Air Canada awards on SQ seem to have increased

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@MEL_Traveller @luxury-lizard Appreciate your advice on this. To give an update to this situation:

• I did reach out to Singapore Airlines but they were quite firm that they could make no changes to the ticket and that the name should be changed prior to travel
• I called Aeroplan and they informed me that they would have to cancel the ticket and then attempt to re-issue it based on availability

I agree with both of your suggestions that we could have looked at turning up to the airport with maiden name passport, especially as check-in staff often have additional abilities to make changes to the ticket, but we didn't think it was worth the risk if it didn't work out.

Based on the above I made the decision to book alternative travel down to Australia prior to cancelling the ticket so we weren't potentially left without a way home. After calling Aeroplan and cancelling the reward tickets I can confirm that, some 40 hours on now, they were never released back to any of the reward pools - Singapore Krisflyer, Velocity or Aeroplan. Travel is next week so there may be different results if you were doing this a lot longer out, but I would tread with caution any attempt to cancel to rebook.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

@MEL_Traveller @luxury-lizard Appreciate your advice on this. To give an update to this situation:

• I did reach out to Singapore Airlines but they were quite firm that they could make no changes to the ticket and that the name should be changed prior to travel
• I called Aeroplan and they informed me that they would have to cancel the ticket and then attempt to re-issue it based on availability

I agree with both of your suggestions that we could have looked at turning up to the airport with maiden name passport, especially as check-in staff often have additional abilities to make changes to the ticket, but we didn't think it was worth the risk if it didn't work out.

Based on the above I made the decision to book alternative travel down to Australia prior to cancelling the ticket so we weren't potentially left without a way home. After calling Aeroplan and cancelling the reward tickets I can confirm that, some 40 hours on now, they were never released back to any of the reward pools - Singapore Krisflyer, Velocity or Aeroplan. Travel is next week so there may be different results if you were doing this a lot longer out, but I would tread with caution any attempt to cancel to rebook.

Unfortunately that was to be expected

And highly unlikely in the current environment for any award seats to go back to award inventory… the airpines will be cleaning up with passengers coming off the ME3.