Originally Posted by
giorginho
Even though on my desired dates there are plenty of available seats from SIN to Bangkok and from Bangkok to Frankfurt, the website but also the phone agents will only allow me to book the very first such available connection, which departs from SIN at 7am (which is 100% pointless, because I would be losing an entire day!). The TG408 flight and the TG920 can both be booked separately (same goes for a Singapore flight that leaves 2h15min before TG408) , only exceed the duration of the last combination available online by about 1h (18h total travel time and the "list" stops at 17h) and even though phone agents can see both flights as a combination, they told me it was not available (which is rubbish, because I have already seen the aforementioned combination being available online on days with less connections available with a shorter travel time than the 408/920 Combi, so the said itinerary then "makes it" on the online list). Does anyone have any remarks regarding this issue? I have had this issue before, but back then the flights I wanted to combine had a 12h layover, so I thought ok, maybe I shouldn't get too "greedy", (though the rules allow for as long a layover as 24h!), but if now even 4h layovers get excluded (not as a general rule of course, just for the specific routing) this seriously limits the flexibility of award tickets (which with Aegean is already quite limited as it is).
I tried again (and a bit harder) and finally got a phone agent to book me a somewhat longer connection for the TG920, taking an earlier Singapore flight out of Changi. The TG/TG combination still appeared to have no award availability (even though I also had the agent verify that availability was present for both individual flights). Ended up costing 40€ more for the 2 tickets but I am quite pleased, I spent a few minutes checking out the exact seats I booked while on the inbound flight to Bangkok and it looks quite nice (though it's a huge C cabin). So 55.000 miles + 143€+20€fee per person for the old/regional SQ C and one more 11h flight on the A380 upper deck (the inbound flight wasn't anywhere near as long as I would have liked it to have been). Now I need to put together a plan for my 6h Bangkok layover. I can't have Thai massages for that long, they'll kill me.
2 more redemptions:
Bangkok to Denpasar for 21.000 miles + 68€ per person, 22-year-old 747-400, upper deck, business class (seat probably also 22 years old, but hey wth, fly the 747 - "check").
Denpasar to Singapore for 21.000 miles +14,40€ per person, again, regional C, but not that many options available (the C in the 787s gets blocked for this route, though it is available for redemptions on a number of other routes in this region).
Any suggestions regarding activities/sightseeing for Changi before my outbound in business class? I will probably "only" have 2 hours to spend there, so the "rainforest" might be a tough one
