(Edit: Jimmy on the comments spotted something different between this promotion and the previous ones we’ve seen. Previous promotions allowed you to cancel completely unused tickets for a miles refund. The T&C of this promotion do not. Something to be aware of)
Krisflyer has been offering various discounted award redemptions on SQ and MI flights recently. Here are the recent promotions that we’ve had
May 2015: 50% off SQ and MI economy awards
Feb 2016: 30% off SQ and MI economy awards
July 2016: 50% off MI economy awards
October 2016: 50% off MI economy awards
November 2016: ย 30% off SQ premium economy and economy awardsย
June 2017: 50% off MI business and economy awards
Although these promotions were certainly welcome, they never covered SQ Business Class. At most they’d cover MI J, and there was one promotion for SQ PY, but SQ J was never discounted.
Till now.
SQ has started offering “Krisflyer Monthly Redemption Deals”. The name of the promotion gets me excited because it implies we’ll see new deals every month.
The catch is that you have to travel within the next month- so for the current promotion you have to book between now and 31 August and travel between 1-30 Sept (both dates included). I imagine the same convention will be followed on subsequent deals.
If you have that kind of flexibility, then there are some interesting deals to be had. You can by all means go and look for economy deals, but I wanted to focus on the business class deals on offer this time round.
Here’s the list:
Of all these flights, I’d encourage you to look at the following if you wanted to try SQ‘s newest business class.ย These routesย reliablyย have SQ’s 2013 Business Class seat.
- SQ494/495 to Dubai (77W)
- SQ422/423 to Mumbai (A350)
- SQ828/827 to Shanghai (77W)
- SQ806/801 to Beijing (77W)
The other catch is that you need to get your award ticketed before 31 August. Therefore, if you see that saver awards are on waitlist, you’ll need to either find a new date or waitlist yourself and bug them like crazy to clear the waitlist. To be absolutely clear, if your award waitlist clears after 31 August, notwithstanding the fact you’re travelling between 1-30 Sept, you will be paying the non-discounted rate.
So kudos to SQ for starting these promotions, and let’s hope we see other long haul destinations added for subsequent promotions.
Edit: And, of course, thanks to Chelsea who pointed this sale out to me. I’d better add myself back to SQ’s mailing list
Finally KF is catching up with other FFP.
Hopefully we will see more J long haul months to come.
And of course instant confirmable seats.
while we’re dreaming I’d also like more benefits for KF elite gold members
Be aware of the restriction as stated in the T&C
“Any change is strictly not permitted for bookings made under this promotion. Cancellation is also not permitted for partially unused or totally unused tickets.”
Thanks for pointing that out.
Slightly OT, is Mumbai worth visiting? The Mumbai redemption deal in Business in the new A350 looks appetising…
having lived in BOM for just under 2 years I can tell you it’s not much of a tourism hotspot. it’s mostly a business city, and attractions are few and far between. but you could use it as a staging area to go to Goa, for example, which is just a short flight away.
this is standard boilerplate on the 30% off krisflyer promos that SQ has been having recently but i’ve never taken advantage of any of them before so I can’t say how it works in practice. I know that regular KF award tickets can have their dates freely changed within a 1 year period of issuance. what this term seems to suggest is that this flexibility does not extend to the 30% off tickets, and if you want to change date you will have to cancel the ticket (presumably incurring the $15/30 cancellation fee) and rebook another one. anyone tried before?
No aaron, the second statement of that T&C point voiding the right of cancelling the ticket.
good spot! I went to look at past discounted KF promos and found the equivalent term (from the past 4 promos) Any change is strictly not permitted for bookings made under this promotion. Cancellation is also not permitted for partially used tickets. (emphasis mine) it seems this time they have added the clause that you can’t cancel even on a completely unused ticket. now this is interesting because you have effectively created saver (-) [the cheaper 30% off awards that can’t be changed] and saver (+) [the regular full priced saver awards that can be changed]. The problem is you… Read more »
Is it just me? I couldn’t book the promo online last night as well as this morning … did everything online as per normal and reached the payment page, but after keying in the OTP, an error message showed (below). I called Kris Flyer to report this but they said they couldn’t help me make the booking as it was a discounted rate. They just said try again … I tried another 3 times and same result each time even with 3 different credit cards ๐ #fakepromo? An error has occurred. Due to a technical error, we cannot issue your… Read more »
Note that SQ807 PEK-SIN is operated using an A380. The 77W flight is SQ801 instead, which leaves PEK at midnight.
that’s so weird. i saw sq806 as 77w so assumed sq807, the return, would be a 77w as well. but you’re right, it’s an a380.
Confirmed that no cancellation and date changes permitted. I’d booked a couple of extra tickets with the fare available, but when I called to cancel these, was told no cancellation or date changes allowed at all!
man that is strict. so this is definitely unlike the previous award sales we saw where you could cancel but not change. hopefully you’ll be able to use your tickets?
this also raises the issue- what happens if you want to fly during the promotional period to one of these destinations but are willing to pay 30% more for the flexibility of a “regular” award ticket? can you ask the CSO not to apply the 30% off?
Yes you may, since this option is not offered online. I used to work in SQ call centre .