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Yesterday, I highlighted plentiful business class award space to Europe in summer 2024. Today, View from the Wing highlights an alert from The Points Analyst with another option for business class awards to Europe within the next few months that I’ve noticed is very frequently available within a few months of departure: Singapore Airlines has plentiful business class award space on its New York JFK to Frankfurt route. You can book this space for just 60,000 Air Canada Aeroplan points each way, which is a very good deal.
The Deal
- Singapore Airlines has excellent award availability on its New York JFK to Frankfurt, Germany route for multiple passengers in business class. This space is available via:
- Singapore Krisflyer for 81,000 miles each way
- Air Canada Aeroplan for 60,000 miles each way (or more if you connect far beyond Frankfurt)
- Note that there are no surcharges via either program
Quick Thoughts
The screen shot above shows space for nine passengers the day before Thanksgiving. Space that week has existed for a long time as I’ve been hunting out one more seat on the TAP Air Portugal JFK-Lisbon route and have been seeing connecting itineraries through Frankfurt frequently as I searched these past couple of months.
Right now, we’re seeing fairly plentiful availability in November, December, and the first couple of months of 2024.
As you can see above, Air Canada Aeroplan charges 60K points one-way for these awards if you’re only flying that sector (or 74K for a fully flexible / refundable award). You could alternatively book via Singapore Krisflyer for 81K per passenger, but only for up to 6 passengers on a booking and given the higher price (and fee for changes / cancellations), it probably wouldn’t make sense to book via Krisflyer.
Also keep in mind that you should be able to book connections beyond Frankfurt if you’re looking to go elsewhere within Europe — Lufthansa gives you quite a bit of connectivity from there and/or connect to the myriad of other Aeroplan partners in Europe to get wherever you want to go, whether within Europe or beyond — just be aware that it’ll cost you more miles when you add more distance.
Personally, I love Singapore Airlines business class. The main drawback is that you can’t recline all the way to a flat position in the seat — going fully flat means folding the seatback down, so it lacks some of the fine-tuning capability that you get with other seats. However, I find Singapore’s seat to be the among the most comfortable and luxurious in business class. And service is always (at least in my opinion) impeccable. I flew this route this past summer with my family and we loved it.
For those unfamiliar, the most notable thing here is the ability to book via Air Canada Aeroplan. Singapore does not typically release its business class space for partner bookings. Air Canada seems to have access that most partners do not, which makes for a better price in business and a redemption that you can’t otherwise get without paying 81,000 miles one-way. And, again, with the ability to mix and match on an Aeroplan redemption, you can use this as part of a more complicated itinerary if you like.
If you’re not looking to travel in the next couple of months, it’s worth keeping an eye on space on this route as I’ve found it pretty consistently available in my anecdotal close-in searches for award space to Europe.
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Sadly no longer on the A380.
Link for the “Yesterday, I highlighted plentiful business class award space to Europe in summer 2024” post? Not seeing anything with a title like that.
I’ve flown Singapore’s business class with my family of three Newark to Singapore nonstop and I have to say it was the best business seat I’ve sat in. We flew Qatar Qsuite on the way back which means we flew the regular Biz seats and their Qsuite Doha to Philly. Loved their dine on demand and the privacy we created with their double bed. On the other hand I found the seats very uncomfortable. Emirates Biz had a much better seat than Qatar.
So, as Nick said, it’s all relative to the individual on what they believe or find is the best out there.
I’ll fly Singapore Airlines in an heartbeat.
Singapore’s J seat is awful. Don’t go out of your way to fly them, you’ll be disappointed. F or nothing.
Just goes to show the variance in opinions. I think their J seat is so good that I think it’s not worth paying more to fly first with them *unless* it’s in their suites. Their “normal” 777 first class really doesn’t feel enough different to me to make it worth paying more (and yes, I’ve flown both).
I’m not comparing their J seat to their F seat, I’m comparing it to all other non-mainlaind-China Asian carriers. Their J seat is the absolute worst compared with the competition. Whose is worse? Look at the pic, other seat back right in front of you, and the gad awful tiny side footwell. Their service is good, but not good enough to overcome being the worst in the most important category. Yeah you’re talking transatlantic, but still, so many better products.