SQ Redemption Devaluation

[TribleBoob]

For how many? In F or J?

what F or J? sorry i am a newbie to miles game.
i flying every year. i want to book a ticket to Europe, but to London it cost 136k after discount, while i am 6k short.

 

[swatchie]

I could find 4 J saver on the flight quoted above, but since you could not confirm your dates 355 days out, I guess you're stuck to waitlisting. In fact, even as of now, there are still 2 J savers available. 2 probably got taken up in the past 4 hours.

Yep I'll probably have to stick to waitlisting. Even if I could plan my leave a year in advance, I wouldn't want to fly on a Sunday. Flying on Fri or Sat (9 & 10 Mar 2018, which incidentally do not have any savers at all) would allow me to maximize my time there

 

[dahnoob]

what F or J? sorry i am a newbie to miles game.
i flying every year. i want to book a ticket to Europe, but to London it cost 136k after discount, while i am 6k short.

F = First
J = Business
Number of pax = self explanatory

Nobody can help you if you don't give those details, for the plans for a single traveler flying first is entirely different from a family of 4 flying economy.

If you're 6k short, just buy some SPG Starpoints and transfer to KF at 1:1.

Yep I'll probably have to stick to waitlisting. Even if I could plan my leave a year in advance, I wouldn't want to fly on a Sunday. Flying on Fri or Sat (9 & 10 Mar 2018, which incidentally do not have any savers at all) would allow me to maximize my time there

You're not getting my point. Someone else said SIN-CHC is defaulted to waitlist, and I was trying to prove that it wasn't. If you wanted to fly on 10 Mar 2018, you needed to book yesterday, 21 Mar 2017. The trick is to book exactly T+355 days out, when they just release the dates for booking.

 

[bencheongcm]

F = First
J = Business
Number of pax = self explanatory

Nobody can help you if you don't give those details, for the plans for a single traveler flying first is entirely different from a family of 4 flying economy.

If you're 6k short, just buy some SPG Starpoints and transfer to KF at 1:1.



You're not getting my point. Someone else said SIN-CHC is defaulted to waitlist, and I was trying to prove that it wasn't. If you wanted to fly on 10 Mar 2018, you needed to book yesterday, 21 Mar 2017. The trick is to book exactly T+355 days out, when they just release the dates for booking.

Agreed on this point. If not you probably need to wait till 1 week before flying to get a confirm ticketed flight based on my experience.

 

[OngHuatHuat]

So the new system starts at 12 am later

 

[AMD_FREAK]

F = First
J = Business
Number of pax = self explanatory

Nobody can help you if you don't give those details, for the plans for a single traveler flying first is entirely different from a family of 4 flying economy.

If you're 6k short, just buy some SPG Starpoints and transfer to KF at 1:1.



You're not getting my point. Someone else said SIN-CHC is defaulted to waitlist, and I was trying to prove that it wasn't. If you wanted to fly on 10 Mar 2018, you needed to book yesterday, 21 Mar 2017. The trick is to book exactly T+355 days out, when they just release the dates for booking.

Sorry off topic! Where to buy SPG Starpoints at the lowest price?

 

[ceecookie]

Sorry off topic! Where to buy SPG Starpoints at the lowest price?

https://buy.points.com/marketing/spg/landing_page/#/en-US

 

[TribleBoob]

https://buy.points.com/marketing/spg/landing_page/#/en-US

is it instant?
as need to be done before 12:00 am

 

[TribleBoob]

i just did a rough calculation.
e.g. to sydney one way
it changed from 46,750 miles + $172 to 58,000 miles
so in the new system, it's like i am selling my miles at 172/11250 = 1.5 cents.
it's not that bad isn't it?

 

[elnewbie]

KNN ! It's not even midnight yet and the website already updated to the new redemption levels !

 

[elnewbie]

You looking in reverse. When buying, 1.5 cents is a good deal. When selling, 1.5 cents is an awful deal.

i just did a rough calculation.
e.g. to sydney one way
it changed from 46,750 miles + $172 to 58,000 miles
so in the new system, it's like i am selling my miles at 172/11250 = 1.5 cents.
it's not that bad isn't it?

 

[lcpteck]

is it instant?
as need to be done before 12:00 am

Even if the Starpoints purchase is instant, you still need time to transfer to the KF account which isn't instant.

 

[ykeen]

KNN ! It's not even midnight yet and the website already updated to the new redemption levels !

no leh, i still used the discounted rate from 1150hrs-0000hrs (actually until 0004hrs) as I already added and was checking out to the payment page..

 

[lyndonmaxewell]

Woohoo! Just did 6X suites redeemption earlier for the whole family!

 

[TribleBoob]

You looking in reverse. When buying, 1.5 cents is a good deal. When selling, 1.5 cents is an awful deal.

really? how much should I sell?
i thought the fair price is 2 cents per mile

 

[elnewbie]

For business class, you should be looking at 6-7 cents.

It's like as though your house worth $1M and I'm forcing you to sell to me at 250k, and you don't have a choice.

really? how much should I sell?
i thought the fair price is 2 cents per mile

 

[juxtaposition]

But I notice for Long haul flight, the miles required is more than 15% miles discount but the extra miles cost is about $0.03miles

For short haul flight, the miles required is exactly 15% miles discount but the extra miles cost is higher, about $0.06/miles

Eg: Long haul
SIN-BCL needs 59500miles but now need 76000miles, which is about 28% more miles but the cash payment is difference of $423.80 ($0.03/mile)

Eg: short haul
SIN-MLE needs 31450miles but now need 37000miles, which is exactly 15% more miles but the cash payment is difference of $306 ($0.06/miles)

 

[chopra]

For business class, you should be looking at 6-7 cents.

It's like as though your house worth $1M and I'm forcing you to sell to me at 250k, and you don't have a choice.

Broker sell 2.5
Sia selling 4.0usd
U wan sell 6-7?

 

[swordspirit]

Woohoo! Just did 6X suites redeemption earlier for the whole family!

cuz 99.99% of the people wont throw miles to HK like that. ticket to HK is too cheap.

 

[chopra]

cuz 99.99% of the people wont throw miles to HK like that. ticket to HK is too cheap.

Jus burn it..think so hard for what..esp if one has way too much surplus