SQ Award Space - What happend?

[Cruiser Elite]

I think Jeremy might hit a bit of a hurdle here - port of dep cannot be changed - booking will need to be cancelled and new booking mad.

 

[im.daniel]

Looking at AKL-SIN-MNL award on Christmas day - AKL-SIN available, but not SIN-MNL, so I booked AKL-SIN first online. Added the MNL flight as a waitlist by calling them up and got the e-mail notification that a seat has been made available yesterday.

Called up SQ to confirm the flights and paid the difference in tax - no problems at all! Very happy!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Yes daniel very easy to tag additional sector onto flt and hence dest change - but not origin.

 

[Jeremy Vedder]

Okay, not going well so far, I have been on the phone twice and both times, they look up MEL-CDG and say that's waitlisted, I try to explain that I already have the SIN-CDG booked and just need to change the existing booking but the confusion seems to be that they can't see available MEL-CDG on their screen. The lady helping me last night tried to be helpful and added the MEL-SIN to my existing booking but it is waitlisted (even though there is available Saver award space).

No response to the detailed e-mail I sent yet, but when the difference between adding the flight or booking the flight separately is about 50k miles I have to keep trying every avenue.

I'll give the Krisflyer line a third attempt tonight.

 

[Jeremy Vedder]

I think Jeremy might hit a bit of a hurdle here - port of dep cannot be changed - booking will need to be cancelled and new booking mad.

My worry here is that I cancel the Suites tickets I have that I may lose them before I can rebook or they don't reappear as being available.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Jeremy don't cancel - wait and see if the other sector confirms - if it does call KF and hopefully they will be able to do you a new booking linking both sectors - as always no guarantees with this.

Provided you have sufficient pts in your KF account you can also waitlist multiple combos on and around your desired date of travel - good lucjk whichever way you decide to proceed.

 

[kpc]

Good news: a F saver award Lhr-Sin-Syd opened up tonight so booked
Bad news: it is not for me; it is for +1

I know I managed to snare a F saver award ex Lhr in October 2016 above....but it is a worry that there are no J saver award seats ex Lhr in October next year (nearly a year ahead!!) that I could find (apart from waitlisting)....really looks like premium saver awards seats are drying up!

edit...could find an occas. saver J award seat on the 1335 ex Lhr (SQ305) but that's it for October 2016!

 

[bbqwer]

Hi Guys,

Been searching syd nrt return J Class ( 2 adult 1 child ), When I search the result came up as Departure Waitlist, Return Available. So I click 1 waitlist on departure, and 1 Available on return. Then I click Continue, and next page came up as below attachment: the departure do not says anything about WAITLIST. Is this confirmed?

Using iphone app, showing 395,250 points which is correct after discount. When I search using PC showing waitlist and available

 

[lmere12]

Just went through 2 months looking for HKG - SFO and all waitlisted July/Aug

 

[token01]

any flights with single row of F are auto waitlist for Saver FYI

 

[eclectic_boogaloo]

I'm glad it's not just me struggling to find award tickets.

I looked for Suites redemptions between Sydney and Singapore a few months ago and there were heaps, but now they've all but vanished for the next 9 months. I didn't even get waitlist options - my searches just defaulted to full cost seats.

 

[kpc]

I'm glad it's not just me struggling to find award tickets.

I looked for Suites redemptions between Sydney and Singapore a few months ago and there were heaps, but now they've all but vanished for the next 9 months. I didn't even get waitlist options - my searches just defaulted to full cost seats.

i don't think, unfortunately, the drying up of Sq premium awards (at saver level) is unrelated to the sudden influx of large amount of Velocity points transfers to Krisflyer miles.

 

[lmere12]

Just tried to get 1 J seat into and out of CDG, ZRH, LHR from Aug to first week Sept and found only 1 seat, was able to get 2 F Savers here and there but needed 1 J to go with it. Definitely seems to be dried up. Rang to ask if there was a problem as all waitlisted but the response was all aircrafts getting full.

