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May 27, 2015 | 5:21 pm

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Originally Posted by TPacific

I just booked 2 one-way tickets in SQ J several weeks ago for travel in July using UA miles for SIN MEL. Pretty happy that it was 30k UA miles vs 55k SQ miles before the 15% online booking discount. The most interesting thing was that the flight showed as waitlist while searching under Krisflyer, but the UA agent was able to ticket it. So, my advice is keep calling and you might get lucky.

Thank you for the datapoint. Being that I am trying to travel in early January i am not overly optimistic, but will keep trying...furthermore the stars would need to align for onward availability to the US via NRT/HKG/ICN...this was present a few days ago but i have not checked since.