Last week Singapore Airlines released a ton of award space to their Star Alliance partners as they switched over their reservations systems, and many of you were able to take advantage of that. While many of you wanted to fly Singapore Airlines Airbus 380 first class, that unfortunately isn't bookable on miles at the saver…
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Rats,I booked SIN-SYD instead of to Melbourne? Any odds of any A380 in late December?
I got it! My itin shows a schedule change and the class now shows "Business (R)" — I assume United's systems don't know what R class is.
Aargh! I'm on SQ237, so no dice unless SQ switches that to an A380 in the future as well.
It looks like Singapore will receive its last A380 next week and will be used in this route. So no more new A380 routes??
Im gonna be lucky since I'm based in Melbourne. Anyone else based in Melbourne or a Melburnian here?
@lucky On a contrary, when are you coming Down Under? Remember you & I had some great Aussie tweets few months back. Lol...
Woooohooooo!!!! Though there's no change on my online (SQ site) reservation yet, I'm extatic! The Mrs. and I aren't flying until mid-February - so I hope SQ doesn't change it back - but I can't wait!!!
@Ari I doubt SQ will change back to it's Boeing 777-300ER as they're focusing on the Kangaroo route heavily. Malaysia Airlines' Head of Social Media & Innovations just told me that their KUL-MEL route is awaiting official announcement & KUL-SYD route is on its way. It will be great to see a competitive market here.
Update: Though neither StarAlliance.com nor SQ's website are reflecting the change (at least not as of yet for my dates), my USAirways reservation page has changed my class of service on the MEL-SIN leg to "R" from "O." To say my wife and I are excited about 3C/D is an understatement!!!!
Wuhoo! Booked 2 seats for SIN-MEL flights for next May and bet on the morning flight and coming out a winner! Showing R class (Business) on United as well. Made me pause for a second but glad everyone else is seeing the same thing.
I'm showing Business (R) on United MEL-SIN SQ218...woo hoo!
One thing is that I can't get access to the seat map on singaporeair.com. Anyone else having this issue?
Now, how about they swap in an A380 for SQ1/2? 🙂
One more question: on my reservation page on United.com I'm seeing
"! There has been a schedule change to your reservation. Please see the change in red in Flight Details. "
and then blow the reservation:
"By selecting the Continue option, I acknowledge and accept the schedule change explained above. "
No issue accepting this right? I've managed to see the new flight on the A380 on Singapore.com and select seats. Don't want to ruin anything now!!
@Adam: I have the same problem and I was told by the Singapore Airlines agent that the eTicket has not yet been issued in SQ system and if it is not ticketed within the time limit, the reservation could be canceled. So I checked back with United agent and he said everything is fine. Does anyone know what is going on? All I can do now is to check my reservation now and then on Singaporeair.com. But so far it still says my SQ booking reference couldn't be found.
Lucky, on the SIN-SYD route do you think SQ would upgrade the 330 or the 777 to the 380?
@ Geoff -- There's a chance, though they're not taking delivery of many more Airbus 380s, so unless they take it off another route they'd have a hard time with the upgrade.
@ boxo -- Congrats!