No they don't, I recently booked an award flight for myself and partner SYD to MAN in J and didn't have to add our baby as a redemption nominee. I think because the 10% fare has to be cash so it's not considered an award ticket it's a cash fare even though it's on the same booking.
Go buy yourself a lottery ticket @Matt_01 - getting a 9 minute wait time is unheard of for the SQ call centre these days.I took the plunge and called SQ to request Mrs&MissM be waitlisted to fly out of MEL rather than BNE (confirmed J). Based on recent experience after calling, been informed it would take greater than 60 minutes to get through I put the phone to one side and settled in for a long wait and continued working. Much to my surprise the music stopped and a voice started talking around the 9 minute mark and I nearly fell of my chair reaching for the phone. The whole call lasted around 13 minutes they have either improved the service or I was just very lucky
For those playing along at home, I called the SQ Call Centre (13 10 11) last night at around 8pm or so. Whole call done within 25 minutes (with around 10 minutes on hold). Unfortunately the agent wasn't a redemption agent rather she was commercially trained. Expecting a call back "within 24 - 48 hours". Let's see how that goes.@MathNerd maybe I will buy a lottery ticket and be a millionaire by the end of the week but doubt that will happen. I only posted as this booking started as a one way made on line, had to call to add the return sector. We changed plans and had to call again as it was a routing change, fees taxes could not be done on this call and took a couple more calls to sort that out. Third change came into the mix so more calls required again changes in fees and taxes and now needed a few more points and a few more calls. Up until today most of the wait times were 1-2 hours and was expecting the same today. When I heard the agents voice I honestly almost fell off my chair grabbing for the phone as I did not want the agent to hang up on me. Hopefully the only call I will need to make to SQ in the next 8 months is to confirm the waitlist acceptance (if it clears)
The Raddison is nice. Very close to the terminal and there’s a little pub opposite for your last round.
Hilton Garden Inn is attached to Terminal 2 and is a quick 5 mins walk to departures.
If you want cheap (and just fine), Premier Inn at T4 is great too. Easy (free) trip on the train to T2 as well.
Nope cheap not a consideration - quality and proximity for ease of transfer - sorry for not indicating that in OP
Likely there is only one seat being made available in the Saver Award fare bucket.
If the first is true, then booking the one seat would deplete that. The issue is will SQ make another Saver award seat available on the flight?
Search for two, if they come up then you should be able to book: there's quite a bit of sin:Aus availability I can see ATM.
Thanks, that’s what I thought.
I did search for two, however it’s coming up only as Advantage or waitlist. Only really looking to redeem Saver tickets.
Good to know. Will probably doing the same thing soon.
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