Plane/Airline Recommendations to Singapore
Feb 15, 2024, 1:43 pm
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Plane/Airline Recommendations to Singapore
Hi All,
Long time lurker and have posted a little before. I am looking for some recommendations on the best route/planes to take. I will be flying in business to Singapore from Sioux Falls, SD in April and back. I will leave on a Monday and return on Sunday. The last trip to Singapore I flew United the whole way FSD-ORD-SFO-SIN and then reverse on the way back. Is there any better routing/plane/airline (I prefer Star Alliance as I have status/would like to retain my status) but I'm open to others.
Thanks!
Long time lurker and have posted a little before. I am looking for some recommendations on the best route/planes to take. I will be flying in business to Singapore from Sioux Falls, SD in April and back. I will leave on a Monday and return on Sunday. The last trip to Singapore I flew United the whole way FSD-ORD-SFO-SIN and then reverse on the way back. Is there any better routing/plane/airline (I prefer Star Alliance as I have status/would like to retain my status) but I'm open to others.
Thanks!
Feb 15, 2024, 2:19 pm
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Singapore Airlines is a member of the Star Alliance network. The have daily non-stop flights between the US and Singapore, SFO 2X, JFK, EWR and LAX, and 3 weekly flights to and from SEA.
Feb 15, 2024, 2:20 pm
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Feb 16, 2024, 8:01 am
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Hi All,
Long time lurker and have posted a little before. I am looking for some recommendations on the best route/planes to take. I will be flying in business to Singapore from Sioux Falls, SD in April and back. I will leave on a Monday and return on Sunday. The last trip to Singapore I flew United the whole way FSD-ORD-SFO-SIN and then reverse on the way back. Is there any better routing/plane/airline (I prefer Star Alliance as I have status/would like to retain my status) but I'm open to others.
Thanks!
Long time lurker and have posted a little before. I am looking for some recommendations on the best route/planes to take. I will be flying in business to Singapore from Sioux Falls, SD in April and back. I will leave on a Monday and return on Sunday. The last trip to Singapore I flew United the whole way FSD-ORD-SFO-SIN and then reverse on the way back. Is there any better routing/plane/airline (I prefer Star Alliance as I have status/would like to retain my status) but I'm open to others.
Thanks!
Feb 16, 2024, 11:31 am
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What status and what airline do you have.
Eg, if you're looking for United, sometimes preferred partner PQP earns more than flying united itself. So routing SIN-Tokyo-CONUSA (ana) and conusa-sioux falls (UA), may provide more pqp than flying entirely on united.
But you have to ticket via ANA not United, and ANA doesn't offer as generous "no change fee" policy like united. Ana and united should be offering same/similar fares for this route due to joint venture. And preferred partner PQP has a cap per leg
SQ is not a preferred partner for united, so probably not worth it due to lower pqp cap
Eg, if you're looking for United, sometimes preferred partner PQP earns more than flying united itself. So routing SIN-Tokyo-CONUSA (ana) and conusa-sioux falls (UA), may provide more pqp than flying entirely on united.
But you have to ticket via ANA not United, and ANA doesn't offer as generous "no change fee" policy like united. Ana and united should be offering same/similar fares for this route due to joint venture. And preferred partner PQP has a cap per leg
SQ is not a preferred partner for united, so probably not worth it due to lower pqp cap
Last edited by paperwastage; Feb 16, 2024 at 11:40 am
Feb 20, 2024, 11:18 am
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Thanks! I'm premier platinum on United. I would love to get to 1K this year but I think I will be a few thousand PQP short even though I'm also flying to Amsterdam next month.
Mostly I was wondering if there are any airport lounges or planes with cool business class seating that I should be trying out. United is okay but wanted to know if there was anything else that I should take into consideration to look into...
Mostly I was wondering if there are any airport lounges or planes with cool business class seating that I should be trying out. United is okay but wanted to know if there was anything else that I should take into consideration to look into...
Feb 20, 2024, 4:07 pm
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Thanks! I'm premier platinum on United. I would love to get to 1K this year but I think I will be a few thousand PQP short even though I'm also flying to Amsterdam next month.
Mostly I was wondering if there are any airport lounges or planes with cool business class seating that I should be trying out. United is okay but wanted to know if there was anything else that I should take into consideration to look into...
Mostly I was wondering if there are any airport lounges or planes with cool business class seating that I should be trying out. United is okay but wanted to know if there was anything else that I should take into consideration to look into...
Ana the room on limited routes from USA-Tokyo. https://www.ana.co.jp/en/us/travel-i...usiness-class/
Airport lounge? Only if you get SQ F lounge at SIN (SIN-CONUSA either direction ) or LH F (first class terminal) departing from FRA. Don't think there are any other * alliance business lounges worth the special trip
OR you want 747 upper deck? Believe LH and OZ (*alliance) still flies them right now
Feb 21, 2024, 8:38 pm
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Rhetorical question - does money matter? You can fly SQ non-stop from SFO, but expect for business it will be close to 1.5x-2x of price of UA.
Feb 21, 2024, 9:13 pm
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Eg sfo-sin RT 8/14-8/21, SQ /UA nonstop and NH(tyo) have same price $4630 (NH has a bit more airport fees due to tyo stopover).
Similar dates for FSD-SIN, haha (6-8k)
Feb 22, 2024, 12:23 pm
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Feb 26, 2024, 8:21 am
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There are many stops through Tokyo, Hong Kong, even London or Helsinki if in Europe. There's also direct Singapore Airlines from New York I believe and San Francisco, or Seattle and Newark in the U.S. These are the most common from my perspective.