Seats.Aero now searches for Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer awards

With its powerful filters and lightning-fast search results, Seats.Aero has quickly become my go-to solution for painless award searching. 

This website has come a long way since it launched in 2022 (you know you’ve made it when Air Canada tries to shut you down!), but there’s always been one big drawback for someone based in Singapore: the lack of support for KrisFlyer.

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I’d asked about this numerous times, but was told that the Singapore Airlines website was “too complicated” for automated scraping, at least compared to other airlines out there. 

But exciting developments are afoot. Shortly after Roame (a competing award search tool) added support for KrisFlyer, Seats.Aero has added it too.

Seats.Aero now supports KrisFlyer award searching

Seats.Aero has always displayed Singapore Airlines award availability, but only the space released to partner programmes like United MileagePlus and Virgin Australia Velocity. This means it showed the awards that members of these programmes could book, and not the full range available to Singapore Airlines’ own KrisFlyer members. 

KrisFlyer members, however, have access to additional award space, including Advantage awards, which are not available to partners. This was not reflected on Seats.Aero— until now.

The Seats.Aero website has just been updated to add support for Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer. You can select this by clicking on Explore > Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer.

This shows you 60 days (free) or one year’s (Pro) worth of award seats for every route that Seats.Aero tracks.

You can also use the Search function to do a more targeted search for flights between two points, such as Singapore and Sydney. Remember to filter your results to KrisFlyer under “programs”.

Here’s a few observations I had.

Regular KrisFlyer award space only

Seats.Aero reflects the award space available to a regular, base-tier KrisFlyer member.

PPS or Solitaire PPS Club members have access to additional award inventory which will not be reflected on Seats.Aero. Therefore, they should take the results as a baseline— there could be more award seats than what’s shown here, but the only way to confirm it is by logging into your account and running a search yourself.

Promo, Saver and Advantage awards all listed

Seats.Aero will display both Saver and Advantage awards for Singapore Airlines flights. We can see this in the screenshot below, where SIN-SFO is available in Business Class for 107,000 miles (Business Saver) or 128,500 miles (Business Advantage). 

Seats.Aero will also find Promo (aka Spontaneous Escapes awards), which can be identified from their discounted pricing.

For example, I can see that there’s Spontaneous Escapes award space between Singapore and Beijing on 31 March 2025, identifiable by the discounted price of 15,050 and 24,150 miles (versus 21,500 and 34,500 miles respectively).

Selected routes only

At the moment, Seats.Aero only supports selected routes for KrisFlyer search, namely:

• ADL
• AKL
• AMS
• BCN
• BOM
• BRU
• CDG
• CPH
• DEL
• EWR
• FCO
• FRA
• HND
• ICN
• IST
• JFK
• JNB
• LAX
• LHR
• NRT
• MEL
• MUC
• PEK
• PER
• PVG
• SEA
• SFO
• SYD
• ZRH

Seat.Aero says we can expect to see additional routes added in due course.

Cached, not live!

One important thing to remember is that Seats.Aero shows cached award space, not live. It runs periodic searches and stores the results, which is how it’s able to display them so quickly. Therefore, there is a chance that Seats.Aero shows a result which you can’t replicate on the Singapore Airlines website. 

For what it’s worth, there is a column in the search results called “Last seen”. The more recent the result, the more likely it is to still be there.

What other programmes are supported?

Seats.Aero periodically polls the following airline frequent flyer programmes for award space.

With 18 different programmes, you’ll have extensive coverage of all three major alliances, as well as programme-specific partners (like FlyDubai with Aeroplan).

What does a Pro membership offer?

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Seats.Aero has a free version, but a Pro membership offers additional features such as:

• More filters for search results
• The ability to search for award space up to 365 days in advance
• The ability to add +/- 14, 28, 60 or 180 days to your search results
• Live update of results

Pro members can also request new routes to be tracked, join the Seats.Aero Discord channel, and don’t see any ads.

Pro memberships cost US$9.99 per month or US$99.99 per year.

Complete guide to Seats.Aero

I recently compiled a detailed guide to using Seats.Aero, including its awesome time-saving features like Explore, airport groups, filters and seat alerts. 

There’s just so many use cases for this.

• Finding elusive Japan Airlines or ANA First Class award seats
• Checking how likely your waitlist is to clear (by looking at flight loads)
• Create seat alerts to ping you once award seats open up 
• Get a complete list of destinations with award flights during your vacation dates

Be sure to check out the full details below!

Seats.Aero guide: Find award seats, the fast and painless way

Conclusion

Seats.Aero now supports KrisFlyer award searching, a feature that has long been on my wishlist. This allows you to check up to a year’s worth of award seats at a glance, rather than poking around in the dark. 

Of course, I completely understand there will be some out there who won’t like this development, insofar as it increases competition for already-scarce award seats. But like it or loathe it, it’s out in the wild already, so you might as well use it.