[legroom]

i have recently done MUC-GVA-FRA on LH as a seperate booking using SQ points. Is that what you mean?

Yes.

Glad it is possible.

I thought I read somewhere that claimed it has to be done only with a concurrent SQ booking.

Thanks

 

[albatross710]

Agreed. Even if its the updated F product on the 777-300ER, which I hope it is, it ain't no Suites. So do I keep the same late afternoon flight out of MEL on the 777 with hopefully the new F product, or give SQ a call and switch to the lunchtime A380 Suites flight out of SYD which I don't believe is a full service flight ie. caviar etc.

I can't even access my booking via the SQ website, it says just wait for SQ to contact me.

Well it's your booking and your miles and your experience. It's up to you to make it the experience you want. If you were to ring SQ now, before they contact everyone else, then you might have a better chance of getting onto the lunchtime flight.

By everyone else I mean people with higher status and PPS value than you.

First claa on SQ is good, but would be spoiled of you were sitting there knowing you hadn't done everything possible.

 

[Spizz]

albatross710- Waiting to see if the replacement 777s have the new or old F in them before deceiding which way to go. If it's the new F I'll just stick with the 777 flight out of MEL (as I try to avoid SYD airport as much as possible). If not then I'll switch to the A380 out of SYD. The rub is there has been no announcement yet from SQ about the changes, no one fom SQ has contacted me as per my booking stating that would be the case (and I agree about pre-empting that call), but I doubt I will know if it is the new new refurb 777 until much close to the flight.

 

[albatross710]

Can you ask for *A redemption withOUT any SQ booking, using SQ points ?

Say, LH only ?

Thanks

Absolutely that is the idea of *A redemptions. I have done TG from BNE-ZRH. So for *A there is NO requirement for any SQ sectors.

You can also use your KF miles to redeem on partner airlines such as Virgin. Once again, no SQ sectors needed.

Oh and of course, NZ, I've done a few *A redemptions BNE-AKL without SQ sectors.

 

[wafliron]

If that is the case, in the above example if you wanted to travel to the west coast USA, could you book a final leg to the east coast, then no show that leg in order to get a cheaper rate? Yes I know it's 2.5k, but the principle is what I'm asking...

Possibly - I'm not sure exactly what SQ do and don't allow in terms of adding extra domestic sectors onto the end of an international itinerary.

PS. did your parents do something bad to make you book them on to F and not R on the MEL-SIN leg?

Hah! Driven by their desire not to overnight in SIN, IIRC. Definitely to avoid a very long connection, even if it wasn't overnight. I did make sure the 77W F is overnight and 388 R daytime, though.

Opps sorry misunderstood .Did the extra sectors cost more points ie did you pay standard * A rates for them and they added the sectors onto the same PRN ? Or did the call center simply tack them on to a prior booked award ticket ?

All booked at the same time via calling the call centre - I'd assume you could add them onto an existing booking, but would be charged the change fee ($50USD? Same as the cancel fee?) and any points / surcharges difference.

As soon as you add any non-SQ flights onto an itinerary, the points cost is dictated by the *A points table rather than the SQ points table - in the case of my parents flights to Europe, the cost was the same though. You do lose the 15% online discount though, as you can't book non-SQ award flights online - and the call centre won't honour it even though it's not possible.

 

[cove]

I saw the web cash price from SQ was $42k for this weeks bookings so the points I used had real value. I hope this never changes as that sort of retail pricing would be a wealth hazard.

 

[albatross710]

Just had our first sector in SQ Suites. I had heard that they are more addictive that crack cocaine. How true. I'm now seated in The Private Room paying as many bills as I can on my Krisflyer card just to get myself closer to the next fix after this journey.

 

[cove]

Gee Alby that is very warped.

 

[diningdecadence]

In TPR on a 14 hour layover- any suggestions on what to do in the city? This is our 4th/5th visit so most of the tourist sites have been covered off. At this point seriously considering a day room at a hotel as connected from an overnight from India and knackered.

fyi champagne is now VC LGD 2004 as apparently stocks of Dom 04 are low.

much busier here in the AM than the couple of other visits I've made in the PM