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TPG contributor Jason Steele delves deeper into Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program to shed more light on taxes and fees on partner awards, enterprise car rental coupons specials so you can make the best decision when deciding if this program makes the most sense for your needs
Last week, Chase announced that the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program will become its 11th transfer partner, and the 6th airline partner. In fact, Singapore is now just the second airline (after British Airways) enterprise car rental coupons specials that is a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, and  Starwood Preferred Guest programs.
Singapore Airlines is notoriously stingy with the number of award seats on its own flights that it releases to partners, but it releases far more award seats to travelers redeeming miles from the KrisFlyer program. That said, the KrisFlyer program can also be useful for redemptions enterprise car rental coupons specials on its 25 Star Alliance partners and 6 other airline partners. While Star Alliance was already accessible to Ultimate Rewards members via United Airlines, the new partnership with Singapore  opens up other booking options .
One for flights on Star Alliance carriers only or in combination with flights operated by Singapore/SilkAir . This chart also applies to awards on US Airways and TAM, which are not part of Star Alliance.
Four separate enterprise car rental coupons specials non-alliance enterprise car rental coupons specials partner award charts for  Virgin America enterprise car rental coupons specials , Virgin Australia , Virgin Atlantic , and Air India . Presumably the separate Air India chart will disappear if and when the carrier joins Star Alliance in July as scheduled.
Awards on Singapore and SilkAir can be booked online, and travelers even receive a 15% mileage discount for doing so. Nevertheless, any award that requires use of a partner airline must be booked by calling Singapore. Fortunately, their U.S. call center is open 24 hours a day and they do not charge telephone booking fees. Their number is (213) 404-0301 . I made several calls to this number, all of which were answered quickly and professionally. Just be advised that when their representatives quote prices in dollars, they are referring to Singapore dollars (which are presently worth about 80 cents).
Most partners enterprise car rental coupons specials flights can be combined.  You can combine Singapore/SilkAir flights with flights from other Star Alliance carriers, but flights on Virgin enterprise car rental coupons specials Australia, Virgin America, and Virgin Atlantic must be ticketed separately in accordance with their own award charts. The same is true of Air India until they join Star Alliance later this summer.
No backtracking.  Singapore airline has a no-backtracking rule that doesn t seem to be very specific. The terms and conditions simply say that Travel must be made via the most direct route. enterprise car rental coupons specials Clearly one can t backtrack across regions, as most airlines forbid on award tickets, but there are reports enterprise car rental coupons specials that even small backtracking segments are not permitted.
enterprise car rental coupons specials One free stopover is permitted on round-trip awards, but three additional stopovers can be purchased for $100 each (other enterprise car rental coupons specials than flights within Europe, or within/between the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands). Stopovers are defined as any layover over 24 hours, or anything over 4 hours within or between the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico or U.S. Virgin Islands. There are no free stopovers on one-way awards.
As is the case with most foreign carriers, Singapore imposes fuel surcharges on most award tickets. Fuel surcharges are added to its own flights enterprise car rental coupons specials and to most partner awards where carriers include those in their ticket prices. Current exceptions include flights operated by:
As you can see, these fuel surcharges are substantial, but LOT Polish typically charges the least among all European carriers. Some bloggers have reported that Singapore will not impose fuel surcharges on any United flights, but that is not the case according to the Singapore representatives I spoke to.
I also asked the Singapore Airlines call center to search for flights on Virgin America, which operates its own fare-based award travel redemption system. In general, enterprise car rental coupons specials I found excellent enterprise car rental coupons specials availability relative to the meager award space dolled out by United, Delta, US Airways, and American Airlines enterprise car rental coupons specials on their domestic flights.
North American flights in business and first class.  Flights within the United enterprise car rental coupons specials States and Canada (excluding enterprise car rental coupons specials Hawaii) are priced at 40,000 for first class on a two-class flight or business on a three-class flight. 60,000 miles are needed for a first class award on a three-class flight. In contrast, United charges 50,000 and 70,000 miles, respectively.
Flights within Hawaii/Central America .  Singapore s chart considers Hawaii and Central America to be within the same zone, which also includes Bermuda, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Flights within this region are 35,000 miles for economy and 60,000 miles for business. Conceivably, you could fly round-trip from Aruba to Hawaii on one award for as little as 35,000 miles. To take advantage of this, you might pre-position yourself in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America or Bermuda before beginning an award to Hawaii, with a stopover in your home city in each direction (the second stop-over will cost $100), and an open-jaw return to another destination within the Central America/Hawaii zone (not including Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands). It would take a lot of planning, but you should be able to get two additional one-way tickets to Bermuda, Central America, or the Caribbean enterprise car rental coupons specials for the same number of miles as a simple enterprise car rental coupons specials Hawaii award, plus an additional $100. This would seem to work best if you live in a United or Air Canada hub, or any city from which those partners serve Hawaii.
With routine devaluations occurring across much of the points and miles world, it s encouraging to see value being added to some programs. The options presented above are just some of the many ways you can make use of the Krisflyer program and its new partnership with Chase Ultimate Rewards.
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They do, but since you only get one SIN dollar per mile, you are only getting 0.8 cents in value. enterprise car rental coupons specials You would be far better off using the Chase Ultimate Rewards travel portal and getting 1.25 cents per mile as well as additional mileage from the travel itself.
Brian Are you sure the redemption on Virgin America enterprise car rental coupons specials is 40k roundtrip in first for a transcontinental flight? Please see this award chart on Singapore s website. Would suggest that redemption is actually 170k roundtrip!!!
I found KrisFlyer awards have a maximum of 6 segments. So I d have to do something enterprise car rental coupons specials like CUN-IAH-OMA(Stopover)-DEN-HNL-DEN(Stopover *Find another way to go DEN-OMA-DEN*)-Somewhere in the Carribbean/Mexico.
I ve been trying to decide between Bermuda and Hawaii because I have family in both so being able to get to both on one ticket enterprise car rental coupons specials would be amazing. I m based in New York so what would be the best way to do this? Preferably I d go to Hawaii first so NY-HI-BDA-NY. Any recommendations? Thanks so much!
Wondering the same thing. Planning to take the A380 from JFK-FRA and get the discount, but I forgo the free stopover and OJ in order to come back via CDG or LHR. Gonna have to bite the bullet and not get the discounted redemption, but at least all segments will still be 1st class, so I m not complaining.
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