Ua: Hkg-sin-hkg $187
Jan 2, 2015, 3:22 pm
#3
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: West Coast USA
Programs: UA GS/4 MM, AA Exec Plat, Lifetime Hilton D, Hyatt G, Marriott Titanium earned Ambassador
Posts: 7,553
Done this before when there was CPU. Not so bad if you have lounge access. Arrive back to gate early as you will need to answer all the security questions missed at the regular check-in area if you plan to spend the night in the secure side of SIN.
Jan 2, 2015, 7:37 pm
#5
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: WAS
Programs: UA 1K MM | Marriott LTT | National Car EE
Posts: 694
wow, that's quite low. i thought i had a good deal at ~212 just for a short visit there while out in HK (applied a 125 cert too, which made dropped it even more). Not MR worthy, but a good price regardless.
Jan 2, 2015, 7:48 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2006
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Jan 2, 2015, 10:48 pm
#10
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: DTW
Programs: Delta SM, ICH PLAT
Posts: 1,188
Neither flights are good. The departing flight arrives ~midnight SIN time. As you said, the price is about the same as budget airlines... Regular price with UA is ~$100 more.
Jan 3, 2015, 12:10 am
#12
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: NYC, SLC, LAX
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Jan 3, 2015, 12:45 am
#13
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 5
Thanks Pat89339. I agree they are difficult times at best. Nothing like the contrast between UA and SQ service. I was surprised how different the reverse fare was, 400+ sin-hkg-sin. I'm flying dfw-hkg and sin is my final destination so this was a perfect find for me. It's a hundred less than MH and Jetstar. I guess UA is trying to out budget the budget airlines?
Jan 3, 2015, 1:20 am
#14
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SFO, HKG
Programs: UA MM 1K, CX G, AS MVP Gold, Hilton Diamond, IC Plat, Marriott TTN
Posts: 154
The fare is good and has been here for a few weeks which was useful for overnight turns in Dec to get status (cheapest flight to get decent UA cpm yield on *A carriers in econ leaving HKG for overnight turn). All of these fares are K or G so far, so cannot upgrade using GPU at least.