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Old Jun 22, 2014, 10:24 pm
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lingua101
 
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Originally Posted by Mchamp
To look on the bright side of things....they are increasing the redemption miles in Y class by "only" 20% (some shorter routes will remain same milage in Y), but as long as you are at least Gold you will earn 25% more miles flown or 50% more miles flown if Plat status.

I suppose they are trying to lure all of their members redeeming awards to fly Y more often rather than aiming for J or F class making Y redemption less ludicrous.
But redeeming TG rewards on Y for short haul is not really worth at all.

For example. SIN-BKK-TG, which remains at 25,000 miles, but you need to pay close to S$200 (normally around S$198) tax and fuel charge.

The promotion fare on this route is only S$90 (excluding the tax).

Hence your mileage is only worth S$0.0036
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