First Award Booking
Sep 17, 2020, 2:34 pm
#16
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At the moment it is a bad airport or get stuck at during transit. Transit pax are taken to a specific area where they must wait until boarding commences. They can’t use the full facilities of the airport. Not sure if that will still be the case in 5 months time, but wouldn’t bet on it changing by then.
Sep 20, 2020, 10:33 pm
#17
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I did forget to mention, the one exception is that transit pax can book a transit hotel and will receive an escort between the dedicated transit area and the room and vice versa. Such rooms however, aren't cheap at the moment.
Sep 23, 2020, 7:45 pm
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Sounds almost like being escorted by police except in this case without doing anything wrong lol
Last edited by fly747first; Sep 23, 2020 at 8:34 pm
Sep 29, 2020, 11:22 pm
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SQ will just refund you the difference in miles or offer to cancel and redeposit the entire mileage without penalty
Last edited by fly747first; Sep 29, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Oct 4, 2020, 10:13 pm
#23
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Just an update, my F advantage in Dec 2020, has been downgraded to J advantage (after calling in), even if J advantage is not even able to waitlist online for new booking.
Oct 4, 2020, 10:23 pm
#24
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If this happened to me I'd be pissed. I booked a F advantage award at a time when there were J saver awards available. If they are going to downgrade me to J then I want a refund equivalent to the difference between F advantage and J saver.
Oct 5, 2020, 1:14 am
#25
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That is true. I'm not prepared to argue with them about this yet, until I'm really going to fly.
Oct 5, 2020, 3:09 am
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They are not servicing HKT again yet. They are reopening SIN-BKK in December (BKK-SIN flights already operating). I guess they're betting on foreigner entry into Thailand as still being difficult or impossible (depending on point of origin) .
Oct 10, 2020, 7:36 pm
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Oct 10, 2020, 8:38 pm
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Flight is in Dec 2020. SIN - LHR - SIN. Of which, LHR - SIN was the F, that I specially booked in advantage for the new suites! At point of booking, F was available from 1 Dec onwards.
However, it seems now that I will still be required to undergo 14 day quarantine upon my return to SIN (UK has put Singapore without a requirement to quarantine on arrival). Which makes the 3 day work trip (+ few days extra due to availability of SQ flights) to be rather unlikely. Not much point for me to file a complain now, to get a full refund of my miles/ticket later. So unless Singapore government comes up with something to shorten the quarantine period that I'm eligible for, I will not be travelling (and hence no point for me to file a complaint).
However, it seems now that I will still be required to undergo 14 day quarantine upon my return to SIN (UK has put Singapore without a requirement to quarantine on arrival). Which makes the 3 day work trip (+ few days extra due to availability of SQ flights) to be rather unlikely. Not much point for me to file a complain now, to get a full refund of my miles/ticket later. So unless Singapore government comes up with something to shorten the quarantine period that I'm eligible for, I will not be travelling (and hence no point for me to file a complaint).
Oct 11, 2020, 10:19 am
#30
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Flight is in Dec 2020. SIN - LHR - SIN. Of which, LHR - SIN was the F, that I specially booked in advantage for the new suites! At point of booking, F was available from 1 Dec onwards.
However, it seems now that I will still be required to undergo 14 day quarantine upon my return to SIN (UK has put Singapore without a requirement to quarantine on arrival). Which makes the 3 day work trip (+ few days extra due to availability of SQ flights) to be rather unlikely. Not much point for me to file a complain now, to get a full refund of my miles/ticket later. So unless Singapore government comes up with something to shorten the quarantine period that I'm eligible for, I will not be travelling (and hence no point for me to file a complaint).
However, it seems now that I will still be required to undergo 14 day quarantine upon my return to SIN (UK has put Singapore without a requirement to quarantine on arrival). Which makes the 3 day work trip (+ few days extra due to availability of SQ flights) to be rather unlikely. Not much point for me to file a complain now, to get a full refund of my miles/ticket later. So unless Singapore government comes up with something to shorten the quarantine period that I'm eligible for, I will not be travelling (and hence no point for me to file a complaint).
with the current infection rate in U.K., don’t think SG gov will remove the quarantine. They might even add in swab test requirement before boarding.