PPS Club
Feb 23, 2012, 4:40 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: FRA&MIA
Programs: LH HON,
Posts: 10
PPS Club
My travel manager sent me an email today, saying that I'll be eligible to become a PPS Club member after my next trip to SIN on SQ. Here is my question: I usually book F on longhaul-flights and have two roundtrips on SQ (FRA-SIN) coming up in F, is it worth joining the PPS-Club and will that give me any additional benefits? (I am LH HON)
Feb 23, 2012, 5:55 pm
#2
Join Date: Apr 2005
Programs: Hyatt Lifetime Globalist, SQ PPS Solitaire
Posts: 3,641
My travel manager sent me an email today, saying that I'll be eligible to become a PPS Club member after my next trip to SIN on SQ. Here is my question: I usually book F on longhaul-flights and have two roundtrips on SQ (FRA-SIN) coming up in F, is it worth joining the PPS-Club and will that give me any additional benefits? (I am LH HON)
LH left me behind in Milan without even talking to me (I am HON as well) and SQ arranged for an uplift to their flight without any obligation.
Feb 24, 2012, 10:38 am
#5
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Singapore
Programs: QF LTG, SQ EGTP, Bonvoy LTG
Posts: 4,860
However, CANNOT is very much alive and well 
Feb 24, 2012, 4:49 pm
#6
Join Date: Apr 2005
Programs: Hyatt Lifetime Globalist, SQ PPS Solitaire
Posts: 3,641
Feb 26, 2012, 5:46 am
#8
Suspended
Join Date: May 2011
Location: London
Programs: *A G, OW S.
Posts: 996
Believe me, LPPS is the most overblown thing. The treatment is nothing different or special beyond the fact that the waitlist always clears and you get the seat you want. Other than that you get exactly what you pay for on any given flight and no more. SQ are the masters of creating a sense of special and exclusive; take for example the SK lounges in SIN where they don't allow *G card holders in. Are they really any better than lounges other airlines have at their home bases - CX in HKG, TG in BKK or particularly the LH F terminal at FRA? IMO the SKLs are no better and not a patch on the LH F terminal but SQ have loads of hype to make you believe they are.
There used to be good hospitality things and invites until about ten years ago when it all dried up and enquiring what had happened met with the usual SQ wall of silence. The soft product has been eroded or enhanced so much over the years too that it is a shadow of previous times. F is now about as good as C was fifteen years ago. These days, there are competitors who are better and who you can book easily with because their websites work!
There used to be good hospitality things and invites until about ten years ago when it all dried up and enquiring what had happened met with the usual SQ wall of silence. The soft product has been eroded or enhanced so much over the years too that it is a shadow of previous times. F is now about as good as C was fifteen years ago. These days, there are competitors who are better and who you can book easily with because their websites work!
Feb 26, 2012, 6:46 am
#9
Join Date: Apr 2005
Programs: Hyatt Lifetime Globalist, SQ PPS Solitaire
Posts: 3,641
Believe me, LPPS is the most overblown thing. The treatment is nothing different or special beyond the fact that the waitlist always clears and you get the seat you want. Other than that you get exactly what you pay for on any given flight and no more. SQ are the masters of creating a sense of special and exclusive; take for example the SK lounges in SIN where they don't allow *G card holders in. Are they really any better than lounges other airlines have at their home bases - CX in HKG, TG in BKK or particularly the LH F terminal at FRA? IMO the SKLs are no better and not a patch on the LH F terminal but SQ have loads of hype to make you believe they are.
There used to be good hospitality things and invites until about ten years ago when it all dried up and enquiring what had happened met with the usual SQ wall of silence. The soft product has been eroded or enhanced so much over the years too that it is a shadow of previous times. F is now about as good as C was fifteen years ago. These days, there are competitors who are better and who you can book easily with because their websites work!
There used to be good hospitality things and invites until about ten years ago when it all dried up and enquiring what had happened met with the usual SQ wall of silence. The soft product has been eroded or enhanced so much over the years too that it is a shadow of previous times. F is now about as good as C was fifteen years ago. These days, there are competitors who are better and who you can book easily with because their websites work!
Feb 26, 2012, 7:21 am
#10
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Enroute to ? & likely flying in ' A ':)
Programs: TPPS, UA, EK ...; Marriott BONVOY , HH, GP, GC..
Posts: 4,224
I don't think that was my question. I am a QPP for years now and I like my treatment very much. Inquiries get answered promptly and SQ is going out of their way to make things happen. I still wanna get to TPP and the most elegant and fastest way is to become a LPP partner. So the question was: How much?
only TPPS - which you will receive depending on your annual PPS $ value . Info should be somewhere on website or your TA can assist
Feb 26, 2012, 3:52 pm
#11
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: LAX, SIN
Posts: 474
I don't think that was my question. I am a QPP for years now and I like my treatment very much. Inquiries get answered promptly and SQ is going out of their way to make things happen. I still wanna get to TPP and the most elegant and fastest way is to become a LPP partner. So the question was: How much?
Feb 26, 2012, 8:43 pm
#12
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Singapore
Programs: QF LTG, SQ EGTP, Bonvoy LTG
Posts: 4,860
One can maintain QPP and be nowhere near qualifying for TPP. $25K per year will maintain QPP, for TPP you need twice that spend over five years (or more intense spend in less years).
Feb 26, 2012, 9:30 pm
#13
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Little dot in Asia
Programs: AA-EP, TK-*G, HL-DM, HY-GLO, MR-LTP
Posts: 25,935
My travel manager sent me an email today, saying that I'll be eligible to become a PPS Club member after my next trip to SIN on SQ. Here is my question: I usually book F on longhaul-flights and have two roundtrips on SQ (FRA-SIN) coming up in F, is it worth joining the PPS-Club and will that give me any additional benefits? (I am LH HON)
When you check in for your SQ flights, give them your PPS number and M&M card at same time. Your boarding pass will have LH*G and K SQ12345678 on it. This means that you will accrue miles towards your M&M account but SQ will keep track of the money you spend on them.
Feb 26, 2012, 11:44 pm
#14
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: BRU, SIN, PEK
Programs: SQ TPP, LH SEN
Posts: 3,235
Unfortunately, I'm not again posted out of SG, making it difficult for me to retain status next year. Meanwhile, TPP is a treat when I do travel in/out of SG.
Feb 27, 2012, 2:34 am
#15
Moderator, Hilton Honors
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: on a short leash
Programs: some
Posts: 71,423
Really? I lost QPP when I moved to a non-SQ hub for a few years. I think I had a gap of 2 years w/o PPS status, coinciding with when PPS values went into effect. Last year I just barely requalified, and they gave me TPP - which surprised even me. But I assume it's related to be having been QPP since 2001.
Unfortunately, I'm not again posted out of SG, making it difficult for me to retain status next year. Meanwhile, TPP is a treat when I do travel in/out of SG.
Unfortunately, I'm not again posted out of SG, making it difficult for me to retain status next year. Meanwhile, TPP is a treat when I do travel in/out of SG.