Singapore Airlines will devalue its award prices November 1. They’re also introducing some credit towards elite status for spending through its partners. The award price changes are in many but not all cases modest – and meaningful for a program whose redemptions are already expensive.

• Chase, American Express, Citibank and Capital One points all transfer to Singapore Airlines Krisflyer so this is relevant for American frequent flyers.

• I rarely consider them for redemption on Star Alliance partner airlines, however I do look at them for access to Singapore Airlines premium cabin flights because their members get much better inventory than partners do. You’ll rarely see a premium cabin Singapore Airlines award using United miles, but they are often very available in business class using their own KrisFlyer miles.

• Air Canada Aeroplan offers a middle ground, with good access – but not as much as KrisFlyer members receive – and usually at better pricing.

Award Chart Devaluation November 1

Effective November 1, 2025, saver award prices for Singapore Airlines flights mostly increase. Flights between Singapore and Southwest Pacific do drop in coach about 5% while business and first class goes up 5%. For Europe and the U.S. you don’t even get the coach reduction – prices go about 5% higher in all cabins.

Things are much worse to Africa and Middle East with coach awards going up 10%, business 20% and first 10%.

Meanwhile higherpriced ‘Advantage’ awards go up 10% – 15% across all cabins and zones, except for zone 10 which goes up 5% in coach, 18% in business and 15% in first.

Star Alliance awards awards are also going up and so do upgrade prices. And new prices lock in for all tickets issued after October 31, 2025. That includes waitlists that aren’t ticketed by that date, however date changes on existing awards that do not involve a reprice or route/cabin/award-type changes will keep pre-existing pricing.

New Dynamic Award Prices

An additional, dynamically priced redemption option is being introduced to offer additional availability. This does not replace saver and advantage awards (although since those are capacity controlled we don’t know this will remain true, those could become less available). It’s spending miles as a currency to buy seats based on current pricing.

Date changes are complimentary, there’s a $50 redeposit fee, and and one stopover is permitted per one-way.

Earn Status From Non-Flight Spend

Singapore KrisFlyer status will introduce 1 elite mile per S$1 spent on Kris+, KrisShop, and Pelago with annual caps for non-flight accrual set at 5,000 for Silver and 10,000 for Gold.

PPS Club will introduce 1 PPS Value per S$3 on the same channels with annual caps of 2,500 PPS Value (PPS Club), 5,000 (Solitaire PPS).

How Significant Are These Changes?

Ultimately the devaluations are modest, for instance Singapore to London Heathrow business class goes from 103,500 points to 108,500 and Singapore New York JFK goes from 111,500 to 117,000 in business class. But these awards were expensive to begin with!