It appears that the website now gives you the option of paying for whole or part of your flight with your hard-earned KrisFlyer miles. No need to worry about availability - if there's a seat for sale, you can redeem for it.
Well, the catch: the exchange rate, as you might expect, is eye-wateringly crap.
You get just over SGD 10 credit for every 1,000 miles redeemed. So, in order to redeem a simple SIN-HKG one-way in Y, it looks like the following:
No, I don't think I'll be rushing to do this anytime soon... Ironically, 65,000 miles is enough to redeem 2x F Saver on the same route.
PS. Bookings that have been part-paid with KF miles will apparently only earn miles with KF (i.e. can't credit to other Star partners), and will only earn the pro-rata amount of miles corresponding to the amount of cash paid. So, if I pay for this SIN-HKG with ~65,000 KrisFlyer miles, I get... zero miles!
Well, the catch: the exchange rate, as you might expect, is eye-wateringly crap.
You get just over SGD 10 credit for every 1,000 miles redeemed. So, in order to redeem a simple SIN-HKG one-way in Y, it looks like the following:
No, I don't think I'll be rushing to do this anytime soon... Ironically, 65,000 miles is enough to redeem 2x F Saver on the same route.
PS. Bookings that have been part-paid with KF miles will apparently only earn miles with KF (i.e. can't credit to other Star partners), and will only earn the pro-rata amount of miles corresponding to the amount of cash paid. So, if I pay for this SIN-HKG with ~65,000 KrisFlyer miles, I get... zero miles!
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