TG or SQ FFP?
May 4, 2008, 3:39 am
#3
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2008
Location: BKK, NYC
Posts: 41
I looked through the award charts for both airlines
A business class award ticket for BKK-LAX on TG requires 140000miles
but the Star Alliance awards for SQ from BKK-LAX requires only 120000miles
How come it's like this?
A business class award ticket for BKK-LAX on TG requires 140000miles
but the Star Alliance awards for SQ from BKK-LAX requires only 120000miles
How come it's like this?
May 4, 2008, 8:39 am
#5
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: London; Bangkok; Las Vegas
Programs: AA Exec Plat; UA MM Gold; Marriott Lifetime Titanium; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 8,745
They are both terrible. All Asian carriers have horrible frequent flier programs.
If you fly in paid C or F, join LH or BD.
If you fly in Y, join UA.
Seriously.
If you fly in paid C or F, join LH or BD.
If you fly in Y, join UA.
Seriously.
May 4, 2008, 10:32 pm
#6
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 994
That's why I joined BD once TG wouldn't let me re-qualify for gold. Paid C, minimum 200% miles (more the higher tier you are), 300% for F. TG/SQ suck - 125% miles C, 150% miles F. Come on.
May 5, 2008, 12:10 pm
#7
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Terra Australis Cognita
Posts: 5,350
It's never this easy.
* SQ gives tier bonus miles for silver/gold pax. TG doesn't.
* TG's awards require more miles than SQ's.
* On top of that, you get a discount of 15% for any SQ awards booked online.
The OP also doesn't state where they're based -- for me, the fact that I can put my credit card miles into a KF account, but not a ROP account, alone tips the ball into SQ's court.
* SQ gives tier bonus miles for silver/gold pax. TG doesn't.
* TG's awards require more miles than SQ's.
* On top of that, you get a discount of 15% for any SQ awards booked online.
The OP also doesn't state where they're based -- for me, the fact that I can put my credit card miles into a KF account, but not a ROP account, alone tips the ball into SQ's court.
May 7, 2008, 3:00 am
#9
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: London; Bangkok; Las Vegas
Programs: AA Exec Plat; UA MM Gold; Marriott Lifetime Titanium; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 8,745
When I need to call them, which to date has only been for award bookings, I use Skype.
Once you are a Gold, in the subsequent years, once you hit I believe it's 57,000 status miles, your earnings double. For each mile in F, except on SQ, I earn 6.25 redeemable miles. Sweet.
May 7, 2008, 4:04 am
#10
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 994
On the corner diagonally opposite TG's customer service office (still under renovation?) i.e. the side closer to the BTS station Sala Daeng, there is an office building.
In that building is a BMI office. I can remember reading on a post a while back that someone in Diamond Club was helpfully assisted by this office. ^