I am thinking of dumping 120K miles into a Star Alliance airline.

I want 1 SQ first class award ticket.

Anyone know which airline gets the most first class award seats, or is everything equal across the airline members.

Obviously, SQ gets the most...
I would think that UA gets the least, but that might/might not be true.

I am using a Marriott Rewards travel package.

I can dump 120k in US Airlines in the Star Alliance

Or.

85k into the Asian Airlines in the Star Alliance.


Which of the US airlines should I choose?

By dumping I presume you mean transferring from Amex or hotel or other credit card scheme, as opposed to earning by flying? (If the latter then different earn rates of programs will matter).

If so then also need to consider - can be transfers be done at all? what transfer rate inclusive of any bonuses (not all are 1:1)? maximum amount able to be transferred at once? maximum amount able to be transferred over a period? any fees for transfer? cost of awards varies - 120k miles will get you much further on some FFPs and not very far at all (in F) on other FFPs, etc.

Do you mean US Airways (code US) or usa-based airlines (ie UA, US or soon HP)? Also in case you are not aware, DL is a partner of SQ.

I used 120k Delta miles on a business class ticket over the new year on SQ.

The same 120k miles in Star Alliance gets a 1st class award ticket on SQ.

The Marriott Travel package gives you 7 nights and miles at a 1-1 ratio.

I am going to dump 120k miles in a Star Alliance partner. Im just hoping someone might know if SQ favors one airline over another.

From my past experiences with them, they seem to allocate 1 F seat for reward and 1 F seat for RTW when flight goes on sale on a standard long haul 747-400 at least. The other 10 are for their own use, but they visit the flights regularly and release more, if they can, the closer to departure they get. SQ is one carrier that does get the punters paying for their F cabin - they have no need to give the farm away.

Suggest joining one of the carriers that has on-line Star redemption availability on their www site - at least that way you can see if anything's coming up on SQ on the route/dates you want and if so, then you can transfer your points and get on with the redemption.

I don't quite get it. I understand that you want to use Marriott points to get the travel package which allows 7 hotel nights and 120K FFM into one of several different airline programs. I'm not familiar with the options for mileage transfer from Marriott but obviously there are some *A ones to choose from as well as DL. While 120K can get you a F award tix on SQ it completely depends on the route you want to fly. Within Asia 120K will get you many places in SQ F e.g. SIN-NRT-SIN. However US-Asia is trickier and I can only think of US requiring only 120K for their *A F award US-SE Asia or US-N Asia. BMI might be another possibility with the cash option but i don't know how that work for US-based members. Every *A airline has different mileage requirements for Y/C/F *A awards so you would have to check the eligible ones (for transfer from Marriott that is) for the best bang for your mile and see where 120K get you a *A F award US-Asia which would allow you to try booking SQ as carrier.

Therefore you will have to do some digging throufgh the different *A airlines award charts. If US is an option to transfer the miles to then that might be your best bet with the 120K limit. I don't think they will get a lot of seats allocated from SQ but that holds true for most *A airlines, as SQ is quite reluctant to release too many (meaning more than 1 ) F award seats to partners if it doesn't have too. Sometimes LH seems to have 2 SQ F seats on offer for the same flight but that only happened two or three times when I was querying them about award availability for a range of dates. Maybe this holds only true for the FRA-SIN-FRA route which is what I tried.

Hope this helps. Cheers ...