Singapore KrisFlyer Devalues Miles, Adds Dynamic Award Option

Great job resisting in this post to talk about how Atmos' comparatively greatness compared to Krisflyer! 😉

If someone's income and spending . . . and, thus, point-earning capability . . . increased by 15 or 20 percent over the past 5 years, it's a wash. Sure, no one wants to see point prices increase but our earning capability is likely increasing at the same rate. As are SUBs.

Agree with Jay..enough of Atmos already.

@ tom -- So you're complaining about Atmos Rewards posts in a post that... doesn't mention Atmos Rewards? How about commenting positively on the things you do enjoy, rather than bringing up things that aren't even mentioned?

Ben, to satisfy your critics, can you add how I can book Singapore flights using my Atmos, and compare the pricing?

WE NEED MORE ATMOS STORIES!!!! ALASKA IS OUR SAVIOR!!!!

If you see an Atmos article, just skip over it. If you can't do that, read a different blog. FM has had robust coverage of Atmos -- are you over there complaining as well?

Adolescent.

Yeah I feel the same way. Inflation continues in terms of point stocks (I can, with reasonable ease, generate 1,000,000+ points in a year and that was NOT the case 15 years ago) so it follows that programs would inflate as well

It's pretty obvious why they're trying out dynamic award pricing. They want to see whether the return is better than fixed award pricing. They see everyone else doing it and figure it must be lucrative for other airlines, so they'd better keep up. Being SQ, they are also cautious and don't want to rock the boat too much, so they introduce it as a second redemption option - at first. If it's a financial success for them, they'll eliminate fixed award pricing entirely.

Don’t doubt the best airlines in the world with the best strategy planning. Unlike emirates and Qatar who is terribly lousy at the services + their rewards program:

In all honesty, the Atmos angle for SQ is an interesting one - both for crediting paid SQ flights (especially PY) to Atmos and possibly getting status, as well as the comparative miles required on the redemption side.

It’s depressing the past few years to see every program just keeps on devaluing their offerings.

The only thing that doesn’t devalue is the FXIAX that I get with my 2% Fidelity Visa deposits. :/

Ugh, it's times like these I wish the comments section was GIF supporting. Homer Simpson and *scattered boos* seems appropriate here

While Ben has published a plethora of articles regarding Atmos he's been covering other subjects as well. Furthermore many readers are interested in the new Atmos program and I'm sure the appreciate the comprehensive analysis. I'm impressed by the volume of well written posts Ben publishes and even if I don't agree 100% with all his analysis I appreciate his efforts and the quality of his work. And yeah, Atmos is superior to Kris flyer 😉

Unfortunately, one of the worst frequent flyer programs out there, just got even more terrible. 🙁

Sad for such a great airline. They're almost at SkyMiles-level terrible.

And of course, they still don't have a way for non-Elites to prevent their miles from expiring with continued program use. Ugh.

Maybe they won't remove fixed entirely, but I can definitely see Advantage evolving into being dynamic pricing.

Only if, at the same time, they bumped your balance by 15-20 %. Which of course they don't. And also at the same time increased earn rates on flights flown at the same per centage. Which of course they don't. And, for that matter, increased the earn rate of purchase programs (buying points). Which of course they don't.

Seconded, Krisflyer is one of the worst frequent flier programs.

And You literally contribute nothing. Buzz OFF

For JFK to Singapore business class the lowest mileage redemption was 165 k miles and they were always waitlisted.

So you have to pay 206,500 now This is from searching now up to a year out. Before it was approx 110k or 147 k !

Hopefully they open up award availability !