Singapore Airlines and Virgin America recently began codesharing, and up until yesterday actually offered an innovative promotion whereby you could double dip and earn both Virgin America Elevate points and KrisFlyer miles for travel on one of their new codeshare flights.
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That being said, British Airways charges a $25 phone ticketing fee for Alaska bookings, while Singapore doesn’t.
Which I ask to be waived because you can't book AS on the BA website, which seems to have happened every time so far... 😉
so am I doing the math right here?
- a one way flight in VX First from JFK->SFO will cost me 85,000 KrisFlyer points (which i can "buy" with 85,000 Amex points)
- that same one-way VX First flight, if I redeem on Virgin's site, will cost me 113,907 points (or 227,814 Amex points with their 2:1 transfer ratio!)
yeow! that's crazy. especially when i can redeem 20,000 Amex Points for United PS Business Class or American Flagship business (via Singapore or British Airways, respectively).
Further to Brianna's point, how funny that HKG-SFO in SQ Suites is quite a bit cheaper (~70k) than SFO-JFK in Virgin America "First" (85k).
Terrible value it seems. I thought at first this was a r/t chart. Then we start talking. The only thing that might actually redeem this slightly is if it is last-seat availability like VXs own program.