married segment issues for krisflyer redemptions
do SQ restrict certain routing and redemption due to married segment issues? i have read it happens for SQ metal itinerary, so i guess it applies for star alliance itinerary as well?
i am trying to do a routing like the following AAA-SIN-CCC-USA AAA is another city in SE Asia, so same zone as SIN CCC is transit point unfortunately, i must do SQ metal for SIN-CCC and another star alliance carrier for CCC-USA, due to availability issues. when I search online, i can get SIN-CCC-USA to show up at 105,500 krisflyer miles for business class however I am unable to get AAA-SIN-CCC-USA to show up I can get AAA-SIN to show up separately, so i know this leg (SQ metal) is available. I just cannot string them altogether when I called in, the KF agent claimed that they will not be able to combined them together either, due to married segment logic - not sure is it agent is unable, or unwilling. I am willing to HUCA if this agent was misinformed, or another option I am thinking is to have the SIN-CCC-USA put on hold first then call back again later to add AAA-SIN as the preceding leg has anyone encountered such issue before? how did you resolve? is it possible to ticket such an itinerary in one PNR, so that I only pay 105,500 miles? thank you p/s: one thing i should mention is, AAA-SIN-USA is actually available as a through ticket. In this case, the entire itinerary is SQ metal, and no transit at CCC is needed. the only reason I am not booking it (yet) is bc this itinerary is only available in Economy for now, but WL for Business |
Very common. SQ limit the amount of such redemption. Because it is not worthwhile for them. Basically for such redemption they are giving away the 1st leg FOC or cheaply. So the availability is very limited.
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Originally Posted by Chrischo
(Post 31971707)
You are paying only 105,500 miles, which means you are correct.
Which city are you thinking of CCC? If it is HKG or NRT, you can use SA to America. i dont see any availability via HKG or NRT for my target day currently, so unfortunately not an option |
Originally Posted by sbs2716g
(Post 31971721)
Very common. SQ limit the amount of such redemption. Because it is not worthwhile for them. Basically for such redemption they are giving away the 1st leg FOC or cheaply. So the availability is very limited.
i guess i will just have to decide whether i want to pay cash for the first leg. |
Originally Posted by gnomey
(Post 31971734)
ok, bummer then :(
i guess i will just have to decide whether i want to pay cash for the first leg. |
What is AAA? It could be due to backtrack.
If AAA is north of Singapore, AAA-SIN-TPE may not be valid. e.g. BKK-SIN-TPE is not allowed, however BKK-SIN-LAX is allowed. you can try CGK/DPS-SIN-TPE-USA to see whether it can price the ticket. |
Originally Posted by Unionruler
(Post 31971795)
Try instructing them to look for AAA-SIN standalone first, then add SIN-CCC-final dest, you should get what you want.
Originally Posted by freed0m
(Post 31971815)
What is AAA? It could be due to backtrack.
If AAA is north of Singapore, AAA-SIN-TPE may not be valid. e.g. BKK-SIN-TPE is not allowed, however BKK-SIN-LAX is allowed. you can try CGK/DPS-SIN-TPE-USA to see whether it can price the ticket. so i tried different AAA in an attempt to generate a through *A ticket, via SIN/TPE (ie. AAA-SIN-TPE-USA), and i get the following result "AAA" that works in generating through-ticket online, via SIN/TPE CGK (CGK-SIN-TPE-USA is the only itinerary that shows up) "AAA" that does not work in generating through-ticket online, via SIN/TPE BWN (error msg) PEN (error msg) KUL (error msg) SUB (error msg) "AAA" that works in generating through-ticket online, but via TPE only (so naturally all the below flights are BR metal only, which is a better routing) BKK HAN SGN MNL DPS can you see any rationale as to why the above occur? why does through ticketing via SIN/TPE only work for CGK, but does not work for BWN/PEN/KUL/SUB? while BWN/PEN/KUL is a little "backtracking" since it is north of SIN CGK and SUB are not that far from each other. (i have double checked that SUB-SIN in business have available space, on both its twice-daily flights, if booked separately) i thought silkair metal might be a factor, but i dont think so, after looking at the route/destinations here https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/u.../where-we-fly/ and which AAA cities appear not to work. |
I then decide to investigate the following 4 cities further - BWN, PEN, KUL, SUB,
but this time, I test them for economy *A redemption I get the following results BWN-SIN-USA shows up as economy (all SQ) PEN-SIN-USA shows up as economy (all SQ) KUL-TPE-USA shows up as economy (all BR) SUB-SIN-USA shows up as economy (SQ and UA) |
You need give us more information e.g. date and USA city to get better result.
SUB-SIN-TPE-USA should work. SUB-SIN has fewer flights, you need check the timing whether connection is still available or whether still on the same date. |
Originally Posted by freed0m
(Post 31971994)
You need give us more information e.g. date and USA city to get better result.
SUB-SIN-TPE-USA should work. SUB-SIN has fewer flights, you need check the timing whether connection is still available or whether still on the same date. nope, allowing leeway to that still cant force SUB-SIN-TPE-USA to show up. it is clearly intentional that SUB-SIN-TPE-USA is forbidden (and DPS-SIN-TPE-USA likely has the same fate as well), while CGK-SIN-TPE-USA is allowed (for inexplicable reasons) this has been replicated across several dates you can use Oct 9 as example. USA is any west coast city, but in this test case it is SEA, as availability to SFO/LAX is not as limited for the dates i check such that you have to resort to transiting via TPE Additionally, you have way more *A options heading to SFO/LAX which interfere with results. Ultimately if all things are equal, the choice of which west coast gateway shouldnt matter |
Originally Posted by gnomey
(Post 31973594)
oit is clearly intentional that SUB-SIN-TPE-USA is forbidden
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...b9bdc32b5b.jpg |
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...6328034340.jpg
DPS-SIN-TPE-SEA business class SUB-SIN has limited flights and timing is not good. so probably has more to do with timing than forbidden routes. |
Originally Posted by freed0m
(Post 31975205)
SUB-SIN has limited flights and timing is not good. so probably has more to do with timing than forbidden routes. |
Based on what i read on post #11 , 12, 13, i think this is what is happening
1) While KF allows long overnight transit at SIN when it is exclusively a SQ metal award, for some reason, it doesnt extend the same consistently to a *A award, even when non-MI availability exist. * SUB-SIN-(overnight)-TPE-SEA is not allowed. (longer overnight at SIN bc the earliest SUB-SIN flight cannot connect to TPE-SEA) * DPS-SIN-(overnight)-TPE-SEA is allowed (shorter overnight at SIN) * SUB-SIN-TPE-LAX is allowed (no overnight at SIN, all same-day flights) 2) I am still not sure why BWN/KUL cant work as origins for *A award, even when non-MI availability exist. It is allowed to act as origin when the routing is solely SQ metal, but then not allowed when it is *A award So it is considered backtracking when routing is *A, but not considered backtracking when it is SQ metal only? And then we have the case where SUB-SIN-SYD-LAX is allowed, where there is backtracking with SYD-LAX being clearly UA Strange Anyway, it looks to me that the rules around *A award are way more stringent but then not consistently applied. Thank you for working through this exercise with me :) |
Originally Posted by gnomey
(Post 31975658)
And then we have the case where SUB-SIN-SYD-LAX is allowed, where there is backtracking with SYD-LAX being clearly UA
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