Well my letter was ignored. I don’t understand what AS’s plan is. Already having an agreement and ability to book with BA, Aer Lingus should at the very less be available for redemptions.

What do you mean? Redeeming Krisflyer miles on UA? Or redeeming UA on SQ? Or just making a general point that SQ is releasing more Premium space at saver levels?

It may be a matter of what appeals to you or doesn’t.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...es-3180824.php

I‘m curious about how many points may be needed for economy.

There have been “mistakes” where SQ has opened up wide spread *A availability in all cabins for short periods of time, but I can assure you that SQ has never had long term widespread availability for partners in R (Suites) or long haul F or J (which is the important part for a US pax since wide open SIN-DPS is pretty useless for 99% of folks without a way to get to SIN). I’ve been redeeming CO/UA miles for SQ regional J for some time now and pay attention to this stuff; you’re going to have to prove your statement with actual blogs, posts, etc. to me because I am pretty sure I haven’t been asleep at the wheel.

For instance:

https://onemileatatime.com/singapore...flights-to-us/

Yeah, SQ regional would be nice (I’ve flown it when it was a good deal on CO/UA miles) but given how AS has had to deal with brokers, and you have to fly 5000+ miles to use it, it isn’t very valuable.

Historically, that’s been a regional route for SQ- AU/NZ is one of the places where they will open up J to partners, much like Asia, because they don’t use their long haul equipment. It looks like they’re running A380s on it at the moment.

Show me where you can get USA-SIN with UA miles. Probably not too many AS MP members living in NZ as opposed to the US. And given the restrictions on combining partners on AS, just having regional routes that don’t touch the USA, and thus random places where you have to book a second award isn’t going to cut it. AS really tends to cater to a US audience...

That is one hell of a region. It's a 5200 mile flight.

It depends on where they send their long haul equipment, generally. The US is about as far from SIN as you can get, given that their two longest flights are... wait for it...to the US. So it always gets longhaul equipped planes- A380s, 77Ws, and the longhaul and ULH A359.

But yeah, when I redeemed HKG-SIN using *A miles, I didn’t have the choice to fly the A380 or 77W. Just A330s and 772s with regional equipment. SQ will sometimes fly it on longer routes to Australia/NZ/Europe (say CPH, where F and J don’t sell great). Just not to the US.

I’m surprised they are allowing partner awards on the A380 in R on AKL-SIN-AKL. TBH I am surprised they are flying an A380 on that route at all. Wouldn’t shock me to see it go A359/787-10; EK withdrew A380s in those markets because it doesn’t sell, CX cut F in those markets long ago, QF cut back for similar reasons.

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My bet is the REGIONAL A359/787-10 (the 359 with just J and Y that is derated and used for shorter flights) will be OK for J redemptions, just like A330s and 772s are/were, but longhaul A359s not so much. But otherwise agree 100%.

The odds that AS is going to get inventory UA and the rest of *A doesn’t get resemble lottery odds.