Originally Posted by
Billyrocky
......Right now....you don't have any reasonable chance of redeeming for an upgrade on major long distance routes out of Singapore. And that my friends is the reality. And that is a fundamental failure of Singapore Airlines. And this is the POINT.
When did you try to book your upgrades?

I have uprgaded many times on SQ and only failed once. Except for one D->F upgrade when I was able to book six month ahead, others were all waitlisted and cleared within 7 days of departure. My routes were SIN-LHR, SIN-FRA, SIN-JFK (via FRA), SIN-LAX.