 

[Spizz]

Just tried to get 1 J seat into and out of CDG, ZRH, LHR from Aug to first week Sept and found only 1 seat, was able to get 2 F Savers here and there but needed 1 J to go with it. Definitely seems to be dried up. Rang to ask if there was a problem as all waitlisted but the response was all aircrafts getting full.

Peak travel time for Europe and you need now to really book a year in advance (like Qantas) to secure seats.

 

[Fiches Mouser]

Last minute is fantastic though. Currently in a position to cancel my EY J flights to LHR (which have been booked since early this year) and get on SQ F instead. Won't do it since I don't have enough points to cover both at the same time (also the taxes are out of control). But still – definitely do-able.

Actually, that said – there's even EY J/F available in the next few days right through to LHR booked through VA.

It's all anecdotal though. Definitely a matter of YMMV considering the many combinations of routes/dates/cabins.

 

[Danger UXB]

Last minute is fantastic though. Currently in a position to cancel my EY J flights to LHR (which have been booked since early this year) and get on SQ F instead. Won't do it since I don't have enough points to cover both at the same time (also the taxes are out of control). But still – definitely do-able.

Actually, that said – there's even EY J/F available in the next few days right through to LHR booked through VA.

It's all anecdotal though. Definitely a matter of YMMV considering the many combinations of routes/dates/cabins.

In the same boat as you except in reverse. I have SQ F to LHR booked for Friday night but with a 7 hour stop over ( read pool visit) in SIN. Just looked and EY have a 4 pm departure in F to LHR with the second leg in the apartment and also the chauffeur . I must say exceptionally tempting ( the points are already there in VA) I just have to negotiate the work issue on Friday pm. For me the points increase from SQ saver F to EY F is balanced by the reduction in taxes from AU$ 400ish to AU$ 80 ish. I am lucky I have more points than I can spend at the moment. First world decisions Krug or Bolly Grande Annee!!

Just looked again and I can make my saver a standard on SQ with minimal stop over and second leg in suites.....Hmmmmmm.
At this point I always think back about trying to do this with QFF points 7 days before Christmas ... maybe not!

 

[Fiches Mouser]

In the same boat as you except in reverse. I have SQ F to LHR booked for Friday night but with a 7 hour stop over ( read pool visit) in SIN. Just looked and EY have a 4 pm departure in F to LHR with the second leg in the apartment and also the chauffeur . I must say exceptionally tempting ( the points are already there in VA) I just have to negotiate the work issue on Friday pm. For me the points increase from SQ saver F to EY F is balanced by the reduction in taxes from AU$ 400ish to AU$ 80 ish. I am lucky I have more points than I can spend at the moment. First world decisions Krug or Bolly Grande Annee!!

Just looked again and I can make my saver a standard on SQ with minimal stop over and second leg in suites.....Hmmmmmm.
At this point I always think back about trying to do this with QFF points 7 days before Christmas ... maybe not!

It's tough, to be sure, Danger. I'm going to stick with J and save the points, despite having options.

It's pretty cool really. I mean seriously – the idea that I could just book a trip in F to London on Tuesday without breaking a sweat is incredible.

But as if I could spend the whole year twiddling my thumbs. Way too organised for that!

 

[JohnK]

Looking at booking business class award BKK-SIN-SYD on 05 August. Most combinations are not available, there are 1-2 on waitlist and the ones offering the saver option depart BKK~12:15pm arriving into SIN ~3:40pm connecting onto the 2 SIN-SYD flights departing around midnight.

That's a fairly long connection but not the end of the world. The interesting part is that all BKK-SIN flights that day are offering a saver award. I could call and see why a shorter connection is not offered.

On another note what is it with 05 August? School holidays over? Limited award availability on SQ and Qantas from SE Asia on that day.

 

[awkwardpaws]

On another note what is it with 05 August? School holidays over? Limited award availability on SQ and Qantas from SE Asia on that day.

9 Aug is National Day in Singapore. It is a Tuesday, so people must be taking long weekends and holidays?

 

[JohnK]

9 Aug is National Day in Singapore. It is a Tuesday, so people must be taking long weekends and holidays?

And Hong Kong?