ThirdCultureKid

Booked AMS>LIS>MXP>SIN and SIN>BCN>LIS>AMS

Through Kiwi.com

my outbound has not ticketed, my inbound has ticketed.

seems like they merged two tickets into one reservation…

Bob90

Booked AMS>LIS>FRA>SIN - SIN>BCN>LIS>AMS for November. Overnight in FRA, other than that all short connections.

Booked on Booking.com and ticketed in 30 mins. EUR 1424,-

Thanks OP!

cruser1

That would make sense. On flights from North / South America the only place you can get a stopover is Lisbon or Porto.


The one-way fare is close enough to half the roundtrip that they probably did. Good luck with Kiwi though!

PLeblond

I personally avoid at all costs and would use only as a last resort. Even then only the least bad ones like Expedia. I would never book kiwi.com and am not familiar with g2g.

If you do, you should be OK as long as there are no schedule changes or flight cancellations but if there are be prepared to fight through the Nine Circles of Hell from Dante's Inferno to get any form of resolution, and most likely not one in your favour.

Friends don't let friends book on OTAs

jsloan

I agree, but they're sometimes a necessary evil.

I'd rather deal with an OTA than fly on Singapore's A359 any day of the week.

Nigel Spencer

can you share the dates or a screenshot of your booking?

gary_nj

The A380 seems to be increasingly difficult to find - many dates have the business classes zero'ed out of the business fare classes on EF.

Edited to add: At least with married segments on "natural" connections - looking at overnights in FRA, there seems to be better availability.

PLeblond

I'll gladly fly a cross Canada trip on a Beech 1900 without a lav for fun (and a heck of a segment run on AC if they still operate them, come to think of it) So to me, SQ J choice of equipment? That's like wondering if I'll take the Rolls, the Benz or the Ferrari today... (and no... my choice when leaving in the morning is either the VW or the other VW)

That being said, I'd take an A350 over an A380 anyday, regardless of the carrier.

Bob90

jsloan

Then you're either 5'7" (170cm) or shorter, or you've never flown SQ's A359 in J (bulkheads excepted, which I'm led to believe are a massive improvement).

They're extremely uncomfortable for sleeping, because they have a small cubbyhole for your legs that is not aligned well with the seat itself -- it's sort of off to the side. It's hard to explain, but a quick Google search for "SQ A350 business class seats" will tell you everything you want to know.

In general, I prefer the A350 to the A380, and the B777 and B787 to either. But the SQ A359 is an "in emergencies only" kind of situation, and this did not represent an emergency.

NJSwamplands

The SQ A350 is wonky in its definition of human anatomy. Upper body on one side, legs on the other. That being said I really enjoy A350s except the SQ J seat.

PLeblond

I'm 6 ft (well.. probably 5' 11" and 1/2 but I round up) or 182cm and somewhere north of 200lbs (90kg). I don't really sleep on planes and no have not tried the SQ A359...yet. But every-time I have flown the A380 on SQ it has this weird harmonic about it and I get off as if I've spent 12+ hours in Orwell's Room 101. Not fun by any standard. Can't explain why. No A350 has produced the same effect on me so far. Of course, I'll take a Boeing over any Airbus, but I'm not here to start another incident.

cruser1

The last time I flew on SQ's A380 was from SIN to ZRH. It was a terrible experience! The turbulence made it unenjoyable. For the first 9 hours of the 13 hour flight the plane rocked and bounced in the air. Often it jolted from side to side. It was horrible! There weren't any storms or anything. The pilot apologized and said it was caused by crosswinds, but we weren't even flying at the same heading the entire time, so that seems a bit odd! My wife was with me and we were in Suites and at least she seemed to enjoy it! She still talks about it.

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All the people booking this fare have taken most of the available seats! Haha! There weren't that many dates that worked to begin with.

eriond

My routing is SIN-FRA-LIS-LHR and AMS-LIS-FRA-SIN, booked through an OTA as a multi-city itinerary with one booking reference. However, they ticketed the outbound and inbound flights separately, resulting in two Amadeus PNRs and two e-ticket numbers. When I checked MMB on both SQ and TP, neither of the PNRs make references to the flights in the other direction. From the perspective of SQ and TP, it appears that they see my flights as two one-way itineraries.

On the outbound, I am considering to not show up for the FRA-LIS-LHR segments and end my journey at FRA instead (no checked bags). Can the OTA unilaterally cancel the AMS-LIS-FRA-SIN segments on the account of me having no-showed on two segments of a "round-trip" itinerary, despite having two e-ticket numbers?

Isochronous

When I find this fare on Google Flights, it doesn't show through the TAP Portugal link but does on eDreams.

Is eDreams safe to book on?