Wide Open Transatlantic Business Class Awards For Whole Year, Up To 6 People

by Gary Leff

Singapore Airlines is one of the world’s best carriers. They don’t just fly to Singapore – they also operate ‘fifth freedom’ routes between the U.S. and Europe. Right now their New York JFK – Frankfurt flight has up to 6 business class award seats available most dates over the next year.

It’s easy to get the miles needed to book these award seats, because points from Chase, American Express, Citibank and Capital One transfer to the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program. While you can’t book Singapore Airlines long haul business class flights using miles in a partner program like United MileagePlus, you can move points to Singapore Airlines and book these seats online. Straight to the Points sent out a deal alert on this opportunity.

Here’s current availability for four business class award seats in August on the route. Literally every day of the month there are at least four available:

Award cost:

  • Singapore Airlines charges 81,000 miles each way per person for business class awards on this route, and there are no fuel surcharges. Taxes are about $30 for the U.S. departure and $130 for the European departure.

  • If you book this month for travel in November this route is 30% off (with some dates in the first week of the month blacked out for this discount).

If you want to include connecting flights you can do so on Star Alliance airlines you can do so using Singapore’s Star Alliance award chart.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  2. It’s just so expensive. 81.000 miles + $131 for FRA-JFK is a lot. Especially since you can often get FRA-JFK fares in Business for around $1200 round trip (not on SQ but instead BA/AY/AF/KL/…)

  3. @ Dave — Yeah, it is expensive. I am tempted to book some, but the pricing had gotten kinda steep.

  4. It IS expensive, but when you factor in such limited availability/even more insane prices for other redemptions, it doesn’t seem as bad.

    I’m doing JFK-FRA-FCO in two weeks, booked it a week ago. Tracked AA/BA/IB, AF/KLM, UA, etc. all for months. The SQ redemption was by far the best value for my dates (and +/- 1 days). AA wanted 180k, then sold out two months ago. AF/KLM 650k, then reduced to 220k. It’s just a bloodbath right now trying to get a single J/F redemption to Europe let alone for 6 (see OMAAT’s article from the other day)

  5. @ Dave — In fact, I just completed a search for the exact dates I would book and SQ is asking $2,490 per person for business class roundtrip. As an AS 75k, this would earn 25,064 AS miles, worth about $350, for a net price of about $2,140. Using SQ miles, the cost is 162,000 + $125 roundtrip, yielding a value of 1.244 cp SQ mile. That is a mediocre to poor redemption. I would rather save those miles for SQ First.

  6. @ Gary — Whoa, wait. You really should point out that if you have an AMEX business platinum card and were going to transfer AMEX points to make this SQ booking that it would be a MUCH better deal to just use AMEX pay with points. For my dates, the AMEX price is 249,788 points + $0 roundtrip. After the 35% points rebate, the cost is 162,362, effectively the same as the cost to book with SQ miles. BUT, you avoid the $125 in taxes AND earn the RDM/EQM from AS or the Star Alliance carrier of your choice. Using this method, you can travel any day you please (of course, the cash price will vary).

  8. @ Gary — Then it’s definitely a great deal if you need to travel those dates! Always good to investigate your options.

  9. Having just completed 2 longhauls in SQ Business, I would not recommend you put yourselves out expecting something exceptional by booking Singapore Airlines.
    It is a pale imitation of its pre-pandemic self, giving off the vibe that its cutbacks in nearly everything on the ground and in the air are essential for its very survival. (Are they?)
    Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected to see SQ relegated to the also-rans!
    Shocked and disappointed.

  10. @305 – Use Asiana miles, 40K OW to/from the US – EU. I do it all the time. Or get Air France J class with Virgin….there are lots of ways….

  11. Just FYI for everyone…..you don’t redeem points on SQ to get the largest cents per point….use ANA/Virgin for that. You fly SQ for the experience.

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