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Have just made a few award bookings to travel with Singapore Airlines in December - February. Asides from logging into the SIA website and viewing the bookings 1 by 1, is there a way to monitor these bookings for things like time or aircraft changes?
 
Have just made a few award bookings to travel with Singapore Airlines in December - February. Asides from logging into the SIA website and viewing the bookings 1 by 1, is there a way to monitor these bookings for things like time or aircraft changes?
A paid membership to Tripit Pro is worth its weight in Gold. Most of the time an alert will come through from Tripit before anything from the airline, advising of aircraft or gate changes and delays.
 
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Have just made a few award bookings to travel with Singapore Airlines in December - February. Asides from logging into the SIA website and viewing the bookings 1 by 1, is there a way to monitor these bookings for things like time or aircraft changes?

IIRC I've had emailed flight notifications for SQ?

In any event, you could always just go to googleflights and enter in the route and day. If your flight number still comes up at the same time no need to worry. (potentially much easier to enter into googleflights rather than log in to Kirs flyer etc etc)

If you have booked through SQ for flights on SQ, no need to worry about any ticketing issues. If you have booked through SQ for partner airlines, a slightly elevated concern in case the operating carrier changes or cancels flights.
 
A paid membership to Tripit Pro is worth its weight in Gold. Most of the time an alert will come through from Tripit before anything from the airline, advising of aircraft or gate changes and delays.

Cheers - just playing with the free version now. Is the paid version worth the cost?

I use Check my Trip.

Cheers - will check it out

IIRC I've had emailed flight notifications for SQ?

In any event, you could always just go to googleflights and enter in the route and day. If your flight number still comes up at the same time no need to worry. (potentially much easier to enter into googleflights rather than log in to Kirs flyer etc etc)

If you have booked through SQ for flights on SQ, no need to worry about any ticketing issues. If you have booked through SQ for partner airlines, a slightly elevated concern in case the operating carrier changes or cancels flights.

Google Flights could work, though still a manual process.

I had to book all the award flights separately since you can't book business & first class on the same award, and you can only business is available from Perth to Singapore. So my concern is a flight time change could cause me problems - and also keen to keep an eye on what happens with the any aircraft changes. Especially when the launch their direct flights to the US, there's speculation about the impact on the Singapore to San Fran and JFK to Singapore flights.
 
Google Flights could work, though still a manual process.

I had to book all the award flights separately since you can't book business & first class on the same award, and you can only business is available from Perth to Singapore. So my concern is a flight time change could cause me problems - and also keen to keep an eye on what happens with the any aircraft changes. Especially when the launch their direct flights to the US, there's speculation about the impact on the Singapore to San Fran and JFK to Singapore flights.

Did you book through SQ or Velocity? With SQ you can have mixed class awards, as per their award chart. Dunno if the same is available through velocity.
 
Did you book through SQ or Velocity? With SQ you can have mixed class awards, as per their award chart. Dunno if the same is available through velocity.

Direct with SQ - wouldn't let me do it through the Krisflyer booking site. As soon as i picked from Perth to anywhere i couldn't book F, only J.
 
Direct with SQ - wouldn't let me do it through the Krisflyer booking site. As soon as i picked from Perth to anywhere i couldn't book F, only J.

Via the call centre they will do it. The higher mileage for the entire trip is required. But for your particular combo it doesn't make much difference. PER-SFO F/J booked separately is 150.5K, the F award would be 148K. The only real advantage of the latter would be the advantage of through tickets and possibly a small saving on taxes.

PER-East Coast USA the saving is slightly more, separate tickets 152.5K vs 145K F
 
Have just made a few award bookings to travel with Singapore Airlines in December - February. Asides from logging into the SIA website and viewing the bookings 1 by 1, is there a way to monitor these bookings for things like time or aircraft changes?
I also use CheckMyTrip...I find any change notifications come through what I assume to be almost instantly and often long before I receive any email notification from the airline. Exactly this happened with SQ earlier this year. Schedule change on one sector left me with a 0 minute connection in SIN. Flights were on Good Friday so rammed full and I got on the phone straight away and got rebooked.
 
I also use Check My Trip (which is a product of Amadeus). But it's basic. It will give you the info you're after as far as schedule changes goes, but it's not as sophisticated as TripIt Pro. I'm also getting annoyed with the increase in advertising of late on CheckMyTrip and the push notifications trying to get me to book stuff through it.
 
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Cheers - just playing with the free version now. Is the paid version worth the cost?

Definitely. Aside from the flight updates, I also like that I can add hotel bookings, tours, hire car & restaurant plans etc. Plus I can look at trips in the past as well.
 
A paid membership to Tripit Pro is worth its weight in Gold. Most of the time an alert will come through from Tripit before anything from the airline, advising of aircraft or gate changes and delays.

I have a love/hate relationship with TripIt. If there was an alternative I'd have dumped it long ago.

In my experience, the alerts only come 24 to 48 hours before departure, in which case I'm already well aware of the change. For gate information and that sort of thing, it's not too bad.
 
I'd +1 TripIt Pro, although last few months its missed a few updates and/or flight changes. Upon investigation most likely an airline problem, but disconcerting. Also gave me a false alert last year, saying a flight was cancelled when it in the end it wasn't. But again, some questioning made it seem more likely an airline problem. Just keeping a watch on what it does in the short term.

Check my trip, I've given up on. I appear to have the correct version, but its just doesn't do anything? Am I missing something?
 
TripCase is another FREE option. It has a web portal and phone app.

I use TripIt for keeping a record of all my travel. TripCase is linked to my work bookings but you can send it other bookings. Generally pretty good with notifications: delays, gate assignments, cancellations etc. It also has seat maps but they rarely reflect actual seat allocation that you can see in say ExpertFlyer.
 
The problem with trip case is it does not work with Amadeus based Airlines bookings unless your TA (if any) uses SABRE.
 
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