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When you think of Singapore Airlines, the first thing that might come to mind is the extravagant Suites Class featured on Singapore's Airbus 380. While Singapore's Suites are indeed fabulous (along with the standard first-class product and its business-class product on most aircraft), Singapore offers an equally attractive award chart in the KrisFlyer program.
Today, we'll review five of Singapore Airlines' top sweet spots within the KrisFlyer rewards program.
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Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Award Chart
Singapore Airlines makes it easy to figure out how many KrisFlyer miles you'll need for a redemption, thanks to its published award charts. There are separate charts for Singapore Airlines flights, Star Alliance partners, and other partners.
Each chart lists zones, showing exactly how many miles you can expect to redeem, based on which zone you travel from and to.
Let's take a look at the KrisFlyer award charts for Singapore Airlines flights. First up is the award chart for one-way advantage awards.
And next, you can see the award chart for one-way saver awards, which require fewer miles for one-way flight redemptions:
Additionally, KrisFlyer has a separate award chart for flights operated solely by Star Alliance member airlines or together with flights operated by Singapore Airlines. This award chart is priced round-trip:
Lastly, non-alliance partners (like Alaska Airlines and Virgin Australia) each have charts showing zone pricing. If you're still unsure how many miles you'll need for a Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer award redemption, you can also use this calculator available on its website.
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Sweet Spots
Now that you have some background on KrisFlyer award redemptions and how much you'll need for a trip, let's look at five sweet spots available within this program.
United Airlines and Air Canada are both Star Alliance partners with Singapore Airlines. Interestingly enough, if you want to book a premium cabin award for travel within North America with either of these partner airlines, the redemption rates are better if you do so with Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer miles, even when booking round trip, rather than booking with United's or Air Canada's own programs.
A round-trip business class/domestic first class award using Singapore KrisFlyer miles would require just 52,000 miles. With United MileagePlus and Air Canada Aeroplan, the same award would require up to 70,000 KrisFlyer miles one-way or 140,000 miles roundtrip.
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Redeem for flights between North America and Hawaii
With KrisFlyer, you can book awards between North America and Hawaii for 39,00 KrisFlyer miles roundtrip in economy class, or 78,000 miles in business. In all cases, these rates are lower than what partner airlines offer. And remember, you're cashing in your KrisFlyer miles to fly United or Air Canada, even though it's cheaper to book with Singapore Airlines.
You also can book direct flights to Hawaii on Alaska Airlines from select West Coast locations using as few as 13,500 KrisFlyer miles each way. While this redemption offers some of the best-value awards to Hawaii, it's tempered by the fact that you can't make connections (the flight must be direct). If your Alaska flight requires a connection, you'll get better value by redeeming for 17,500 miles each way on United.
Fly Singapore Airlines business class from the U.S. East Coast to Europe
One of the best ways to get from the U.S. to Europe in business class is by redeeming with Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer; prices in this sweet spot start at 81,000 miles. These flights are available from the U.S. East Coast and Houston to European destinations like Frankfurt, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland. You could spend as little as 25,000 KrisFlyer miles one-way in economy, also.
Fly business class from the U.S. West Coast to Asian hubs
Travelers coming from the West Coast are in luck, too, with sweet spot redemptions to several Asian hubs. Here's a look at some sample one-way pricing:
- Los Angeles or San Francisco to Tokyo or Seoul with Star Alliance airlines: 119,000 miles
- U.S. and Canada West Coast to Singapore with Singapore Airlines: 75,000 miles
- Los Angeles to Tokyo with Singapore Airlines: 73,000 miles
Book Star Alliance round-trip business class tickets to South America
The final sweet spot on our list is round-trip Star Alliance business class tickets to South America from the U.S. You can book this route for just 130,000 KrisFlyer Miles on a Star Alliance Airline like United Airlines, Air Canada, Copa, or Avianca.
How To Earn Singapore KrisFlyer Miles
You can earn Singapore KrisFlyer miles in multiple ways. First, fly Singapore Airlines flights or Star Alliance partner airlines and credit your flight to KrisFlyer.
You also can transfer numerous types of points to Singapore KrisFlyer:
That means cards like the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card, Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, Citi Premier® Card, and The Platinum Card® from American Express all can be used to accrue KrisFlyer miles.
Bottom Line
These are five attractive sweet spots in Singapore's award chart. Keep in mind that Singapore is a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, Citi ThankYou Rewards, and Marriott Bonvoy Points, so even if you have never flown Singapore Airlines before, you likely have easy access to plenty of Singapore KrisFlyer Miles.
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Thanks for your ideas. I’m trying to figure out how to use 18,250 Singapore miles before they expire.
That should cover you for a domestic ticket on United (at least one-way). If you can top up with transferrable points, you could do a RT for 25k.
Biz class one way should be 20K using Singapore on UA.