Singapore Airlines and its KrisFlyer frequent flyer program are popular topics at Australian Frequent Flyer. Singapore Airlines is a highly regarded airline known for its excellent service and efficient operations. It also has convenient connections from all major Australian cities to Asia, Europe and the United States via Singapore. Browse below to learn more about flying with Singapore Airlines and unlocking the benefits of KrisFlyer.
KrisFlyer miles due to expire between January and June 2023 will now be extended for a further, final six months.
Singapore Airlines First Class Saver award seats are now available to book using KrisFlyer miles between Melbourne and Singapore.
Singapore Airlines is currently running an excellent sale on Business Class flights from Bangkok, Thailand to destinations in Europe and the United States. There are also some great Singapore Airlines Premium Economy deals available from Bangkok to New York, as well as from Kuala Lumpur to Paris! For example, right now you can book a … Continued
Just as it’s possible to redeem Virgin Australia Velocity points for Singapore Airlines flights (albeit not in First Class at the moment), the same is also true in reverse. If you have Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer miles, you can redeem these for Virgin Australia flights in Economy or Business Class. Singapore Airlines slightly increased the cost … Continued
Hot on the heels of the recent devaluation to its Singapore Airlines and Star Alliance award charts, KrisFlyer will increase the number of miles required to redeem for flights on Virgin Australia and all other partner airlines as well from 1 August 2022. Award flight prices on non-Star Alliance airlines were initially spared from the … Continued
KrisFlyer, the frequent flyer program of Singapore Airlines, is full of hidden gems! And it’s relatively easy to earn KrisFlyer miles in Australia through credit cards or – from 19 July 2022 – by transferring points over from Velocity. As well as redeeming KrisFlyer miles for Singapore Airlines flights, miles can be redeemed to fly … Continued
Singapore Airlines’ KrisFlyer loyalty program will increase the cost of award flights and upgrades across the board from next month. In further bad news, KrisFlyer has also announced a devaluation of its stopover benefit on award bookings. It’s the third significant devaluation to the KrisFlyer program in five years, following previous increases to award pricing … Continued
Qantas may call itself the national carrier, but Singapore Airlines actually has more international flights departing from Australia each day than Qantas at the moment. This has been the case for most of the past two years. By our count, Qantas has 97 international flights departing Australia this week. That’s an average of just under … Continued
Prior to COVID-19, the Singapore Airlines call centre was generally excellent. It didn’t take long to get through to an operator, and the Singapore-based staff were able to competently assist with most requests. Unfortunately, it’s now quite a different story. It appears that Singapore Airlines has closed its Singapore-based call centre during the pandemic and … Continued
If you want to fly from Australia to Europe in Singapore Airlines Business Class, you could expect to pay at least $5,255 round-trip (e.g. for a flight from Adelaide to Frankfurt). But tickets in the other direction, from Europe to Australia, can be significantly cheaper. Singapore Airlines currently has some great deals on round-trip Business Class fares … Continued
Singapore Airlines will resume regular flights from both Darwin and Cairns to Singapore from the end of March 2022. It brings the number of Australian destinations served by Singapore Airlines to seven. Singapore Airlines’ former regional subsidiary Silk Air served the Darwin-Singapore and Cairns-Singapore routes prior to COVID-19. Both routes were suspended early into the … Continued
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer miles normally expire if unredeemed after 3 years, regardless of account activity. But it’s clearly unfair to expire people’s miles during a pandemic when they can’t travel, so Singapore Airlines has been progressively extending the validity of KrisFlyer miles that would have expired since April 2020. Each extension is for six months … Continued