Originally Posted by
lincoln boy
I am planning to use KF miles to get from US to MLE via IST. But the Singapore website tells me IST-MLE is backtracking and prevents me from booking US-IST-MLE as one award ticket. Does anybody know why and how to fix it?
Given the lack of detail, I assume you are looking at IST-SIN-MLE on SQ which IS backtracking.
As others have mentioned, try to book on star alliance carriers such as TK using Krisflyer miles.