Booking Singapore Airlines NZ to Europe with Velocity

[shadrach]

Hi all,

Is it possible to book a Singapore Airlines business class award flight from New Zealand to Europe using Velocity Points? I've been searching but can't seem to find the relevant info.

I know SIA do fly from NZ. eg CHC-SIN-FCO but doesn't seem possible via the Velocity website, unless I'm missing something.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[knagelli]

The SIA reward seats availability with velocity points is limited and unless your travel date is 10-12 months out I don' think you will find any. The best thing for you to do is to check the availability on Singapore Airlines website as points redemption and then try to call up the velocity customer care if they are able to help you secure the rewards ticket.

 

[Brizz]

Even 10-12 months out there is nothing - they are booking out exceptionally quickly.

I have been keeping an eye out for a while, and the main issue is the Oz to Singapore flight - if you can get yourself to Singapore then the options open up a lot.

Flights can also be booked via Krisflyer (via points transfer) but are more expensive (approx 205k points vs 130k).

Flights are available earlier vis Krisflyer also - but they are also gone within days - sometimes hours.

As Velocity rewards are available waaaay after the Krisflyer awards I suspect that by the time Velocity has access to them they are gone.

 

[shadrach]

Thank you both. Just doing my research atm. I'm thinking of trying to get flights for Dec/Jan next year. I know they won's show up nearer to the end of this year. I was hoping there might be a better chance of availability flying out of NZ? Don't mind if it's Christchurch or Auckland.

The thing is that on the website when I put in CHC or AKL in the "Fly From" box it only gives me SIN or North American destinations for the "Fly To" box. So it won't even let me put the routes in to see availability. Hope that all makes sense.

If this is not possible, I'll have to do the more expensive option of transferring to Krisflyer and booking directly with SIA.

 

[Brizz]

I am seeing the same thing - you may need to do this as 2 separate bookings?

There is a multi-city booking engine but I have never seen this work with reward bookings.

 

[woodyren]

Unless things have changed if you can find two separate legs available but not the full journey you can just call them up with the details and they can merge them and make the booking over the phone.

I did this a number of times pre covid for flights SYD-SIN-PEK. They showed no availability SYD-PEK but each leg was available (at times multiple flight options for a leg) and they just made the booking and waived the phone booking fee. The points reflected the full journey points not the individual leg points.

 

[lorkers]

I wish you could - I've got the same problem.
There is a tiny bit of availability - well, really only a couple of days in six months - when you can go Australia - Singapore - LHR.
It only shows each single leg on the website as available, never the whole route. I can book each one individually, (65k plus 92k = 157k) but not as one go (only 139k)
I've tried 3 agents now, and each one can book each sector, but can't get the whole route to book. I spoon feed them the flight details, but the last agent said as soon as they put in the details of the first flight, availability of the second vanishes. Really odd.

 

[Brizz]

Well on the plus side it's only another 18k in points to book both legs.

There is availability on Singapore via points - but transferring your points to Krisflyer to book the continuous flight is significantly more expensive.

Via KrisFlyer is it 130500 points which at the conversion rate of 1.55 per point rate is approx. 205k Velocity points...

Single ticket of course with all those benefits....