KrisFlyer Star Alliance Round-the-World Award Planning

[PSC]

Got it thanks.

 

[lalaland]

What are the chances of booking ATW First Class these days? Anyone roughly know how many points? I have over 500k.

I have a friend in Seattle, and another in Boston I want to visit.

I'm not sure which way around is easiest? The rest of my trip is open. I have family in Italy, some friends in Germany.

One of my friends said he'd come to America Business, so I'll probably find someone selling points fo him.

I would rather fly First Class, but only if I manage all First Class cabins and can also manage good airlines.

Any recommendations for airlines? I'm also open to Japan, or Thailand again as I've been many times.

I'm a bit lost where to travel, but I have time to travel next year July-August and my points expire at the end of this year so I need to use around 400k.

 

[Coops1]

Starting the build for a RTW journey in March-May 2023. Around a week in each area.

Business Saver Awards across *Alliance look ok.

A couple of questions:
1. Any experience on best airlines and flight routes/destinations? Below is so flexible, apart from Japan and UK part!
2. Can there be 2 stops in Singapore for multi days? Or just one stopover?

So far
Late March - Japan - Cherry Blossoms
Early April - Vancouver - Went in 1989, loved the city! Likely do the train journey on top
Mid April UK - Visit friends outside London and then Ireland
Late April France/Belgium - For Anzac Day, might swing part of this to Turkey, not sure yet
Late April Early May - South Africa - Cape Town and then Johannesburg for a game reserve visit
Singapore - Stop on way home for 3 or 4 days (done it to death in past years!)

 

[ThePointyEnd]

The quoted 360,000 for First RTW with SingAir is interesting. I've paid 550,000 miles for an LHR return on SingAir in September :-((

 

[Kscf]

I am turning 40 next year and I want to do a RTW trip.

My plan is BNE - FRA/LHR leaving in second week of Dec, spend a week in London watching Chelsea, watch Northern Lights in Sweden / Iceland.

Next head to JFK and spend a week or so there and head back to BNE via SIN.

I want to book the first leg immediately once the schedule opens and add other legs later.

Is that an option ?? If its not can I book the legs as soon as the schedule opens and once everything is booked, cancel them individually - hope that they go back to the pool or am I dreaming here.

Worst case scenario we can head back from LHR after doing the Northern Lights tour.

I want to do RTW and also take the world's longest flight.

 

[Kscf]

The quoted 360,000 for First RTW with SingAir is interesting. I've paid 550,000 miles for an LHR return on SingAir in September :-((

Ya but thats advantage award right?? It certainly has more seats than saver

 

[MiLK_MaN]

Does anyone know if you can get business between Aus -> Seoul with RTW?

Looking to do BNE -> ICN -> IST and onto Europe, but United only shows Economy reward flights for Asiana/EVA from Aus.

 

[Mattg]

Does anyone know if you can get business between Aus -> Seoul with RTW?

Looking to do BNE -> ICN -> IST and onto Europe, but United only shows Economy reward flights for Asiana/EVA from Aus.

You can do this if it's available...

Asiana sometimes has availability on the SYD-ICN route, but usually not more than 1 seat in J. If you need 2 seats, that would be even more of a challenge.

 

[MiLK_MaN]

You can do this if it's available...

Asiana sometimes has availability on the SYD-ICN route, but usually not more than 1 seat in J. If you need 2 seats, that would be even more of a challenge.

Better to do BNE -> SIN -> ICN -> IST then? Reluctant to go via Tokyo, but that's an option also.

 

[Coops1]

Two quick, simple, maybe silly questions.

1. Can I travel Vancouver - London, then travel Aer Lingus London - Dublin, or is that considered backtracking?

2. I am presuming I can book a flight into Paris, then overland and depart from Rome….or does the land segment need to be within the same country.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Mattg]

Two quick, simple, maybe silly questions.

1. Can I travel Vancouver - London, then travel Aer Lingus London - Dublin, or is that considered backtracking?

This is not considered backtracking for the purposes of this award, but you can't use Aer Lingus because they are not part of Star Alliance.

2. I am presuming I can book a flight into Paris, then overland and depart from Rome….or does the land segment need to be within the same country.

This is fine.

 

[Coops1]

This is not considered backtracking for the purposes of this award, but you can't use Aer Lingus because they are not part of Star Alliance.

