Originally Posted by ssk244

Newbie to SQ here - I thought you could hold an award ticket for a few days and transfer miles in (and I read on TPG they charge for this). I just called to put an award reservation in business class on hold and the agent told me that 1) it depends on the flight now - so not all flights are eligible for hold 2) luckily the flight I had my eye on WAS eligible, but I was very surprised to hear that I had up to 2 weeks to transfer points and confirm the booking before it got canceled. Also I wasn't charged at all for this.

I guess I just want some clarity on the process from any veterans out there. If I'm understanding this correctly, I basically have two weeks to shop around for a better deal and if I can't find one, I'll transfer in my points from Amex/Chase a few days prior to the deadline and call to book the award ticket. There's no charge for this, and since SQ doesn't do dynamic award pricing (yet), I'm guaranteed that the award price I reserved is 'fixed' (ie, in 2 weeks I try to transfer points and I won't see that it's suddenly shot up an extra 100k or something crazy.)

Is this correct? Am I missing something?