Originally Posted by
llngoc
I did book F advantage before and wait list on a couple of F saver. Once the F saver waitlist is cleared, I cancelled the F advantage and re-booked with F saver. But I have done with flights on different date and not the same day and exact flight. (Hence the post)
Booking a j saver award and f waitlist on the same flight is perfectly acceptable and is frequently recommended by bloggers. The only key is that because you must have enough miles in your account for the award to get on the waitlist they recommend putting yourself on the waitlist before booking the j saver award. That being said, I recall reading a post here where someone mentioned booking a j saver award and then calling SQ to add the waitlist request to the pnr. That person also said that getting on thr waitlist this way will avoid the waitlist request being removed 2 weeks before the flight.