Thanks….damn, will look for an alternative. Dont know how I got to Aer Lingus, must have been after looking at TAP, and not wanting to go via Portugal.

 

[BriarFlyer]

Probably on UA; they're a partner but not *A.

 

[SimonD]

In the planning stages for an RTW trip in J for July/Aug/Sep 2023. Got some time until my ideal dates become available, so hoping that the devaluation this week is the only one affecting Krisflyer until I book.

I'm looking at 2 x adults using mainly SQ for this journey. Due to this, I'll be transiting SIN a number of times.

BNE-xSIN-HKT on SQ A350 and Max
HKT-IST (hopefully TK direct, but possibly SQ HKT-xSIN-IST)
IST-PRG on TK (or LH if I had to)
FRA-JFK on SQ A380
LAX-NRT on SQ B777
NRT-SIN-BNE on SQ

Alternatively, SFO-BNE on the just-announced UA service may be an option.

My questions are:
a) will I have any issue with the number of SIN transits?
b) Will NRT-BNE be possible as it's technically eastwards? Do I need to do NRT-xSIN-ADL instead?
c) Are there any *A aircraft that I should consider trying to get award availability instead on this planned route?

 

[Coops1]

Looking at finalising my RTW *A on 240k KrisFlyer points.

Basic itinerary is as follows Late March - Early May:
SQ BNE - SIN
SQ SIN - KIX - land to Tokyo
AC4 NRT - YVR
AC860 YVR - LHR - land/air to Ireland, France, Brussels - Its too hard to include flights!
SN3181 BRU - FCO Economy is ok
SQ FCO - SIN
SQ SIN - BNE

It looks like it qualifies and all the SQ flights currently have Business Saver available!

But is there a way of checking the Air Canada flights, cant seem to see SAVER etc .
I can see AC860 276k in points and Fare Basis EXECLOW in Business Class - Lowest Award
Looks way to simple for this to be able to be booked under this RTW! ?

Any help appreciated, happy to put the hard yards in to chase down a tool/website you can offer.

PS: Has anybody noticed that there is NO Business Saver fares MEL-SIN or SYD-SIN in April/May/June 2023? or return for that matter

TIA
Coops1

 

[ward_FF]

Hi all how do you find Air Canada availability for Star alliance Award sets now...?

 

[ward_FF]

Looking at finalising my RTW *A on 240k KrisFlyer points.

Basic itinerary is as follows Late March - Early May:
SQ BNE - SIN
SQ SIN - KIX - land to Tokyo
AC4 NRT - YVR
AC860 YVR - LHR - land/air to Ireland, France, Brussels - Its too hard to include flights!
SN3181 BRU - FCO Economy is ok
SQ FCO - SIN
SQ SIN - BNE

It looks like it qualifies and all the SQ flights currently have Business Saver available!

But is there a way of checking the Air Canada flights, cant seem to see SAVER etc .
I can see AC860 276k in points and Fare Basis EXECLOW in Business Class - Lowest Award
Looks way to simple for this to be able to be booked under this RTW! ?

Any help appreciated, happy to put the hard yards in to chase down a tool/website you can offer.

PS: Has anybody noticed that there is NO Business Saver fares MEL-SIN or SYD-SIN in April/May/June 2023? or return for that matter

TIA
Coops1

haha same question

 

[Coops1]

Hi all how do you find Air Canada availability for Star alliance Award sets now...?

Completely given up on my 2023 RTW which crucially included Air Canada. No availability seen by Singapore Airlines at all.

Even other flights they found on ANA / United were in economy NRT-YVR-UK (didn’t try europe).
Booked a return Saver Biz to Europe instead before the points go up.

 

[ward_FF]

Completely given up on my 2023 RTW which crucially included Air Canada. No availability seen by Singapore Airlines at all.

Even other flights were in economy NRT-YVR-UK (didn’t try europe).
Booked a return Saver Biz to Europe instead before the points go up.

yeahhh its frustrating im just trying to get to seattle return and one leg has no availability anyway i cut it....

 

[BriarFlyer]

Hi all how do you find Air Canada availability for Star alliance Award sets now...?

I would check if there are Saver Award seats available using the UA website. If they're available to UA, they should also be available to SQ (although they're not easy to find, IMO.)