Hi all,
Just having a hard time trying to burn some points and whilst I try and contact the airlines etc., thought I'd just 'dump' on here and see if people had any great ideas/feedback!
The background: We hail from CBR and have family in PER we were keen to visit. Since we had 90k or so miles from previous trips in our Singapore Air account, we were pleased with the announcement of their alignment last year, with our points set to expire this year. So, when redemption tables came out, I checked out the rates and targetted getting around 6*18,000 points for my wife and 3 kids to redeem for return trips CBR to PER. I am Velocity Gold and was going to redeem pts for my own ticket. Anyhow, after some spending on gift cards and the like (!) we pretty much achieved the target late Feb and was all set to try and redeem some of our points...
Attempted redemption: So, the short story is that over three separate occasions this week of phone calls with SQ, I am told that for the whole month of August and September there are no redemptions available CBR to PER! So we have over 100K of SQ points all ready to go but it seems we can't use them!? How 'tight' is this alliance if we can't redeem something like this 6+months out? Is there any tools / way of checking if there are seats available for redemption other than ringing and waiting and waiting whilst the SQ people search to no avail? Any other ideas for how we can get to PER with the points??
Thanks!
Just having a hard time trying to burn some points and whilst I try and contact the airlines etc., thought I'd just 'dump' on here and see if people had any great ideas/feedback!
The background: We hail from CBR and have family in PER we were keen to visit. Since we had 90k or so miles from previous trips in our Singapore Air account, we were pleased with the announcement of their alignment last year, with our points set to expire this year. So, when redemption tables came out, I checked out the rates and targetted getting around 6*18,000 points for my wife and 3 kids to redeem for return trips CBR to PER. I am Velocity Gold and was going to redeem pts for my own ticket. Anyhow, after some spending on gift cards and the like (!) we pretty much achieved the target late Feb and was all set to try and redeem some of our points...
Attempted redemption: So, the short story is that over three separate occasions this week of phone calls with SQ, I am told that for the whole month of August and September there are no redemptions available CBR to PER! So we have over 100K of SQ points all ready to go but it seems we can't use them!? How 'tight' is this alliance if we can't redeem something like this 6+months out? Is there any tools / way of checking if there are seats available for redemption other than ringing and waiting and waiting whilst the SQ people search to no avail? Any other ideas for how we can get to PER with the points??
Thanks!