{"id":7407,"date":"2020-06-21T18:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2020-06-30T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T20:44:56","slug":"free-stopover-and-cheap-business-class-awards-with-singapores-krisflyer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/06\/21\/free-stopover-and-cheap-business-class-awards-with-singapores-krisflyer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Free stopover and cheap business-class awards with Singapore&#8217;s KrisFlyer programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many of its counterparts in Asia, Singapore Airlines has a very good reputation for its services in the air. I&#8217;ve flown Singapore Airlines twice on J, and was very impressed by how wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singaporeair.com\/en_UK\/us\/flying-withus\/cabins\/business-class\/business-class-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their old A380 business class<\/a> seat was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/singapore-airlines-logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/singapore-airlines-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7490\" width=\"443\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/singapore-airlines-logo.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/singapore-airlines-logo-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/singapore-airlines-logo-768x342.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That was redeemed via Miles &amp; More though. Today we will have a look at Singapore Airlines&#8217; own loyalty program &#8211; KrisFlyer, specifically how to use their miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore Airlines is a Star Alliance partner, so that&#8217;s a bunch of airlines you can spend your miles on already. You can also redeem you KrisFlyer miles on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Juneyao Airlines (*A connecting partner)<\/li><li>Virgin Atlantic<\/li><li>Virgin Australia<\/li><li>Alaska Airlines<\/li><li>Vistara<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the *A flight tickets may be redeemed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singaporeair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online<\/a>, but not all. In other cases you&#8217;ll need to fill out the reservation form or contact membership service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KrisFlyer has one redemption chart for Singapore Airlines \/ Silk Air, one for all *A partners, and one for every other partner. Most, if not all sweet spots are in the *A chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Stopover Policy]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KrisFlyer has a relatively generous stopover policy. For the (cheaper) Saver Award, you are allowed one free stopover (&gt;= 24h) when booking a return, whether it&#8217;s on SQ or *A metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The free stopover doesn&#8217;t apply to such itineraries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Purely domestic<\/li><li>Purely European<\/li><li>Within the country of departure in an international itinerary.<\/li><li>Between the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also pay for additional stopovers, if it is a return award, or one-way award on SQ metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>SQ one-way<\/td><td>SQ return<\/td><td>*A one-way<\/td><td>*A return<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Complimentary<\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u2718<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">1<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u2718<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">1<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Additional (payable)<\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">\u2714<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">\u2714<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u2718<\/span><\/td><td><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">\u2714<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional stopovers cost $100 each. The most common use of this benefit is to have a stopover in Singapore, but remember that Singapore Airlines has a few fifth-freedom routes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Singapore &#8211; Hong Kong &#8211; San Francisco (88,000 in J per way)<\/li><li>Singapore &#8211; Frankfurt &#8211; New York (92,000 in J per way)<\/li><li>Singapore &#8211; Manchester &#8211; Houston (92,000 in J per way)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These prices aren&#8217;t cheap, but adding a stopover converts your itinerary into two trips so it becomes a better deal. However, the actual charge is usually higher than $100, since having a stopover means you&#8217;ll need to pay more taxes and fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/krisflyer-lhr-iah-stopover-example.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/krisflyer-lhr-iah-stopover-example.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6774\" width=\"350\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/krisflyer-lhr-iah-stopover-example.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/krisflyer-lhr-iah-stopover-example-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find fifth-freedom award tickets online, but to add additional stopovers you must call the membership service. Be explicit that you want to book a one-way with a stopover, instead of two trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Europe &#8211; Middle East]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is probably the best-value redemption in the KrisFlyer realm &#8211; a one-way business class costs 29,000 miles only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-dxb-lgw-business-class-redemption.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-dxb-lgw-business-class-redemption.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7484\" width=\"500\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-dxb-lgw-business-class-redemption.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-dxb-lgw-business-class-redemption-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-dxb-lgw-business-class-redemption-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lufthansa group, Turkish Airlines and Egypt Air fly this route. Unfortunately they all tend to impose hefty surcharges, which means a return trip can cost 300~500 euro depending on the airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Europe &#8211; Central &amp; South Africa]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 52,000 miles per way, this route is also worth considering especially for South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-fra-cpt-business-class-redemption.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-fra-cpt-business-class-redemption.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7485\" width=\"500\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-fra-cpt-business-class-redemption.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-fra-cpt-business-class-redemption-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-fra-cpt-business-class-redemption-768x315.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The money-saving option here is Ethiopian Airlines. You need to transfer at Addis Ababa but the surcharge ex-Africa is only around \u00a350. Annoyingly I didn&#8217;t manage to find any availability at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Intra South America]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single intra-South-America award costs 12,500 miles in economy and 23,000 miles in business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that you can&#8217;t search Avianca availability online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Intra North Asia]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single intra-North-Asia award costs 12,500 miles in economy and 26,000 miles in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The definition of North Asia here is quite interesting &#8211; Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Russian Far East, <strong>Guam, Palau and Micronesia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-icn-gum-business-class-redemption.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-icn-gum-business-class-redemption.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7486\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-icn-gum-business-class-redemption.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-icn-gum-business-class-redemption-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/krisflyer-icn-gum-business-class-redemption-768x334.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A business class flight from Seoul to Guam via Tokyo &#8211; over 2,300 miles &#8211; costs 26,000 miles only. You can try out Ethiopian or Asiana, as well as United. Also the surcharge is fairly low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In theory you can even book the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Island_Hopper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Island Hopper<\/a> taking advantage of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/united-island-hopper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/united-island-hopper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/united-island-hopper.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/united-island-hopper-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting from Guam, you can continue your trip to Chuuk (TKK), Pohnpei (PNI) and Kosrae (KSA). That&#8217;s only halfway through the hopper though, but KSA is the last stop within the Federated States of Micronesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/united-nrt-ksa-award-ticket.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/united-nrt-ksa-award-ticket.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7488\" width=\"500\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/united-nrt-ksa-award-ticket.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/united-nrt-ksa-award-ticket-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/united-nrt-ksa-award-ticket-768x167.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So you can travel from China, Japan or South Korea to Micronesia for only 12,500 miles one way. I could find award availability on United&#8217;s website, but not on KrisFlyer. A phone call to their membership service should sort it out though, presumably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of its counterparts in Asia, Singapore Airlines has a very good reputation for its services in the air. I&#8217;ve flown Singapore Airlines twice on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}