Originally Posted by
PaulInTheSky
Don't think I imply CX will go out of business. I am just saying if they cannot compete with the fares of similar routes, they may lose customers who are willing to pay similar to fly them but choose not to instead solely because of the rather large price difference. CX had the excuse where 'We are better than most other airlines so we can sell the seats at higher prices.' But when a major premium service carrier goes on fare sales(hasn't happened once, but many other times, e.g. LAX-NRT, SFO-HKG, JFK-FRA, IAH-DME-SIN), then they should be asking themselves instead of just matching CN-Everywhere fares, should there be something else they can do to improve financially.
Totally agree. Ex: India J fares, SQ is a good 20% lower price than CX and has a much better hard/soft product (especially if you factor in KA which is garbage). The difference used to be 10-12%, and has now gone up to 20%.
I have a substantial balance of AA miles accumulated over the years (including status), but I can't ignore savings of USD6-8,000 per year anymore.
I just don't know which *A FFP to credit miles to for SQ Business fares when I switch. I asked a question over the on *A Forum months back, but never got any useful replies.
I believe SQ isn't the greatest program to accumulate miles.