brokenrecord From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 772 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2179 times:
Fellow a.nutters, I am planning a mileage burn trip as I've recently ended about 10 years straight of business travel and still have 260,000 miles in my US Airways account. I want to fly the SQ A388 in F, the record-holding longest flight (SQ21), and also hopefully fly a new airline or two in Star, but I have to end up with it as a return flight in order for it to only cost me 180,000 miles.
So far, the plan is this:
Leg 1: IAD-EWR on UA
Leg 2. EWR-SIN on SQ21
Leg 3: SIN-? on the longest A388 leg I can find (I would think it would be the SIN-LAX via NRT flight)
Leg 4: ?-IAD on a different Star airline (s)
In the Star Alliance, I've flown:
ANA
Air Canada
Austrian
Egyptair
Lufthansa
SAS
Singapore
Swiss
Turkish
United
US Airways
So out of the remaining 16 airlines, I could feasibly pick up 2-3 more on my return leg as several of them are APAC:
Air China
Asiana
Shenzhen
Air New Zealand
Thai
The main things I need help with is finding the longest flight on the A388 and opinions on which of the other APAC Star airlines have F class that's worth my VERY hard-earned miles. I'm trying to use the Star Alliance flight search, but it's all route-based, not aircraft.
brokenrecord From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 772 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2121 times:
Quoting spiritair97 (Reply 1):
I think SIN-FRA is right up there. You could go SIN-FRA-IAD on the a388 and the 748i!
That would be awesome, except I think with my other legs (particularly SQ21) they would charge me differently because I continued the same direction rather than returning. Perhaps I could go SIN-FRA on the A388 and then return to somewhere else in Asia via another airline in order to get back to IAD?
EDIT: In checking Star's site, SQ operates the 773ER for both SQ326 and SQ26 SIN-FRA.
LHRBFSTrident From UK - Northern Ireland, joined Nov 2006, 629 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (5 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1943 times:
I hope you CAN do it, but I've always read on various sites (e.g. ANA Star Alliance mileage award portal) that SQ restricts mileage awards in F and J on A380 and 77W aircraft - that's to say they don't offer mileage redemption seats in those cabins on those aircraft.
There was 1 exception to that earlier this year when suddenly SQ unexpectedly released a whole bunch of premium award space, but I can't remember if it was due to an IT issue or some tactical move in relation to its Star membership (FTalk.com)
Next up: LAX-LHR NZ002 Y SkyCouch! LHR-LAX NZ001 Y
airbazar From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 6890 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (5 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1832 times:
SIN-LHR is SQ's longest A380 route. Any SIN-Europe A380 route is longer than NRT-LAX. If you're counting the 2 legs of SIN-NRT-LAX as a route then SIN-FRA-JFK is even longer, but you wouldn't be able to fly a new carriers
BigMac From Suriname, joined Nov 2003, 317 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (5 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1611 times:
Quoting brokenrecord (Thread starter): still have 260,000 miles in my US Airways account. I want to fly the SQ A388 in F, the record-holding longest flight (SQ21)
brokenrecord, not to crush "your dreams" but redeeming US Airways miles on SQ in F will not be possible (applies to Swiss and Lufthansa as well). If you want to fly F using US Airways miles you will be limited to Thai, Asiana, Air China, United, and ANA (very difficult) among the majors..
brokenrecord From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 772 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1540 times:
Quoting UALWN (Reply 7): I'm booked on SQ 26 FRA-JFK for August 2013, and it sure shows an A388.
Interesting. I guess I just need to call.
Quoting BigMac (Reply 9): brokenrecord, not to crush "your dreams" but redeeming US Airways miles on SQ in F will not be possible (applies to Swiss and Lufthansa as well). If you want to fly F using US Airways miles you will be limited to Thai, Asiana, Air China, United, and ANA (very difficult) among the majors..
Unless something's changed since 2010, I'd have to respectfully disagree. I used US miles to fly LH in F on DXB-FRA, stopover to visit friends, then FRA-ORD, stopover, ORD-MUC-DXB in August 2010.
The mileage redemption guide also shows no restrictions other than a few of the non-Star carrier partners such as QR, VS, and RJ.
debonair From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2098 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (5 months 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1534 times:
Quoting brokenrecord (Reply 2): Perhaps I could go SIN-FRA on the A388 and then return to somewhere else in Asia via another airline in order to get back to IAD?
For sure THAI's brand new A380 in F from FRA to BKK connecting to HKG with ETHIOPIAN's B767 and from HKG (via PEK/visa friendly!) with AirChina's new F Class to LAX or JFK or SFO? Have a look:
brokenrecord From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 772 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (5 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 1500 times:
Quoting debonair (Reply 11): For sure THAI's brand new A380 in F from FRA to BKK connecting to HKG with ETHIOPIAN's B767 and from HKG (via PEK/visa friendly!) with AirChina's new F Class to LAX or JFK or SFO?
Now that would be a great use of miles! That would also get me some new airports along with new airlines.
The new Air China F seats look quite nice, but I can't seem to find images of the Thai Royal First on their A388. Is it suite-style like SQ and EK? I also hadn't thought about throwing Ethiopian in there. Is the leg from BKK-HKG bookable on its own? I assume it's part of BKK-ADD.
BigMac From Suriname, joined Nov 2003, 317 posts, RR: 11 Reply 13, posted (5 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1430 times:
Quoting brokenrecord (Reply 10): Unless something's changed since 2010, I'd have to respectfully disagree. I used US miles to fly LH in F on DXB-FRA, stopover to visit friends, then FRA-ORD, stopover, ORD-MUC-DXB in August 2010.
The mileage redemption guide also shows no restrictions other than a few of the non-Star carrier partners such as QR, VS, and RJ.
Indeed things have changed. Things slowly started to change about a year ago. By mid 2012 F redemptions on LH and LX were being blocked (there's nothing in writing).
Regarding SQ, only SQ's own Krisflyer members are able to redeem F awards (again, there's nothing in writing).
This leaves Thai, Asiana, Air China, United, and ANA (still hard to get though) for F redemptions...
I doubt you will get any mileage redemption on a Singapore Airlines A380 Suite. To my knowledge not even PPS Solitaires are able to do this unless they redeem 1 Million Miles or higher depending which route you want to fly.
I would advise you pay the cost of the ticket if you want to fly in a Singapore Airlines A380 Suite.
There too I doubt you will get a mileage redemption seat on that flight. It's an all-Business Class flight and it has regained in popularity since the end of flights was announced by Singapore Airlines.
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
brokenrecord From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 772 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (5 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1255 times:
Quoting BigMac (Reply 13): Indeed things have changed. Things slowly started to change about a year ago. By mid 2012 F redemptions on LH and LX were being blocked (there's nothing in writing).
Regarding SQ, only SQ's own Krisflyer members are able to redeem F awards (again, there's nothing in writing).
This leaves Thai, Asiana, Air China, United, and ANA (still hard to get though) for F redemptions...
That really sucks. I've flown United International First, and that would be a mileage waste in my book.
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 14): I would advise you pay the cost of the ticket if you want to fly in a Singapore Airlines A380 Suite.
Thanks for the advice, however, this is a thread about spending my miles not €10.000 or more. If I cannot spend my miles, I'll take it off the list.
Quoting debonair (Reply 15): But beware, it is only on selected flights- so you have to double check!
Is there a way to check which frames have been fitted? I would think that one of the US legs would have it.
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