Better SQ Award Availability Through UA than KF
Aug 7, 2018, 1:09 am
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Better SQ Award Availability Through UA than KF
Title says it all. Looking at SIN-BKK on 31 August. UA offers SQ972 as saver award for 25k miles. KF only offers Advantage award waitlist for same flight at 40k miles.
Aug 7, 2018, 3:42 am
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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Is this a complaint? Best way is to book what you get, with the miles you have.
Aeroplan also shows the flight as available. Best bet is to call in and talk to an agent about what they an see from their end.
Then, sweet talk the agent to book it while waiving the call in fees!
Aeroplan also shows the flight as available. Best bet is to call in and talk to an agent about what they an see from their end.
Then, sweet talk the agent to book it while waiving the call in fees!
Aug 7, 2018, 8:56 am
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Aug 7, 2018, 9:21 am
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On on the flip side it’s a very very lucky day if you see any business class inventory on SQ to LHR or SFO or other long haul destinations using UA miles .....
Aug 7, 2018, 1:46 pm
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Getting back to the original point, it is IME virtually unheard of for programs to offer better award availability to partners than to their own program members.
Aug 7, 2018, 10:58 pm
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I don't think it's better award availability, just that it's likely earmarked inventory happened to still be available to partners but has been exhausted in the primary programme. There was once I was able to get a biz class tik to TPE via LH M&M but only waitlist on SQ KF. I just count myself lucky to have enough miles in both accounts to take advantage of such scenarios. Have I consistently found it easier to redeem via M&M - certainly not.
Aug 7, 2018, 11:08 pm
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As a PPS Solitaire I can see saver award availability (20K miles) for every SQ SIN-BKK flight on Aug 31 (all 6 flights). Thus, availability does seem to be limited to status on SQ side. Interesting that UA has access to it.
Aug 8, 2018, 2:23 am
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Aug 8, 2018, 11:59 pm
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Avianca LifeMiles is showing 4 seats available for 24,500 (each). That's their standard Business Saver rate and it shows availability on every SQ flight that day. No other class is available
Aug 11, 2018, 2:21 am
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Not sure this applies to your case but UA has shown me ghost award availability plenty of times on SQ. Were you able to complete the booking?
Aug 11, 2018, 9:08 am
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