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Old Aug 11, 2016 | 9:21 pm
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SQ319
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SIN and wandering.
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Originally Posted by cssaus
Just waitlisted for a business class saver award flight for 1 passenger from SYD-LHR for late next April.

Although not an exact science, expert flyer reports only 5 seats allocated for the SYD-SIN sector and 3 seats allocated SIN-LHR.

People refer to doing a "chaser" with SIA which I presume means calling up the SIA call centre and try & get the waitlist cleared. Just wondering how far ahead of the departure date I should try this.
Do you have an alternative if your waitlist doesn't clear?

SQ typically waits till 2-3 weeks before actual departure date before they start looking at the waitlist.

Unless you have a compelling reason why you must get on this flight, I wouldn't send a chaser too far out, as they would definitely fill the flight with revenue passengers first as much as possible.
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