Stopover in singapore opens up reward seats?

[JennyH]

I am booking flights Melbourne - Copenhagen return for February next year in business. I couldn't see saver award availability for a short transit time, so I thought I would add a stopover in Singapore. Then I saw that I could make that stopover just 2.5 hours. Are there any problems anyone can see with me going down this route? We will have carry-on only.
Thanks
Jenny

 

[anat0l]

I can't see any issue. It's funny how the system doesn't permit the option you found in the first place without needing to "trick" it with a stopover.

Remember that you only get one stopover for the entire return trip, viz. choose to put it in your inbound or outbound, but not both.

 

[JennyH]

Thanks! It is funny - the system actually offers you flights that depart before you arrive!

 

[anat0l]

Thanks! It is funny - the system actually offers you flights that depart before you arrive!

I didn't notice that before. I'd be double checking the flight dates carefully.

 

[JennyH]

Here is a screen shot of what I mean - the flight from Copenhagen arrives at 7:30 am, but the system is offering me flights that depart at 00:25 am and 7:45am on the same day.
Or am I getting things confused?

 

[Mattg]

I suspect that the system might error out later in the booking process if you try to book an itinerary where (a) the onward flight has insufficient connection time after the inbound flight, or (b) the two sectors are not available to book as married sectors.

I haven't specifically tested this with KrisFlyer, but the Qantas multi-city booking engine will let you select individual flights that aren't possible to book as married sectors (e.g. SYD-DXB and then DXB-NBO on EK, where SYD-NBO yields no results) but then errors at the payment page.

Let us know if you're able to book.

 

[JennyH]

I suspect that the system might error out later in the booking process if you try to book an itinerary where (a) the onward flight has insufficient connection time after the inbound flight, or (b) the two sectors are not available to book as married sectors.

I haven't specifically tested this with KrisFlyer, but the Qantas multi-city booking engine will let you select individual flights that aren't possible to book as married sectors (e.g. SYD-DXB and then DXB-NBO on EK, where SYD-NBO yields no results) but then errors at the payment page.

Let us know if you're able to book.

You were correct - it all fell apart when I went to pay. It went through passengers and seat selection, but I got an error message when I tried to get to the payment page.

 

[madrooster]

I haven't specifically tested this with KrisFlyer, but the Qantas multi-city booking engine will let you select individual flights that aren't possible to book as married sectors (e.g. SYD-DXB and then DXB-NBO on EK, where SYD-NBO yields no results) but then errors at the payment page.

Virtually all airline booking engines are not designed to be smart enough to error you when you try to circumvent married segment logic ie. connections within 24 hours, by putting the segments into a multi city search individually.

 

[Mattg]

Virtually all airline booking engines are not designed to be smart enough to error you when you try to circumvent married segment logic ie. connections within 24 hours, by putting the segments into a multi city search individually.

Perhaps, but they don't (generally) let you actually pay for the booking.

 

[madrooster]

Perhaps, but they don't (generally) let you actually pay for the booking.

The only time it will, is when the segments were available as married segments anyway.