KrisFlyer Award Chart Devaluation from 1 November 2025

The Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program will increase the number of miles you need for most award flights and upgrades from 1 November 2025.

It comes two months after the airline foreshadowed upcoming “changes to the KrisFlyer programme”, and three years since the last KrisFlyer award chart devaluation

KrisFlyer will also introduce new dynamically-priced “Access” redemptions, and new ways to earn Elite Miles on the ground. Here’s what you need to know…

Changes to KrisFlyer award charts

KrisFlyer has already released its updated award charts, for tickets booked on or after 1 November 2025. Here are direct links to some of the new charts:

• Singapore Airlines award chart from 1 November 2025
• Star Alliance award chart from 1 November 2025
• Virgin Australia award chart

For example, here is the current Star Alliance award chart (for travel booked until 31 October 2025):

And this is the new chart for bookings made on or after 1 November 2025:

You can still book by 31 October 2025 to access the current redemption rates! With Singapore Airlines, you can book flights up to 355 days in advance. So, this means you could book travel up to October 2026 at the current prices.

What’s changing?

As you would expect, most of the award prices are increasing. Thankfully, most of the increases aren’t too bad. And there is some good news, with KrisFlyer reducing the miles you need for an Economy Saver redemption from Australia or New Zealand to Asia by around 5%. But premium cabin Saver redemptions to Asia will become 5% more expensive.

Most other Saver awards on Singapore Airlines are increasing by around 5%, and most Advantage redemptions are going up in price by between 10-15%. But there is an exception…

Unfortunately, KrisFlyer is increasing the number of miles you need to fly to the Middle East or Africa by a disproportionately high amount compared to the other price increases. This is currently a great sweet spot in the KrisFlyer award chart – soon, it unfortunately won’t be as lucrative.

Luckily, the great sweet spot that is Star Alliance Business Class redemptions between Europe and Middle East/North Africa remains.

Award prices on some partner airlines, including on Virgin Australia, are also going up by a very modest amount.

There are no changes to the Scoot redemption chart that KrisFlyer released earlier this month.

Some examples of old vs new pricing

Let’s look at a few specific examples of old vs new KrisFlyer award pricing…

Firstly, these are the KrisFlyer miles needed for a one-way Singapore Airlines award from Sydney to Singapore:

Award type	Until 31 October 2025	From 1 November 2025
Economy Saver	30,500	29,000
Economy Advantage	55,000	60,500
Premium Economy Saver	51,000	53,500
Business Saver	68,500	72,000
Business Advantage	90,000	103,500
First/Suites Saver	93,500	98,000
First/Suites Advantage	155,000	178,500

These are the rates for a one-way Singapore Airlines award from Brisbane to Cape Town:

Award type	Until 31 October 2025	From 1 November 2025
Economy Saver	54,500	62,500
Economy Advantage	103,500	114,000
Premium Economy Saver	74,000	92,500
Business Saver	99,000	124,000
Business Advantage	167,000	205,500

This is how many miles you’d need for a one-way Singapore Airlines award from Melbourne to London:

Award type	Until 31 October 2025	From 1 November 2025
Economy Saver	58,500	63,000
Economy Advantage	95,000	109,500
Premium Economy Saver	101,000	109,000
Business Saver	130,500	141,000
Business Advantage	154,000	181,500
First/Suites Saver	183,500	198,000
First/Suites Advantage	282,000	333,000

And this is how many KrisFlyer miles it would cost to fly All Nippon Airways (Star Alliance award) one-way from Perth or Sydney to Tokyo:

Award type	Until 31 October 2025	From 1 November 2025
Economy Saver	48,500	51,000
Business Saver	104,000	114,500

Changes to KrisFlyer upgrade award pricing

Singapore Airlines is also increasing mileage upgrade rates from 1 November 2025.

For example, an upgrade from Economy Standard to Business Class on the Sydney-Singapore route will go from 58,500 to 61,500 KrisFlyer miles if there is Business Saver availability. If upgrading on a flight that only has Business Advantage availability, the cost will go from 85,000 to 98,000 KrisFlyer miles.

Once again, the increases are more noticeable at the Advantage level.

You can still get an upgrade at the current rate if it is confirmed by 31 October 2025.

KrisFlyer introducing dynamic “Access” awards

In addition to the existing Saver and Advantage awards, Singapore Airlines will introduce new “Access” awards on Singapore Airlines flights from 1 November 2025.

KrisFlyer Access awards will be available to book on all Singapore Airlines flights with available seats, even if there is no Saver or Advantage availability. (This is actually more generous than “Classic Plus” availability on Qantas.)

However, like Qantas Classic Plus rewards, the pricing of Access awards will be dynamic. Singapore Airlines has not yet revealed exactly how it will price Access awards, but we expect the cost to be linked to the price of a commercial ticket. It could be, for example, that 1 KrisFlyer mile is worth 1 cent in Singaporean currency.

It’s unlikely that Access awards are going to offer good value, so most frequent flyers probably won’t be too excited about this.

New ways to earn Elite Miles on the ground

The final change KrisFlyer has announced this week is the introduction of new ways to earn Elite Miles and PPS Value on the ground. These count towards Singapore Airlines status.

From 1 September 2025, you can earn a limited amount of Elite Miles and PPS Value with the following “non-flight entities” owned by the Singapore Airlines Group:

• Kris+
• KrisShop
• Pelago

You’ll earn 1 Elite Mile for every SGD1 spent with the above platforms, or 1 PPS Value per SGD3 spent.

However, only up to 20% of the Elite Miles required to earn or renew KrisFlyer status each year can be earned from these partners on the ground.

For most Australians, the easiest way to earn KrisFlyer Gold status is still with the HSBC Star Alliance credit card!

Is KrisFlyer still worth it for Australians?

Overall, these changes to KrisFlyer aren’t too drastic. KrisFlyer is still a good frequent flyer program and there is still good value to be found.

But after successive devaluations – both in terms of the cost of redeeming and earning KrisFlyer miles in Australia – the value is starting to fade a bit. In fact, KrisFlyer ranked lower than Qantas and Velocity Frequent Flyer in our recent AFF Point Valuations, in terms of value for Australians.

This came as a surprise to many. But it reflects the fact that many KrisFlyer redemptions now require quite high amounts of miles. And that’s before the upcoming changes in November. We’ll update our Point Valuations again later in the year, and it will be interesting to see what changes!

Still, Singapore Airlines does not have fuel surcharges. And the main thing KrisFlyer still has going for it is its excellent award availability. You can regularly find multiple Economy or Business Class seats on flights from Australia to Singapore, and onwards to many destinations around the world. Hopefully that will continue once Access awards land!